Angela Bassett
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Angela Bassett is an acclaimed American actress known for her powerful performances in film and television, particularly in biographical and dramatic roles.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Angela Bassett canonical | 45 |
| Angela Evelyn Bassett | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T206046 — 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: Angela Bassett Context triple: [Waiting to Exhale, starring, Angela Bassett]
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A.
Regina King
Regina King is an acclaimed American actress and director known for her award-winning performances in film and television, including roles in "If Beale Street Could Talk," "Watchmen," and "Jerry Maguire."
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B.
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg is an acclaimed American actress, comedian, and television host known for her EGOT-winning career spanning film, television, and theater.
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C.
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron is an Academy Award–winning South African–American actress and producer known for her versatile performances in films such as "Monster," "Mad Max: Fury Road," and "Atomic Blonde."
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D.
Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson is an American singer and actress renowned for her powerful vocals, Academy Award–winning performance in "Dreamgirls," and success on both stage and screen.
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E.
Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashad is an American actress, singer, and director best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the television series "The Cosby Show."
- 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: Angela Bassett Target entity description: Angela Bassett is an acclaimed American actress known for her powerful performances in film and television, particularly in biographical and dramatic roles.
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A.
Regina King
Regina King is an acclaimed American actress and director known for her award-winning performances in film and television, including roles in "If Beale Street Could Talk," "Watchmen," and "Jerry Maguire."
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B.
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg is an acclaimed American actress, comedian, and television host known for her EGOT-winning career spanning film, television, and theater.
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C.
Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron is an Academy Award–winning South African–American actress and producer known for her versatile performances in films such as "Monster," "Mad Max: Fury Road," and "Atomic Blonde."
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D.
Jennifer Hudson
Jennifer Hudson is an American singer and actress renowned for her powerful vocals, Academy Award–winning performance in "Dreamgirls," and success on both stage and screen.
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E.
Phylicia Rashad
Phylicia Rashad is an American actress, singer, and director best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the television series "The Cosby Show."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: Angela Bassett Description of subject: Angela Bassett is an acclaimed American actress known for her powerful performances in film and television, particularly in biographical and dramatic roles.
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Angela Bassett
subject linked to:
film "Malcolm X" (1992)
subject linked to:
What’s Love Got to Do with It
subject linked to:
What’s Love Got to Do with It
subject linked to:
Athena Grant in 9-1-1
subject linked to:
television series American Horror Story: Hotel
subject linked to:
film "Contact"