Lois Smith
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Lois Smith is an American character actress known for her nuanced performances in film, television, and theater over a career spanning several decades.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lois Smith canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2173267 — 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: Lois Smith Context triple: [Five Easy Pieces, starring, Lois Smith]
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A.
Glynis Johns
Glynis Johns was a British actress and singer known for her distinctive husky voice and roles in films such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Court Jester," as well as her work on stage and television.
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B.
Estelle Parsons
Estelle Parsons is an American actress and director best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in the 1967 film "Bonnie and Clyde" and her extensive work on stage and television.
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C.
Judy Lewis
Judy Lewis was an American actress and television producer best known as the secret daughter of Hollywood stars Loretta Young and Clark Gable.
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D.
Joan Allen
Joan Allen is an acclaimed American actress known for her versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in dramas and political thrillers.
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E.
Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Moorehead was an American actress renowned for her powerful character roles in film, radio, and television, notably in Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre and as Endora on the TV series "Bewitched."
- 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: Lois Smith Target entity description: Lois Smith is an American character actress known for her nuanced performances in film, television, and theater over a career spanning several decades.
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A.
Glynis Johns
Glynis Johns was a British actress and singer known for her distinctive husky voice and roles in films such as "Mary Poppins" and "The Court Jester," as well as her work on stage and television.
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B.
Estelle Parsons
Estelle Parsons is an American actress and director best known for her Academy Award–winning performance in the 1967 film "Bonnie and Clyde" and her extensive work on stage and television.
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C.
Judy Lewis
Judy Lewis was an American actress and television producer best known as the secret daughter of Hollywood stars Loretta Young and Clark Gable.
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D.
Joan Allen
Joan Allen is an acclaimed American actress known for her versatile performances in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in dramas and political thrillers.
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E.
Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Moorehead was an American actress renowned for her powerful character roles in film, radio, and television, notably in Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre and as Endora on the TV series "Bewitched."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Lois Smith Description of subject: Lois Smith is an American character actress known for her nuanced performances in film, television, and theater over a career spanning several decades.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Mrs. Carrie Watts in The Trip to Bountiful
subject linked to:
Resurrection
subject linked to:
Dr. Iris Hineman in "Minority Report"