Sela Ward
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Sela Ward is an American actress known for her Emmy-winning performances in television dramas such as "Sisters" and "Once and Again."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sela Ward canonical | 35 |
| Sela Ann Ward | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T535671 — 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: Sela Ward Context triple: [Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, notableRecipient, Sela Ward]
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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.
Liv Tyler
Liv Tyler is an American actress and former model best known for her role as the elf Arwen in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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C.
Talia Shire
Talia Shire is an American actress best known for her roles as Adrian in the Rocky film series and Connie Corleone in The Godfather trilogy.
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D.
Barbara Bain
Barbara Bain is an American actress best known for her role as Cinnamon Carter on the television series "Mission: Impossible," for which she won multiple Primetime Emmy Awards.
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E.
Tilly Foster
Tilly Foster is a small hamlet in the Town of Southeast in Putnam County, New York, known historically for its former iron mine and rural character.
- 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: Sela Ward Target entity description: Sela Ward is an American actress known for her Emmy-winning performances in television dramas such as "Sisters" and "Once and Again."
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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.
Liv Tyler
Liv Tyler is an American actress and former model best known for her role as the elf Arwen in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.
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C.
Talia Shire
Talia Shire is an American actress best known for her roles as Adrian in the Rocky film series and Connie Corleone in The Godfather trilogy.
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D.
Barbara Bain
Barbara Bain is an American actress best known for her role as Cinnamon Carter on the television series "Mission: Impossible," for which she won multiple Primetime Emmy Awards.
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E.
Tilly Foster
Tilly Foster is a small hamlet in the Town of Southeast in Putnam County, New York, known historically for its former iron mine and rural character.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Sela Ward Description of subject: Sela Ward is an American actress known for her Emmy-winning performances in television dramas such as "Sisters" and "Once and Again."
Referenced by (36)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lily Manning in Once and Again
subject linked to:
The Stepfather
subject linked to:
The Guardian