Cathy Cahlin Ryan
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Cathy Cahlin Ryan is an American actress best known for her recurring role as Corrine Mackey on the television crime drama series "The Shield."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cathy Cahlin Ryan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2995331 — 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: Cathy Cahlin Ryan Context triple: [The Shield, portrayedBy, Cathy Cahlin Ryan]
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A.
Caryn Elaine Johnson
Caryn Elaine Johnson is the birth name of Whoopi Goldberg, the acclaimed American actress, comedian, and television host.
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B.
Cathy Hiatt
Cathy Hiatt is a struggling actress whose failed marriage is explored from her perspective in the musical "The Last Five Years."
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C.
Cathy O'Donnell
Cathy O'Donnell was an American film actress known for her poignant supporting roles in classic mid-20th-century movies, including the biblical epic "Ben-Hur."
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D.
Linda Keene
Linda Keene is the wealthy and sophisticated socialite love interest of Fred Astaire’s character in the 1937 musical film "Shall We Dance."
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E.
Dolores Erickson
Dolores Erickson is an American model and actress best known as the cover girl on Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass’s iconic 1965 album "Whipped Cream & Other Delights."
- 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: Cathy Cahlin Ryan Target entity description: Cathy Cahlin Ryan is an American actress best known for her recurring role as Corrine Mackey on the television crime drama series "The Shield."
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A.
Caryn Elaine Johnson
Caryn Elaine Johnson is the birth name of Whoopi Goldberg, the acclaimed American actress, comedian, and television host.
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B.
Cathy Hiatt
Cathy Hiatt is a struggling actress whose failed marriage is explored from her perspective in the musical "The Last Five Years."
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C.
Cathy O'Donnell
Cathy O'Donnell was an American film actress known for her poignant supporting roles in classic mid-20th-century movies, including the biblical epic "Ben-Hur."
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D.
Linda Keene
Linda Keene is the wealthy and sophisticated socialite love interest of Fred Astaire’s character in the 1937 musical film "Shall We Dance."
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E.
Dolores Erickson
Dolores Erickson is an American model and actress best known as the cover girl on Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass’s iconic 1965 album "Whipped Cream & Other Delights."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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fictional character ⓘ human ⓘ television actress ⓘ television series ⓘ television series ⓘ television series ⓘ television series ⓘ television series ⓘ television series ⓘ television series ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| appearedIn |
Justified
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Lie to Me ⓘ Monk ⓘ Nash Bridges ⓘ Rosewood ⓘ The Chicago Code ⓘ The Unit ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Shield ⓘ |
| castMemberOf | The Shield ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
action drama
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comedy-drama ⓘ crime drama ⓘ crime drama television ⓘ police drama ⓘ police procedural ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasRole | Corrine Mackey ⓘ |
| knownFor | portraying Corrine Mackey on The Shield ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Justified
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Lie to Me ⓘ Monk ⓘ Nash Bridges ⓘ Rosewood ⓘ The Chicago Code ⓘ The Shield ⓘ The Unit ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | FX ⓘ |
| partnerOf | Shawn Ryan ⓘ |
| spouse | Shawn Ryan ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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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: Cathy Cahlin Ryan Description of subject: Cathy Cahlin Ryan is an American actress best known for her recurring role as Corrine Mackey on the television crime drama series "The Shield."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.