Lorrie Sullenberger – Laura Linney
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Lorrie Sullenberger, portrayed by Laura Linney in the film "Sully," is the supportive wife of pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, offering emotional grounding amid the investigation following his emergency landing on the Hudson River.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lorrie Sullenberger – Laura Linney canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2900782 — 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)
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Target entity: Lorrie Sullenberger – Laura Linney Context triple: [Sully, characterPortrayedBy, Lorrie Sullenberger – Laura Linney]
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A.
Elizabeth Sanders
Elizabeth Sanders is best known as the wife of British historian and politician Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell.
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B.
Julianna Margulies
Julianna Margulies is an American actress best known for her acclaimed television roles on series such as "ER" and "The Good Wife."
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C.
Sarah Collins Rudolph
Sarah Collins Rudolph is an American woman known as the “fifth little girl,” the surviving sister of 16th Street Baptist Church bombing victim Addie Mae Collins and herself a wounded survivor of that 1963 Ku Klux Klan attack in Birmingham, Alabama.
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D.
Merritt Wever
Merritt Wever is an American actress known for her acclaimed roles in television series such as "Nurse Jackie," "Godless," and "Unbelievable," for which she has received multiple Emmy Awards.
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E.
Katherine Puening
Katherine Puening, better known as Kitty Oppenheimer, was a German-born American biologist and former Communist Party member who became the wife and close confidante of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
- 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: Lorrie Sullenberger – Laura Linney Target entity description: Lorrie Sullenberger, portrayed by Laura Linney in the film "Sully," is the supportive wife of pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, offering emotional grounding amid the investigation following his emergency landing on the Hudson River.
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A.
Elizabeth Sanders
Elizabeth Sanders is best known as the wife of British historian and politician Conrad Russell, 5th Earl Russell.
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B.
Julianna Margulies
Julianna Margulies is an American actress best known for her acclaimed television roles on series such as "ER" and "The Good Wife."
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C.
Sarah Collins Rudolph
Sarah Collins Rudolph is an American woman known as the “fifth little girl,” the surviving sister of 16th Street Baptist Church bombing victim Addie Mae Collins and herself a wounded survivor of that 1963 Ku Klux Klan attack in Birmingham, Alabama.
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D.
Merritt Wever
Merritt Wever is an American actress known for her acclaimed roles in television series such as "Nurse Jackie," "Godless," and "Unbelievable," for which she has received multiple Emmy Awards.
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E.
Katherine Puening
Katherine Puening, better known as Kitty Oppenheimer, was a German-born American biologist and former Communist Party member who became the wife and close confidante of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictionalCharacter
ⓘ
filmCharacter ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Sully ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | emergency landing on the Hudson River ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Lorrie Sullenberger (real person)
ⓘ
linked to:
Lorrie Sullenberger
|
| communicationMode | primarily phone conversations with Sully in the film ⓘ |
| context | NTSB investigation following the Hudson River landing ⓘ |
| emotionalTone | supportive and concerned ⓘ |
| filmDirector | Clint Eastwood ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 2016 ⓘ |
| filmScreenwriter | Todd Komarnicki ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | biographical drama film ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| linkedToRealEvent | US Airways Flight 1549 water landing ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| name | Lorrie Sullenberger ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
provides emotional support to Sully
ⓘ
shows personal impact of the investigation on Sully’s family ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Laura Linney ⓘ |
| primarySettingOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| relationshipType | marital relationship with Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger ⓘ |
| roleInStory | supportive wife of Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger ⓘ |
| spouseOf |
Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger
ⓘ
linked to:
Chesley Sullenberger
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| workBasedOn | "Highest Duty" by Chesley Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow ⓘ |
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: Lorrie Sullenberger – Laura Linney Description of subject: Lorrie Sullenberger, portrayed by Laura Linney in the film "Sully," is the supportive wife of pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger, offering emotional grounding amid the investigation following his emergency landing on the Hudson River.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.