Philomena Lee
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Philomena Lee is an Irish woman whose decades-long search for the son taken from her by a Catholic institution inspired the book and film "Philomena."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Philomena Lee canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3691820 — 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: Philomena Lee Context triple: [Philomena, leadCharacter, Philomena Lee]
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A.
Margaret Kelly
Margaret Kelly is an American artist and the first wife of actor and comedian Bill Murray, to whom she was married from 1981 to 1996.
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B.
Marion Kilpatrick
Marion Kilpatrick was the wife of American conservative columnist and television commentator James J. Kilpatrick.
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C.
Irene O’Connor
Irene O’Connor was the first wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell, whom he married in the early 20th century.
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D.
Margaret Hogan
Margaret Hogan was the wife of legendary Major League Baseball manager and team owner Connie Mack.
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E.
Patricia Southall
Patricia Southall is a former Miss Virginia USA and philanthropist who was previously married to comedian Martin Lawrence and later to NFL Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith.
- 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: Philomena Lee Target entity description: Philomena Lee is an Irish woman whose decades-long search for the son taken from her by a Catholic institution inspired the book and film "Philomena."
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A.
Margaret Kelly
Margaret Kelly is an American artist and the first wife of actor and comedian Bill Murray, to whom she was married from 1981 to 1996.
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B.
Marion Kilpatrick
Marion Kilpatrick was the wife of American conservative columnist and television commentator James J. Kilpatrick.
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C.
Irene O’Connor
Irene O’Connor was the first wife of American illustrator Norman Rockwell, whom he married in the early 20th century.
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D.
Margaret Hogan
Margaret Hogan was the wife of legendary Major League Baseball manager and team owner Connie Mack.
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E.
Patricia Southall
Patricia Southall is a former Miss Virginia USA and philanthropist who was previously married to comedian Martin Lawrence and later to NFL Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish person
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| advocatedFor | adoption information rights ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Irish Catholic Church
ⓘ
Magdalene laundries controversy ⓘ
linked to:
The Magdalene Laundries
|
| childAdoptedTo |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| childAlsoKnownAs | Michael Hess NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| familyName | Lee ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Philomena ⓘ |
| hasChild | Anthony Lee ⓘ |
| hasReligion |
Catholicism
ⓘ
linked to:
Roman Catholicism
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| inspiredWork |
"Philomena" (2013 film)
ⓘ
linked to:
Philomena
"The Lost Child of Philomena Lee" (book) ⓘ
linked to:
book "The Lost Child of Philomena Lee"
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| knownFor | reuniting posthumously with the story of her son ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Philomena Lee ⓘ |
| notableFor |
inspiration for the book "The Lost Child of Philomena Lee"
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inspiration for the film "Philomena" ⓘ search for her son taken by a Catholic institution ⓘ |
| occupation | nurse ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Ireland ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Judi Dench ⓘ |
| searchPeriod | several decades ⓘ |
| spokeAbout |
forced adoption practices in Ireland
ⓘ
treatment of unmarried mothers in Catholic institutions ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
book "The Lost Child of Philomena Lee"
ⓘ
film "Philomena" ⓘ
linked to:
Philomena
|
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: Philomena Lee Description of subject: Philomena Lee is an Irish woman whose decades-long search for the son taken from her by a Catholic institution inspired the book and film "Philomena."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.