Elisabeth Shannon
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Elisabeth Shannon is a central character in the science fiction television series "Terra Nova," portrayed as a compassionate and resourceful physician and mother who joins a prehistoric colony to help build a new future for her family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elisabeth Shannon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10209682 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elisabeth Shannon Context triple: [Terra Nova, mainCharacter, Elisabeth Shannon]
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A.
Elizabeth Nourse
Elizabeth Nourse was an American realist painter known for her sensitive depictions of women and rural life, who built a successful career in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Eleanor Lanahan
Eleanor Lanahan is an American writer, artist, and filmmaker best known as the granddaughter of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and for her work chronicling their lives and legacy.
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C.
Elisabeth Scott
Elisabeth Scott was a pioneering British architect best known for designing the modernist Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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D.
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall is an American national security expert and government official who has held senior security and foreign policy roles in multiple U.S. administrations.
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E.
Elinor Junkin
Elinor Junkin was the first wife of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, who died young shortly after their marriage in the 1850s.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elisabeth Shannon Target entity description: Elisabeth Shannon is a central character in the science fiction television series "Terra Nova," portrayed as a compassionate and resourceful physician and mother who joins a prehistoric colony to help build a new future for her family.
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A.
Elizabeth Nourse
Elizabeth Nourse was an American realist painter known for her sensitive depictions of women and rural life, who built a successful career in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Eleanor Lanahan
Eleanor Lanahan is an American writer, artist, and filmmaker best known as the granddaughter of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald and for her work chronicling their lives and legacy.
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C.
Elisabeth Scott
Elisabeth Scott was a pioneering British architect best known for designing the modernist Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.
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D.
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall is an American national security expert and government official who has held senior security and foreign policy roles in multiple U.S. administrations.
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E.
Elinor Junkin
Elinor Junkin was the first wife of Confederate General Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, who died young shortly after their marriage in the 1850s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Terra Nova NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
compassionate
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resourceful ⓘ |
| child |
Josh Shannon
NERFINISHED
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Maddy Shannon NERFINISHED ⓘ Zoe Shannon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Craig Silverstein
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kelly Marcel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Shannon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Terra Nova universe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Terra Nova episode "Genesis" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Elisabeth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| joinsColony | Terra Nova colony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| loyalTo | Commander Nathaniel Taylor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| motivation | build a new future for her family ⓘ |
| nationalityInStory | American ⓘ |
| network | Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | physician ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Shelley Conn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| roleInStory | central character ⓘ |
| seriesDebutYear | 2011 ⓘ |
| seriesGenre | science fiction ⓘ |
| specialization | trauma medicine ⓘ |
| spouse | Jim Shannon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfColony | prehistoric Earth ⓘ |
| worksAt | Terra Nova medical center NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Elisabeth Shannon Description of subject: Elisabeth Shannon is a central character in the science fiction television series "Terra Nova," portrayed as a compassionate and resourceful physician and mother who joins a prehistoric colony to help build a new future for her family.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.