Diane Alexander
E227869
Diane Alexander is an American former dancer and fashion designer best known as the ex-wife of singer Lionel Richie.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Diane Alexander canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T562443 — 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: Diane Alexander Context triple: [Lionel Richie, spouse, Diane Alexander]
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A.
Deborah Dudley
Deborah Dudley was a daughter of Thomas Dudley, the colonial governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a member of his prominent Puritan family in early New England.
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B.
Judith Kilpatrick
Judith Kilpatrick is a notable individual recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kilpatrick.
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C.
Diane Bemus Patrick
Diane Bemus Patrick is an American attorney and mental health advocate best known as the wife of former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick.
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D.
Cathy Ferguson
Cathy Ferguson is the wife of legendary Scottish football manager Sir Alex Ferguson and is known for her long-standing support throughout his career.
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E.
Janice Gordon
Janice Gordon is known as the first wife of American country music singer Kenny Rogers, whom he married before rising to fame.
- 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: Diane Alexander Target entity description: Diane Alexander is an American former dancer and fashion designer best known as the ex-wife of singer Lionel Richie.
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A.
Deborah Dudley
Deborah Dudley was a daughter of Thomas Dudley, the colonial governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and a member of his prominent Puritan family in early New England.
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B.
Judith Kilpatrick
Judith Kilpatrick is a notable individual recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Kilpatrick.
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C.
Diane Bemus Patrick
Diane Bemus Patrick is an American attorney and mental health advocate best known as the wife of former Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick.
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D.
Cathy Ferguson
Cathy Ferguson is the wife of legendary Scottish football manager Sir Alex Ferguson and is known for her long-standing support throughout his career.
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E.
Janice Gordon
Janice Gordon is known as the first wife of American country music singer Kenny Rogers, whom he married before rising to fame.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dancer
ⓘ
fashion designer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Miles Brockman Richie
ⓘ
Sofia Richie ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| marriageEndWithLionelRichie | 2004 ⓘ |
| marriageStartWithLionelRichie | 1995 ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the ex-wife of Lionel Richie ⓘ |
| notableWork | dance performance in Lionel Richie music videos ⓘ |
| occupation |
dancer
ⓘ
fashion designer ⓘ |
| parent |
Diane Alexander
ⓘ
Diane Alexander ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Diane Alexander
ⓘ
Lionel Richie ⓘ |
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: Diane Alexander Description of subject: Diane Alexander is an American former dancer and fashion designer best known as the ex-wife of singer Lionel Richie.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Diane Alexander
subject linked to:
Diane Alexander
subject linked to:
Diane Alexander