Paula Kent Meehan
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Paula Kent Meehan was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of the professional haircare company Redken.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Paula Kent Meehan canonical | 3 |
| Paula Kent Meehan Foundation | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1292614 — 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: Paula Kent Meehan Context triple: [Redken, foundedBy, Paula Kent Meehan]
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A.
Judith Kilpatrick
Judith Kilpatrick is a notable individual recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kilpatrick.
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B.
Bridget Moynahan
Bridget Moynahan is an American actress and model best known for her roles in films like "Coyote Ugly" and "I, Robot" and the TV series "Blue Bloods."
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C.
Christine Collins
Christine Collins was a real-life Los Angeles mother whose 1928 fight against police corruption and search for her missing son became the basis for the film "Changeling."
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D.
Elaine Ryan
Elaine Ryan was a screenwriter best known for her work on classic Hollywood films such as "Babes on Broadway."
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E.
Shannon Rubicam
Shannon Rubicam is an American singer-songwriter best known as one half of the pop duo Boy Meets Girl and for co-writing major hits for Whitney Houston, including "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)."
- 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: Paula Kent Meehan Target entity description: Paula Kent Meehan was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of the professional haircare company Redken.
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A.
Judith Kilpatrick
Judith Kilpatrick is a notable individual recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kilpatrick.
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B.
Bridget Moynahan
Bridget Moynahan is an American actress and model best known for her roles in films like "Coyote Ugly" and "I, Robot" and the TV series "Blue Bloods."
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C.
Christine Collins
Christine Collins was a real-life Los Angeles mother whose 1928 fight against police corruption and search for her missing son became the basis for the film "Changeling."
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D.
Elaine Ryan
Elaine Ryan was a screenwriter best known for her work on classic Hollywood films such as "Babes on Broadway."
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E.
Shannon Rubicam
Shannon Rubicam is an American singer-songwriter best known as one half of the pop duo Boy Meets Girl and for co-writing major hits for Whitney Houston, including "I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Paula Kent Meehan Description of subject: Paula Kent Meehan was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of the professional haircare company Redken.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Paula Kent Meehan