Marlo Thomas
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actress
author
film actress
human
social activist
stage actress
television actress
television producer
Marlo Thomas is an American actress, producer, and social activist best known for starring in the groundbreaking 1960s TV series "That Girl" and for her long-standing work with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marlo Thomas canonical | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3819019 — 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: Marlo Thomas Context triple: [Danny Thomas Productions, associatedWith, Marlo Thomas]
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A.
Sally Struthers
Sally Struthers is an American actress and activist best known for her Emmy-winning role as Gloria Stivic on the groundbreaking sitcom "All in the Family."
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B.
Edye Broad
Edye Broad is a philanthropist and the wife of billionaire entrepreneur Eli Broad, in whose honor the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is named.
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C.
JoBeth Williams
JoBeth Williams is an American actress known for her roles in films such as "Poltergeist," "The Big Chill," and numerous television movies and series.
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D.
Marilou York
Marilou York is an American dental hygienist best known as the longtime wife of actor Mark Hamill.
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E.
Dyan Cannon
Dyan Cannon is an American actress, director, and producer known for her work in film and television since the 1960s, as well as for her high-profile marriage to Cary Grant.
- 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: Marlo Thomas Target entity description: Marlo Thomas is an American actress, producer, and social activist best known for starring in the groundbreaking 1960s TV series "That Girl" and for her long-standing work with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
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A.
Sally Struthers
Sally Struthers is an American actress and activist best known for her Emmy-winning role as Gloria Stivic on the groundbreaking sitcom "All in the Family."
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B.
Edye Broad
Edye Broad is a philanthropist and the wife of billionaire entrepreneur Eli Broad, in whose honor the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is named.
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C.
JoBeth Williams
JoBeth Williams is an American actress known for her roles in films such as "Poltergeist," "The Big Chill," and numerous television movies and series.
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D.
Marilou York
Marilou York is an American dental hygienist best known as the longtime wife of actor Mark Hamill.
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E.
Dyan Cannon
Dyan Cannon is an American actress, director, and producer known for her work in film and television since the 1960s, as well as for her high-profile marriage to Cary Grant.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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author ⓘ film actress ⓘ human ⓘ social activist ⓘ stage actress ⓘ television actress ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Southern California ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Golden Globe Award
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Grammy Award ⓘ Presidential Medal of Freedom ⓘ Primetime Emmy Award ⓘ
linked to:
Primetime Emmy Awards
Women in Film Lucy Award ⓘ
linked to:
Lucy Award
|
| birthName | Margaret Julia Thomas ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1937-11-21 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Southern California School of Dramatic Arts
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linked to:
USC School of Dramatic Arts
|
| ethnicOrigin | Lebanese American ⓘ |
| familyName | Thomas ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
children’s health advocacy
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feminism ⓘ women’s rights ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Margaret ⓘ |
| marriageStart | 1980 ⓘ |
| name | Marlo Thomas ⓘ |
| network | ABC ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Free to Be... You and Me
ⓘ
Free to Be... a Family ⓘ
linked to:
Free to Be... You and Me
Friends (guest role as Sandra Green) ⓘ That Girl ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
producer ⓘ social activist ⓘ |
| organization | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ⓘ |
| parent |
Danny Thomas
ⓘ
Rose Marie Cassaniti Thomas ⓘ
linked to:
Rose Marie Mantell Thomas
|
| placeOfBirth |
Detroit, Michigan, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Detroit, Michigan, United States of America
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| positionHeld | National Outreach Director of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City, New York, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
New York City
|
| role | Ann Marie ⓘ |
| sibling | Tony Thomas ⓘ |
| spouse | Phil Donahue ⓘ |
| televisionSeries | That Girl ⓘ |
| yearsActive |
1960s
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1970s ⓘ 1980s ⓘ 1990s ⓘ 2000s ⓘ 2010s ⓘ 2020s ⓘ |
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: Marlo Thomas Description of subject: Marlo Thomas is an American actress, producer, and social activist best known for starring in the groundbreaking 1960s TV series "That Girl" and for her long-standing work with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.