Laurie Durning
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Laurie Durning is an American filmmaker and costume designer best known for her long-term relationship and later marriage to Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Laurie Durning canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5199489 — 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: Laurie Durning Context triple: [Roger Waters, spouse, Laurie Durning]
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A.
Tyne Daly
Tyne Daly is an American actress acclaimed for her powerful performances in television dramas, film, and theater, including her iconic role in the series "Cagney & Lacey."
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B.
Lucinda Jenney
Lucinda Jenney is an American character actress known for her versatile supporting roles in films and television since the 1980s.
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C.
Glenne Headly
Glenne Headly was an American actress known for her versatile film, television, and stage performances, including prominent roles in comedies and dramas from the 1980s onward.
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D.
Lisa Loring
Lisa Loring was an American actress best known for originating the role of Wednesday Addams as a child in the 1960s television adaptation of The Addams Family.
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E.
Tamara Tunie
Tamara Tunie is an American actress and director best known for her long-running role as medical examiner Melinda Warner on the television series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
- 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: Laurie Durning Target entity description: Laurie Durning is an American filmmaker and costume designer best known for her long-term relationship and later marriage to Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters.
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A.
Tyne Daly
Tyne Daly is an American actress acclaimed for her powerful performances in television dramas, film, and theater, including her iconic role in the series "Cagney & Lacey."
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B.
Lucinda Jenney
Lucinda Jenney is an American character actress known for her versatile supporting roles in films and television since the 1980s.
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C.
Glenne Headly
Glenne Headly was an American actress known for her versatile film, television, and stage performances, including prominent roles in comedies and dramas from the 1980s onward.
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D.
Lisa Loring
Lisa Loring was an American actress best known for originating the role of Wednesday Addams as a child in the 1960s television adaptation of The Addams Family.
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E.
Tamara Tunie
Tamara Tunie is an American actress and director best known for her long-running role as medical examiner Melinda Warner on the television series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
costume designer
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filmmaker ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| memberOf | Pink Floyd ⓘ |
| notableFor |
long-term relationship with Roger Waters
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marriage to Roger Waters ⓘ |
| occupation |
costume designer
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filmmaker ⓘ musician ⓘ record producer ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| positionHeld | co-founder of Pink Floyd ⓘ |
| spouse |
Laurie Durning
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Roger Waters ⓘ |
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: Laurie Durning Description of subject: Laurie Durning is an American filmmaker and costume designer best known for her long-term relationship and later marriage to Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Laurie Durning