Kissing Jessica Stein
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Kissing Jessica Stein is a 2001 independent romantic comedy film about a neurotic New York journalist who unexpectedly enters a same-sex relationship after answering a personal ad.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kissing Jessica Stein canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3401888 — 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: Kissing Jessica Stein Context triple: [Michael Ealy, notableWork, Kissing Jessica Stein]
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A.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a 2008 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, following two American women who spend a transformative summer in Barcelona entangled in complex relationships with a charismatic painter and his volatile ex-wife.
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B.
The Meyerowitz Stories
The Meyerowitz Stories is a 2017 Noah Baumbach film, starring Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Dustin Hoffman, that follows a dysfunctional New York family reuniting around their aging patriarch.
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C.
Frances Ha
Frances Ha is a 2012 black-and-white indie comedy-drama film directed by Noah Baumbach and co-written by and starring Greta Gerwig, following a young woman’s aimless yet hopeful life in New York City.
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D.
The Big Sick
The Big Sick is a 2017 romantic comedy-drama film based on the real-life courtship of Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, blending culture-clash humor with heartfelt drama.
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E.
Café Society
Café Society is a 2016 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, set in 1930s Hollywood and New York, in which Jesse Eisenberg stars as a young man navigating love and ambition in the glamorous café society of the era.
- 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: Kissing Jessica Stein Target entity description: Kissing Jessica Stein is a 2001 independent romantic comedy film about a neurotic New York journalist who unexpectedly enters a same-sex relationship after answering a personal ad.
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A.
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Vicky Cristina Barcelona is a 2008 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, following two American women who spend a transformative summer in Barcelona entangled in complex relationships with a charismatic painter and his volatile ex-wife.
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B.
The Meyerowitz Stories
The Meyerowitz Stories is a 2017 Noah Baumbach film, starring Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, and Dustin Hoffman, that follows a dysfunctional New York family reuniting around their aging patriarch.
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C.
Frances Ha
Frances Ha is a 2012 black-and-white indie comedy-drama film directed by Noah Baumbach and co-written by and starring Greta Gerwig, following a young woman’s aimless yet hopeful life in New York City.
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D.
The Big Sick
The Big Sick is a 2017 romantic comedy-drama film based on the real-life courtship of Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, blending culture-clash humor with heartfelt drama.
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E.
Café Society
Café Society is a 2016 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, set in 1930s Hollywood and New York, in which Jesse Eisenberg stars as a young man navigating love and ambition in the glamorous café society of the era.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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independent film ⓘ romantic comedy film ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Lipschtick
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off-Broadway play ⓘ |
| castMember |
Heather Juergensen
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Jackie Hoffman ⓘ Jennifer Westfeldt ⓘ Jon Hamm ⓘ Michael Mastro ⓘ Scott Cohen ⓘ Tovah Feldshuh ⓘ |
| character |
Helen Cooper
ⓘ
Jessica Stein ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| director | Charles Herman-Wurmfeld ⓘ |
| distributor |
Searchlight Pictures
ⓘ
surface form:
Fox Searchlight Pictures
|
| era | early 2000s American independent cinema ⓘ |
| filmFormat | feature film ⓘ |
| genre |
LGBT-related film
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independent film ⓘ romantic comedy ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
dating and relationships
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family expectations ⓘ same-sex relationships ⓘ sexual identity ⓘ |
| independentFilmStatus | off-Hollywood production ⓘ |
| mainCharacterOccupation | journalist ⓘ |
| mainCharacterTrait | neurotic ⓘ |
| narrativeLocation | Manhattan ⓘ |
| notableFor | portrayal of a same-sex relationship in a romantic comedy format ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A neurotic New York journalist enters an unexpected same-sex relationship after answering a personal ad. ⓘ |
| producer |
Bradley J. Kaplan
ⓘ
Daryl Roth ⓘ Ruth Gaynes ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 2001 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 97 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Heather Juergensen
ⓘ
Jennifer Westfeldt ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| theatricalReleaseYear | 2002 ⓘ |
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: Kissing Jessica Stein Description of subject: Kissing Jessica Stein is a 2001 independent romantic comedy film about a neurotic New York journalist who unexpectedly enters a same-sex relationship after answering a personal ad.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.