Roxanne Kowalski
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Roxanne Kowalski is the intelligent and kind-hearted female lead in the 1987 romantic comedy film "Roxanne," portrayed by Daryl Hannah opposite Steve Martin.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Roxanne Kowalski canonical | 3 |
| Roxanne Kowalski in Roxanne | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2645742 — 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: Roxanne Kowalski Context triple: [Roxanne, hasCharacter, Roxanne Kowalski]
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A.
Alice Rivaz
Alice Rivaz was a Swiss novelist and short story writer known for her introspective, socially engaged portrayals of women's lives in 20th-century Switzerland.
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B.
Jessica Poole
Jessica Poole is a central female character in the romantic comedy film "The Pleasure of His Company," involved in the story’s family and relationship dynamics.
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C.
Jacelyn Reeves
Jacelyn Reeves is an American former flight attendant best known as the mother of actor Scott Eastwood and for her past relationship with Clint Eastwood.
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D.
Anna Reinhart
Anna Reinhart was the wife of Swiss Reformation leader Huldrych Zwingli and is known primarily for her association with his life and work in early 16th-century Zurich.
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E.
Kelly Grayson
Kelly Grayson is a central character on the science fiction comedy series "The Orville," serving as the ship's first officer and the ex-wife of Captain Ed Mercer.
- 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: Roxanne Kowalski Target entity description: Roxanne Kowalski is the intelligent and kind-hearted female lead in the 1987 romantic comedy film "Roxanne," portrayed by Daryl Hannah opposite Steve Martin.
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A.
Alice Rivaz
Alice Rivaz was a Swiss novelist and short story writer known for her introspective, socially engaged portrayals of women's lives in 20th-century Switzerland.
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B.
Jessica Poole
Jessica Poole is a central female character in the romantic comedy film "The Pleasure of His Company," involved in the story’s family and relationship dynamics.
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C.
Jacelyn Reeves
Jacelyn Reeves is an American former flight attendant best known as the mother of actor Scott Eastwood and for her past relationship with Clint Eastwood.
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D.
Anna Reinhart
Anna Reinhart was the wife of Swiss Reformation leader Huldrych Zwingli and is known primarily for her association with his life and work in early 16th-century Zurich.
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E.
Kelly Grayson
Kelly Grayson is a central character on the science fiction comedy series "The Orville," serving as the ship's first officer and the ex-wife of Captain Ed Mercer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
female character
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fictional character ⓘ film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Roxanne ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn | Roxane ⓘ |
| characterIn | 1987 romantic comedy film "Roxanne" ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| createdFor | film "Roxanne" ⓘ |
| firstAppearance |
Roxanne
ⓘ
surface form:
Roxanne (1987 film)
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasAcademicField | astronomy ⓘ |
| hasFullName | Roxanne Kowalski self-link ⓘ |
| hasPersonalityTrait |
intelligent
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kind-hearted ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | Roxane ⓘ |
| isProtagonistOf | Roxanne ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| loveInterestOf | C.D. Bales ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| notableWork | Roxanne ⓘ |
| occupation | astronomer ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Daryl Hannah ⓘ |
| settingOfResidence |
Nelson, British Columbia
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surface form:
Nelson, British Columbia (fictionalized as a small American town)
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| yearOfFirstAppearance | 1987 ⓘ |
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: Roxanne Kowalski Description of subject: Roxanne Kowalski is the intelligent and kind-hearted female lead in the 1987 romantic comedy film "Roxanne," portrayed by Daryl Hannah opposite Steve Martin.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Roxanne Kowalski in Roxanne