Melinda Dillon
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Melinda Dillon was an American actress best known for her Oscar-nominated role in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and for playing the mother in the holiday classic "A Christmas Story."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Melinda Dillon canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2791777 — 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: Melinda Dillon Context triple: [Close Encounters of the Third Kind, castMember, Melinda Dillon]
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A.
Lisa Sheridan
Lisa Sheridan is the troubled protagonist of the psychological thriller film "Obsessed," whose fixation drives the story's escalating tension and conflict.
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B.
Melissa Mathison
Melissa Mathison was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
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C.
Beth Riesgraf
Beth Riesgraf is an American actress best known for playing the quirky thief Parker on the television series "Leverage."
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D.
Karla Redding
Karla Redding is the daughter of legendary soul singer Otis Redding and an active steward of his musical legacy through preservation and philanthropic work.
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E.
Madeleine Stowe
Madeleine Stowe is an American actress best known for her film roles in the 1990s, including "The Last of the Mohicans" and "12 Monkeys," and later for her acclaimed television work.
- 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: Melinda Dillon Target entity description: Melinda Dillon was an American actress best known for her Oscar-nominated role in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and for playing the mother in the holiday classic "A Christmas Story."
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A.
Lisa Sheridan
Lisa Sheridan is the troubled protagonist of the psychological thriller film "Obsessed," whose fixation drives the story's escalating tension and conflict.
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B.
Melissa Mathison
Melissa Mathison was an American screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for Steven Spielberg’s film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial."
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C.
Beth Riesgraf
Beth Riesgraf is an American actress best known for playing the quirky thief Parker on the television series "Leverage."
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D.
Karla Redding
Karla Redding is the daughter of legendary soul singer Otis Redding and an active steward of his musical legacy through preservation and philanthropic work.
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E.
Madeleine Stowe
Madeleine Stowe is an American actress best known for her film roles in the 1990s, including "The Last of the Mohicans" and "12 Monkeys," and later for her acclaimed television work.
- 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: Melinda Dillon Description of subject: Melinda Dillon was an American actress best known for her Oscar-nominated role in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and for playing the mother in the holiday classic "A Christmas Story."
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977 film)
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Absence of Malice
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nominatedPerson
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Melinda Dillon
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subject linked to:
Mrs. Parker in A Christmas Story
subject linked to:
Teresa Perrone in Absence of Malice
subject linked to:
Nancy Henderson in Harry and the Hendersons
subject linked to:
Savannah Wingo in The Prince of Tides