Millicent Simmonds
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Millicent Simmonds is a deaf American actress best known for her acclaimed performance in the horror film "A Quiet Place" and its sequel, where her authentic representation of deafness has been widely praised.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Millicent Simmonds canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1107840 — 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: Millicent Simmonds Context triple: [A Quiet Place, starring, Millicent Simmonds]
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A.
Katherine Hoult
Katherine Hoult is known as the spouse of Richard Mather.
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B.
Natalia Dyer
Natalia Dyer is an American actress best known for her role as Nancy Wheeler in the Netflix science fiction-horror series "Stranger Things."
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C.
Katie McGrath
Katie McGrath is an Irish public relations executive and television producer who co-founded the production company Bad Robot and is married to filmmaker J. J. Abrams.
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D.
Olivia Thirlby
Olivia Thirlby is an American actress known for her roles in films such as "Juno," "Dredd," and various independent and mainstream productions.
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E.
Lucy Boynton
Lucy Boynton is a British-American actress known for her roles in films such as "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Sing Street," as well as various television dramas.
- 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: Millicent Simmonds Target entity description: Millicent Simmonds is a deaf American actress best known for her acclaimed performance in the horror film "A Quiet Place" and its sequel, where her authentic representation of deafness has been widely praised.
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A.
Katherine Hoult
Katherine Hoult is known as the spouse of Richard Mather.
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B.
Natalia Dyer
Natalia Dyer is an American actress best known for her role as Nancy Wheeler in the Netflix science fiction-horror series "Stranger Things."
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C.
Katie McGrath
Katie McGrath is an Irish public relations executive and television producer who co-founded the production company Bad Robot and is married to filmmaker J. J. Abrams.
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D.
Olivia Thirlby
Olivia Thirlby is an American actress known for her roles in films such as "Juno," "Dredd," and various independent and mainstream productions.
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E.
Lucy Boynton
Lucy Boynton is a British-American actress known for her roles in films such as "Bohemian Rhapsody" and "Sing Street," as well as various television dramas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actress
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actress ⓘ film actress ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| advocatesFor |
accessibility for deaf people
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inclusion of deaf actors in mainstream media ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Critics’ Choice Movie Award nomination
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linked to:
Critics' Choice Movie Award
Saturn Award nomination ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | various film and television production companies ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White American ⓘ |
| familyName | Simmonds ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film acting
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television acting ⓘ |
| genre | horror film ⓘ |
| givenName | Millicent ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
child actor background
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representation of deaf culture in popular film ⓘ |
| hasDisability | deafness ⓘ |
| hasRole |
Regan Abbott
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Rose in Wonderstruck ⓘ
linked to:
Wonderstruck
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| hearingStatus | deaf ⓘ |
| knownFor |
authentic representation of deafness in film
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role of Regan Abbott in A Quiet Place ⓘ role of Regan Abbott in A Quiet Place Part II ⓘ |
| language | American Sign Language ⓘ |
| name | Millicent Simmonds ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Quiet Place
ⓘ
A Quiet Place Part II ⓘ A Quiet Place: Day One ⓘ Andi Mack ⓘ Close Enough ⓘ This Close ⓘ Wonderstruck ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| participatedIn | promotion of deaf representation in media ⓘ |
| partOf |
cast of A Quiet Place
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cast of A Quiet Place Part II ⓘ cast of Wonderstruck ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialRole | disability rights advocate ⓘ |
| usesCommunicationMethod | sign language ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Millicent Simmonds Description of subject: Millicent Simmonds is a deaf American actress best known for her acclaimed performance in the horror film "A Quiet Place" and its sequel, where her authentic representation of deafness has been widely praised.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Simmonds
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Simmonds
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Simmonds
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Close Enough
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Close Enough
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Close Enough