Joan Holloway
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Joan Holloway is a poised and ambitious office manager-turned-partner at a 1960s New York advertising agency in the television series "Mad Men," known for her sharp wit, competence, and complex personal life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joan Holloway canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2458698 — 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: Joan Holloway Context triple: [Mad Men, mainCharacter, Joan Holloway]
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A.
Laura Lyons
Laura Lyons is the mother of American fashion model Lily Aldridge.
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B.
Meredith Vickers
Meredith Vickers is a cold, authoritative Weyland Corporation executive who oversees the Prometheus mission in the 2012 science fiction film "Prometheus."
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C.
Joanie Cunningham
Joanie Cunningham is a central teenage character on the classic American sitcom "Happy Days," known as Richie Cunningham’s spirited younger sister who later stars in the spin-off "Joanie Loves Chachi."
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D.
Mary Hartman
Mary Hartman is the neurotic, overwhelmed housewife protagonist of the satirical 1970s American soap opera parody "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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E.
Meredith Brooks
Meredith Brooks is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for her 1997 hit single "Bitch."
- 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: Joan Holloway Target entity description: Joan Holloway is a poised and ambitious office manager-turned-partner at a 1960s New York advertising agency in the television series "Mad Men," known for her sharp wit, competence, and complex personal life.
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A.
Laura Lyons
Laura Lyons is the mother of American fashion model Lily Aldridge.
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B.
Meredith Vickers
Meredith Vickers is a cold, authoritative Weyland Corporation executive who oversees the Prometheus mission in the 2012 science fiction film "Prometheus."
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C.
Joanie Cunningham
Joanie Cunningham is a central teenage character on the classic American sitcom "Happy Days," known as Richie Cunningham’s spirited younger sister who later stars in the spin-off "Joanie Loves Chachi."
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D.
Mary Hartman
Mary Hartman is the neurotic, overwhelmed housewife protagonist of the satirical 1970s American soap opera parody "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
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E.
Meredith Brooks
Meredith Brooks is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for her 1997 hit single "Bitch."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Mad Men ⓘ |
| businessVenture | Holloway Harris Productions ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
assertive
ⓘ
emotionally complex ⓘ resourceful ⓘ strategic thinker ⓘ |
| childBiologicalFather | Roger Sterling ⓘ |
| creator | Matthew Weiner ⓘ |
| employerLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Mad Men season 1 episode 1 ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| hairColor | red ⓘ |
| hasChild | Kevin Harris ⓘ |
| jobTitle |
head of secretarial pool
ⓘ
office manager at Sterling Cooper ⓘ partner in Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ambition
ⓘ
competence ⓘ complex personal life ⓘ poise ⓘ sharp wit ⓘ |
| marriedName | Joan Harris ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | major character ⓘ |
| narrativeTheme |
balancing career and family
ⓘ
gender roles in the workplace ⓘ power dynamics in corporate culture ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableEraDepicted | postwar American corporate culture ⓘ |
| occupation |
office manager
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partner at advertising agency ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Christina Hendricks ⓘ |
| romanticRelationship | Roger Sterling ⓘ |
| seriesCountryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| seriesDebutYear | 2007 ⓘ |
| seriesEndYear | 2015 ⓘ |
| seriesNetwork | AMC ⓘ |
| settingTimePeriod | 1960s ⓘ |
| spouse | Greg Harris ⓘ |
| worksAt |
Sterling Cooper
ⓘ
Sterling Cooper ⓘ
surface form:
Sterling Cooper & Partners
Sterling Cooper ⓘ
surface form:
Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce
|
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: Joan Holloway Description of subject: Joan Holloway is a poised and ambitious office manager-turned-partner at a 1960s New York advertising agency in the television series "Mad Men," known for her sharp wit, competence, and complex personal life.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.