Eileen Ryan
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Eileen Ryan was an American actress known for her character roles in film and television and as the mother of actor and director Sean Penn.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eileen Ryan canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2217892 — 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: Eileen Ryan Context triple: [Sean Penn, parent, Eileen Ryan]
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A.
Virginia O'Brien
Virginia O'Brien was an American film actress and singer best known for her deadpan comedic style and musical performances in MGM musicals of the 1940s.
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B.
Helen O’Connell
Helen O’Connell was a popular American big band singer and entertainer best known for her work with Jimmy Dorsey’s orchestra in the 1940s.
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C.
Karen O’Brien
Karen O’Brien is a British academic and university leader who serves as Vice-Chancellor of Durham University, overseeing its strategic direction and academic mission.
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D.
Patricia O'Sullivan
Patricia O'Sullivan is one of the central schoolgirl protagonists in Enid Blyton’s "St. Clare’s" series, known for her lively personality and involvement in the boarding school’s adventures and dramas.
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E.
Susan Forristal
Susan Forristal is an American writer and former actress known for her work in film and television and for her past marriage to "Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels.
- 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: Eileen Ryan Target entity description: Eileen Ryan was an American actress known for her character roles in film and television and as the mother of actor and director Sean Penn.
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A.
Virginia O'Brien
Virginia O'Brien was an American film actress and singer best known for her deadpan comedic style and musical performances in MGM musicals of the 1940s.
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B.
Helen O’Connell
Helen O’Connell was a popular American big band singer and entertainer best known for her work with Jimmy Dorsey’s orchestra in the 1940s.
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C.
Karen O’Brien
Karen O’Brien is a British academic and university leader who serves as Vice-Chancellor of Durham University, overseeing its strategic direction and academic mission.
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D.
Patricia O'Sullivan
Patricia O'Sullivan is one of the central schoolgirl protagonists in Enid Blyton’s "St. Clare’s" series, known for her lively personality and involvement in the boarding school’s adventures and dramas.
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E.
Susan Forristal
Susan Forristal is an American writer and former actress known for her work in film and television and for her past marriage to "Saturday Night Live" creator Lorne Michaels.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Eileen Ryan Description of subject: Eileen Ryan was an American actress known for her character roles in film and television and as the mother of actor and director Sean Penn.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.