Dillingham
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Dillingham is the family surname of Samantha Lewes, the late American actress and former wife of Tom Hanks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dillingham canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4282367 — 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: Dillingham Context triple: [Samantha Lewes, familyName, Dillingham]
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A.
Dillingham
Dillingham is a small remote city in southwestern Alaska known as a commercial fishing hub and gateway to the rich salmon fisheries of Bristol Bay.
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B.
Dillingham, Alaska
Dillingham, Alaska is a remote fishing community in southwestern Alaska that serves as a key hub for the Bristol Bay salmon industry.
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C.
Aleutians East Borough
Aleutians East Borough is a sparsely populated local government area in southwestern Alaska that encompasses part of the Alaska Peninsula and several Aleutian Islands, with an economy centered on commercial fishing and seafood processing.
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D.
Pearl City
Pearl City is a residential and commercial community on the island of Oʻahu in Hawaii, known for its proximity to Pearl Harbor and its role as a suburban hub near Honolulu.
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E.
Point Hope
Point Hope is a remote Inupiat village and one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in North America, located on a gravel spit jutting into the Chukchi Sea in northwest Alaska.
- 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: Dillingham Target entity description: Dillingham is the family surname of Samantha Lewes, the late American actress and former wife of Tom Hanks.
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A.
Dillingham
Dillingham is a small remote city in southwestern Alaska known as a commercial fishing hub and gateway to the rich salmon fisheries of Bristol Bay.
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B.
Dillingham, Alaska
Dillingham, Alaska is a remote fishing community in southwestern Alaska that serves as a key hub for the Bristol Bay salmon industry.
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C.
Aleutians East Borough
Aleutians East Borough is a sparsely populated local government area in southwestern Alaska that encompasses part of the Alaska Peninsula and several Aleutian Islands, with an economy centered on commercial fishing and seafood processing.
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D.
Pearl City
Pearl City is a residential and commercial community on the island of Oʻahu in Hawaii, known for its proximity to Pearl Harbor and its role as a suburban hub near Honolulu.
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E.
Point Hope
Point Hope is a remote Inupiat village and one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in North America, located on a gravel spit jutting into the Chukchi Sea in northwest Alaska.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
surname ⓘ |
| birthName | Susan Jane Dillingham ⓘ |
| familyName | Dillingham ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Samantha Lewes ⓘ |
| hasSpellingForm |
Dillingham
ⓘ
linked to:
Dillingham, Alaska
|
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| usedBy | Samantha Lewes ⓘ |
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: Dillingham Description of subject: Dillingham is the family surname of Samantha Lewes, the late American actress and former wife of Tom Hanks.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.