Linda Blair
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Linda Blair is an American actress best known for her iconic and chilling portrayal of the possessed child Regan MacNeil in the horror classic "The Exorcist."
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Linda Blair canonical | 25 |
| Linda Blair (The Exorcist II: The Heretic) | 1 |
| Linda Blair WorldHeart Foundation | 1 |
| Linda Blair as Chris Parker | 1 |
| Linda Denise Blair | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2173230 — 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: Linda Blair Context triple: [The Exorcist, stars, Linda Blair]
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A.
Kathleen Quinlan
Kathleen Quinlan is an American film and television actress best known for her Academy Award–nominated performance as Marilyn Lovell in the 1995 space drama "Apollo 13."
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B.
Patty Fenn
Patty Fenn is a television producer and key character in the film "Money Monster," where she manages the chaotic live broadcast at the center of the story.
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C.
Maud Adams
Maud Adams is a Swedish actress best known for her roles as Bond girls in the James Bond films "The Man with the Golden Gun" and "Octopussy."
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D.
Sela Ward
Sela Ward is an American actress known for her Emmy-winning performances in television dramas such as "Sisters" and "Once and Again."
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E.
Frances Farmer
Frances Farmer was an American film and stage actress of the 1930s and 1940s whose turbulent life and struggles with mental illness later made her a symbol of Hollywood tragedy and institutional abuse.
- 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: Linda Blair Target entity description: Linda Blair is an American actress best known for her iconic and chilling portrayal of the possessed child Regan MacNeil in the horror classic "The Exorcist."
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A.
Kathleen Quinlan
Kathleen Quinlan is an American film and television actress best known for her Academy Award–nominated performance as Marilyn Lovell in the 1995 space drama "Apollo 13."
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B.
Patty Fenn
Patty Fenn is a television producer and key character in the film "Money Monster," where she manages the chaotic live broadcast at the center of the story.
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C.
Maud Adams
Maud Adams is a Swedish actress best known for her roles as Bond girls in the James Bond films "The Man with the Golden Gun" and "Octopussy."
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D.
Sela Ward
Sela Ward is an American actress known for her Emmy-winning performances in television dramas such as "Sisters" and "Once and Again."
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E.
Frances Farmer
Frances Farmer was an American film and stage actress of the 1930s and 1940s whose turbulent life and struggles with mental illness later made her a symbol of Hollywood tragedy and institutional abuse.
- 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: Linda Blair Description of subject: Linda Blair is an American actress best known for her iconic and chilling portrayal of the possessed child Regan MacNeil in the horror classic "The Exorcist."
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Linda Blair
linked to: Linda Blair
linked to: Linda Blair
subject linked to:
Regan MacNeil (character in William Peter Blatty’s novel)
linked to: Linda Blair