Meera Syal
E191276
Meera Syal is a British comedian, writer, playwright, and actress known for her work on "Goodness Gracious Me," "The Kumars at No. 42," and numerous stage and screen roles.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Meera Syal canonical | 21 |
| Feroza Syal | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1678091 — 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: Meera Syal Context triple: [Yesterday, starring, Meera Syal]
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A.
Shivani Ghai
Shivani Ghai is a British actress known for her work in television, film, and theatre, including roles in series such as "EastEnders" and "Dominion."
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B.
Madhabi Mukherjee
Madhabi Mukherjee is a renowned Indian actress best known for her powerful performances in classic Bengali films, particularly in collaboration with director Satyajit Ray.
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C.
Beena Pal
Beena Pal was the wife of Indian nationalist leader and freedom fighter Bipin Chandra Pal.
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D.
Jyoti Bansal
Jyoti Bansal is an Indian-American entrepreneur and technologist best known for founding the application performance management company AppDynamics, which was acquired by Cisco for billions of dollars.
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E.
Ritu Banga
Ritu Banga is an Indian-American businesswoman and co-founder of the talent advisory firm Zoomdojo, known also as the wife of Mastercard executive and World Bank president Ajay Banga.
- 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: Meera Syal Target entity description: Meera Syal is a British comedian, writer, playwright, and actress known for her work on "Goodness Gracious Me," "The Kumars at No. 42," and numerous stage and screen roles.
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A.
Shivani Ghai
Shivani Ghai is a British actress known for her work in television, film, and theatre, including roles in series such as "EastEnders" and "Dominion."
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B.
Madhabi Mukherjee
Madhabi Mukherjee is a renowned Indian actress best known for her powerful performances in classic Bengali films, particularly in collaboration with director Satyajit Ray.
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C.
Beena Pal
Beena Pal was the wife of Indian nationalist leader and freedom fighter Bipin Chandra Pal.
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D.
Jyoti Bansal
Jyoti Bansal is an Indian-American entrepreneur and technologist best known for founding the application performance management company AppDynamics, which was acquired by Cisco for billions of dollars.
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E.
Ritu Banga
Ritu Banga is an Indian-American businesswoman and co-founder of the talent advisory firm Zoomdojo, known also as the wife of Mastercard executive and World Bank president Ajay Banga.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (67)
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: Meera Syal Description of subject: Meera Syal is a British comedian, writer, playwright, and actress known for her work on "Goodness Gracious Me," "The Kumars at No. 42," and numerous stage and screen roles.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Meera Syal