Kathy Bates
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Kathy Bates is an acclaimed American actress known for her powerful, often intense performances, including her Oscar-winning role in the psychological thriller "Misery."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kathy Bates canonical | 74 |
| Kathy Bates as Harriet Korn | 1 |
| Kathy Bates won the Academy Award for Best Actress for portraying Annie Wilkes | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1725231 — 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: Kathy Bates Context triple: [Misery, filmAdaptationLeadActor, Kathy Bates]
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A.
Glenn Close
Glenn Close is an acclaimed American actress known for her powerful performances in film, television, and theater, with multiple Academy Award and Tony Award nominations and wins.
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B.
Mary McDonnell
Mary McDonnell is an American actress known for her acclaimed film and television roles, including her work in dramas and science fiction such as "Dances with Wolves" and "Battlestar Galactica."
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C.
Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest is an acclaimed American actress known for her versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including multiple award-winning supporting roles.
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D.
Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft was an acclaimed American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in "The Miracle Worker" and her iconic role as Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate."
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E.
Linda Hunt
Linda Hunt is an American actress known for her Academy Award–winning role in "The Year of Living Dangerously" and for playing Hetty Lange on the television series "NCIS: Los Angeles."
- 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: Kathy Bates Target entity description: Kathy Bates is an acclaimed American actress known for her powerful, often intense performances, including her Oscar-winning role in the psychological thriller "Misery."
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A.
Glenn Close
Glenn Close is an acclaimed American actress known for her powerful performances in film, television, and theater, with multiple Academy Award and Tony Award nominations and wins.
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B.
Mary McDonnell
Mary McDonnell is an American actress known for her acclaimed film and television roles, including her work in dramas and science fiction such as "Dances with Wolves" and "Battlestar Galactica."
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C.
Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest is an acclaimed American actress known for her versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including multiple award-winning supporting roles.
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D.
Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft was an acclaimed American actress best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in "The Miracle Worker" and her iconic role as Mrs. Robinson in "The Graduate."
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E.
Linda Hunt
Linda Hunt is an American actress known for her Academy Award–winning role in "The Year of Living Dangerously" and for playing Hetty Lange on the television series "NCIS: Los Angeles."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Kathy Bates Description of subject: Kathy Bates is an acclaimed American actress known for her powerful, often intense performances, including her Oscar-winning role in the psychological thriller "Misery."
Referenced by (76)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
television series American Horror Story: Hotel
Annie Wilkes
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awardAssociation
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Kathy Bates won the Academy Award for Best Actress for portraying Annie Wilkes
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linked to: Kathy Bates
subject linked to:
Dolores Claiborne
subject linked to:
Richard Jewell
subject linked to:
"American Horror Story: Apocalypse" as herself
subject linked to:
Margaret "Molly" Brown
subject linked to:
Failure to Launch (2006 film)