Phyllis Gates
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Phyllis Gates was an American secretary and talent agent best known for her brief 1950s marriage to Hollywood actor Rock Hudson and later public discussions about his closeted sexuality.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Phyllis Gates canonical | 3 |
| Phyllis Lucille Gates | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2953662 — 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: Phyllis Gates Context triple: [Rock Hudson, spouse, Phyllis Gates]
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A.
Nancy Gates
Nancy Gates was an American film and television actress active from the 1940s through the 1960s, known for her roles in dramas, film noirs, and romantic comedies.
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B.
Phyllis Ames
Phyllis Ames was the wife of Archibald Cox, the prominent American lawyer and Watergate special prosecutor.
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C.
Margaret Haley
Margaret Haley was an influential American educator and labor activist who championed teachers' rights and helped pioneer the modern teachers' union movement.
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D.
Phyllis Pratt
Phyllis Pratt was the wife of influential American diplomat and defense strategist Paul Nitze.
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E.
Gail Gregg
Gail Gregg is an American artist and journalist known for her work in visual arts and for her connection to the prominent Sulzberger publishing family.
- 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: Phyllis Gates Target entity description: Phyllis Gates was an American secretary and talent agent best known for her brief 1950s marriage to Hollywood actor Rock Hudson and later public discussions about his closeted sexuality.
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A.
Nancy Gates
Nancy Gates was an American film and television actress active from the 1940s through the 1960s, known for her roles in dramas, film noirs, and romantic comedies.
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B.
Phyllis Ames
Phyllis Ames was the wife of Archibald Cox, the prominent American lawyer and Watergate special prosecutor.
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C.
Margaret Haley
Margaret Haley was an influential American educator and labor activist who championed teachers' rights and helped pioneer the modern teachers' union movement.
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D.
Phyllis Pratt
Phyllis Pratt was the wife of influential American diplomat and defense strategist Paul Nitze.
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E.
Gail Gregg
Gail Gregg is an American artist and journalist known for her work in visual arts and for her connection to the prominent Sulzberger publishing family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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secretary ⓘ talent agent ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedRockHudsonAs | closeted gay man ⓘ |
| divorceReasonWithRockHudson | irreconcilable differences ⓘ |
| employer | Henry Willson ⓘ |
| endTimeOfMarriageToRockHudson | 1958-08-13 ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | entertainment industry ⓘ |
| genreOfNotableWork | memoir about Rock Hudson ⓘ |
| hasNoChildren | true ⓘ |
| industry | Hollywood ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| marriageDurationWithRockHudson | approximately 2 years and 9 months ⓘ |
| mediaAppearance | television interviews about Rock Hudson ⓘ |
| notableEvent | divorce from Rock Hudson ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being Rock Hudson's only wife
ⓘ
marriage to Rock Hudson ⓘ public discussions of Rock Hudson's sexuality ⓘ |
| notableWork | memoir on life with Rock Hudson ⓘ |
| occupation |
secretary
ⓘ
talent agent ⓘ |
| placeOfMarriageToRockHudson |
Santa Barbara, California
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linked to:
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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| residence |
Hollywood
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Los Angeles ⓘ |
| saidToBeTheSameAs |
Phyllis Lucille Gates
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linked to:
Phyllis Gates
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Rock Hudson ⓘ |
| startTimeOfMarriageToRockHudson | 1955-11-09 ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Hollywood talent agencies
ⓘ
linked to:
United Talent Agency
|
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: Phyllis Gates Description of subject: Phyllis Gates was an American secretary and talent agent best known for her brief 1950s marriage to Hollywood actor Rock Hudson and later public discussions about his closeted sexuality.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.