Jane Sterling
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Jane Sterling is a young, glamorous secretary-turned-wife of advertising executive Roger Sterling in the television series "Mad Men."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jane Sterling canonical | 1 |
| Margaret "Margie" Sterling | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11344103 — 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: Jane Sterling Context triple: [Roger Sterling, spouse, Jane Sterling]
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A.
Jan Sterling
Jan Sterling was an American film and stage actress best known for her hard-edged, often vulnerable roles in 1950s Hollywood dramas such as "Ace in the Hole" and "The High and the Mighty."
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B.
Diane Sterling
Diane Sterling is a recurring character in the TV series "NCIS," known as one of Leroy Jethro Gibbs' ex-wives and for her sharp, contentious yet humorous dynamic with him.
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C.
Stella Stevens
Stella Stevens was an American actress and model best known for her roles in 1960s and 1970s films and television, including prominent performances in major Hollywood productions.
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D.
Maria St. John Sheffield
Maria St. John Sheffield was the wife of American railroad executive and philanthropist Joseph E. Sheffield, associated with 19th-century New England society.
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E.
Jan Stevens
Jan Stevens is a composer best known for creating music for the television series "Scrubs."
- 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: Jane Sterling Target entity description: Jane Sterling is a young, glamorous secretary-turned-wife of advertising executive Roger Sterling in the television series "Mad Men."
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A.
Jan Sterling
Jan Sterling was an American film and stage actress best known for her hard-edged, often vulnerable roles in 1950s Hollywood dramas such as "Ace in the Hole" and "The High and the Mighty."
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B.
Diane Sterling
Diane Sterling is a recurring character in the TV series "NCIS," known as one of Leroy Jethro Gibbs' ex-wives and for her sharp, contentious yet humorous dynamic with him.
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C.
Stella Stevens
Stella Stevens was an American actress and model best known for her roles in 1960s and 1970s films and television, including prominent performances in major Hollywood productions.
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D.
Maria St. John Sheffield
Maria St. John Sheffield was the wife of American railroad executive and philanthropist Joseph E. Sheffield, associated with 19th-century New England society.
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E.
Jan Stevens
Jan Stevens is a composer best known for creating music for the television series "Scrubs."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Mad Men ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | drama television series ⓘ |
| appearsOnNetwork | AMC ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| createdBy | Matthew Weiner ⓘ |
| employer |
Sterling Cooper
ⓘ
Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce ⓘ
linked to:
Sterling Cooper
|
| fictionalUniverse |
Mad Men universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Mad Men
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
glamorous
ⓘ
young ⓘ |
| hasRelationship | Roger Sterling ⓘ |
| hasRelationshipTypeWithRogerSterling | secretary-turned-wife ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| marriedTo | Roger Sterling ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| occupation | secretary ⓘ |
| partOfWork | ensemble cast of Mad Men ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Peyton List ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Roger Sterling ⓘ |
| worksFor | Roger Sterling ⓘ |
| worksInIndustry | advertising ⓘ |
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: Jane Sterling Description of subject: Jane Sterling is a young, glamorous secretary-turned-wife of advertising executive Roger Sterling in the television series "Mad Men."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Jane Sterling