Talia Balsam
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Talia Balsam is an American actress known for her work in film and television, including roles in series like Mad Men and numerous independent movies.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Talia Balsam canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3757789 — 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: Talia Balsam Context triple: [The Wackness, starring, Talia Balsam]
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A.
Barbara Bach
Barbara Bach is an American actress and former model best known for playing Bond girl Anya Amasova in the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me."
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B.
Marcia Cavell
Marcia Cavell is an American philosopher and psychoanalyst known for her work on the philosophy of mind, Freud, and the intersections between psychoanalysis and analytic philosophy.
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C.
Lynn Garland
Lynn Garland is the wife of U.S. Attorney General and former Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland and is known for her work in public service and community engagement.
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D.
Gloria Rudisch
Gloria Rudisch is an American pediatrician and public health official best known as the wife of artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky.
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E.
Ilona Staller
Ilona Staller, also known by her stage name Cicciolina, is a Hungarian-Italian former pornographic actress, singer, and politician who became internationally famous for her provocative public persona and tenure in the Italian Parliament.
- 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: Talia Balsam Target entity description: Talia Balsam is an American actress known for her work in film and television, including roles in series like Mad Men and numerous independent movies.
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A.
Barbara Bach
Barbara Bach is an American actress and former model best known for playing Bond girl Anya Amasova in the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me."
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B.
Marcia Cavell
Marcia Cavell is an American philosopher and psychoanalyst known for her work on the philosophy of mind, Freud, and the intersections between psychoanalysis and analytic philosophy.
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C.
Lynn Garland
Lynn Garland is the wife of U.S. Attorney General and former Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland and is known for her work in public service and community engagement.
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D.
Gloria Rudisch
Gloria Rudisch is an American pediatrician and public health official best known as the wife of artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky.
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E.
Ilona Staller
Ilona Staller, also known by her stage name Cicciolina, is a Hungarian-Italian former pornographic actress, singer, and politician who became internationally famous for her provocative public persona and tenure in the Italian Parliament.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actress
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film actress ⓘ human ⓘ television actress ⓘ |
| characterRole | Mona Sterling ⓘ |
| child | Harry Slattery ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1959-03-05 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Balsam ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Talia ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Talia Balsam ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Crawlspace
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Divorce ⓘ Homeland ⓘ In the Mood ⓘ K Street ⓘ L.A. Doctors ⓘ Law & Order ⓘ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ⓘ Little Manhattan ⓘ Mad Men ⓘ No Strings Attached ⓘ Nurse Jackie ⓘ South Mountain ⓘ The Cake Eaters ⓘ The Girl in the Book ⓘ The Good Wife ⓘ The Many Saints of Newark ⓘ The Super ⓘ The Wackness ⓘ Without a Trace ⓘ |
| occupation | actress ⓘ |
| parent |
Joyce Van Patten
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Martin Balsam ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| relative |
Dick Van Patten
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Tim Van Patten ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse |
George Clooney
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John Slattery ⓘ |
| televisionDebut | Happy Days ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1970s–present ⓘ |
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: Talia Balsam Description of subject: Talia Balsam is an American actress known for her work in film and television, including roles in series like Mad Men and numerous independent movies.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.