Lily Tomlin
E263030
Lily Tomlin is an acclaimed American actress, comedian, and writer known for her groundbreaking character work in television, film, and stand-up comedy.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lily Tomlin canonical | 21 |
| Lili Tomlin | 1 |
| Lily Tomlin as Edwina Cutwater | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2403202 — 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: Lily Tomlin Context triple: [Grammy Award for Best Comedy Recording, notableWinner, Lily Tomlin]
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A.
Bonnie Hunt
Bonnie Hunt is an American actress, comedian, writer, director, and television host known for her roles in films like "Jumanji," "Jerry Maguire," and "Cheaper by the Dozen," as well as for voicing characters in multiple Pixar animated movies.
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B.
Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen is an American actress known for her versatile performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "Melvin and Howard," "Back to the Future Part III," and numerous character-driven dramas and comedies.
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C.
Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett is an iconic American comedian, actress, and singer best known for her groundbreaking sketch comedy series "The Carol Burnett Show."
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D.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is an American actress and comedian best known for her iconic roles on the television series "Seinfeld" and "Veep."
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E.
Catherine O’Hara
Catherine O’Hara is a Canadian-American actress, comedian, and writer best known for her work in "SCTV," the "Home Alone" films, and the TV series "Schitt’s Creek."
- 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: Lily Tomlin Target entity description: Lily Tomlin is an acclaimed American actress, comedian, and writer known for her groundbreaking character work in television, film, and stand-up comedy.
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A.
Bonnie Hunt
Bonnie Hunt is an American actress, comedian, writer, director, and television host known for her roles in films like "Jumanji," "Jerry Maguire," and "Cheaper by the Dozen," as well as for voicing characters in multiple Pixar animated movies.
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B.
Mary Steenburgen
Mary Steenburgen is an American actress known for her versatile performances in film and television, including acclaimed roles in movies such as "Melvin and Howard," "Back to the Future Part III," and numerous character-driven dramas and comedies.
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C.
Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett is an iconic American comedian, actress, and singer best known for her groundbreaking sketch comedy series "The Carol Burnett Show."
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D.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Louis-Dreyfus is an American actress and comedian best known for her iconic roles on the television series "Seinfeld" and "Veep."
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E.
Catherine O’Hara
Catherine O’Hara is a Canadian-American actress, comedian, and writer best known for her work in "SCTV," the "Home Alone" films, and the TV series "Schitt’s Creek."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Lily Tomlin Description of subject: Lily Tomlin is an acclaimed American actress, comedian, and writer known for her groundbreaking character work in television, film, and stand-up comedy.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lily Tomlin
linked to: Lily Tomlin
subject linked to:
Henry Olek
subject linked to:
9 to 5 (film)
subject linked to:
9 to 5 (film)