Grandma
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"Grandma" is a 2015 American comedy-drama film starring Lily Tomlin as an irascible poet helping her granddaughter, featuring Laverne Cox in a supporting role.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Grandma canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5018882 — 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: Grandma Context triple: [Laverne Cox, appearedIn, Grandma]
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A.
Granny
Granny is a recurring elderly character in the Looney Tunes cartoons, best known as the kindly but sharp-witted owner of Tweety Bird (and often Sylvester’s exasperated caretaker).
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B.
Granma
Granma is the small yacht that carried Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries from Mexico to Cuba in 1956, becoming a symbol of the Cuban Revolution.
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C.
Granma
Granma is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba, known for disseminating government policies, political commentary, and state-approved news.
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D.
Nannie
Nannie is a feminine given name, often used as a diminutive or variant of names like Nancy or Anne.
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E.
Doris
Doris is the given name of Doris Buffett, an American philanthropist and sister of investor Warren Buffett, known for her charitable work and focus on direct, person-to-person giving.
- 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: Grandma Target entity description: "Grandma" is a 2015 American comedy-drama film starring Lily Tomlin as an irascible poet helping her granddaughter, featuring Laverne Cox in a supporting role.
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A.
Granny
Granny is a recurring elderly character in the Looney Tunes cartoons, best known as the kindly but sharp-witted owner of Tweety Bird (and often Sylvester’s exasperated caretaker).
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B.
Granma
Granma is the small yacht that carried Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries from Mexico to Cuba in 1956, becoming a symbol of the Cuban Revolution.
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C.
Granma
Granma is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba, known for disseminating government policies, political commentary, and state-approved news.
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D.
Nannie
Nannie is a feminine given name, often used as a diminutive or variant of names like Nancy or Anne.
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E.
Doris
Doris is the given name of Doris Buffett, an American philanthropist and sister of investor Warren Buffett, known for her charitable work and focus on direct, person-to-person giving.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comedy-drama film
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film ⓘ |
| budget | low-budget independent film ⓘ |
| castMember |
Elizabeth Peña
NERFINISHED
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John Cho NERFINISHED ⓘ Judy Greer NERFINISHED ⓘ Julia Garner NERFINISHED ⓘ Laverne Cox NERFINISHED ⓘ Lily Tomlin NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcia Gay Harden NERFINISHED ⓘ Nat Wolff NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Elliott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematography | Tobias Datum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| criticalReception | generally positive reviews ⓘ |
| director | Paul Weitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Sony Pictures Classics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Jonathan Corn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | comedy-drama ⓘ |
| hasFilmRating | R (MPAA) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| leadPerformancePraised | Lily Tomlin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Elle Reid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | feature film ⓘ |
| musicBy | Joel P. West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus | relationship between a grandmother and her granddaughter ⓘ |
| notableFor |
featuring Laverne Cox in a supporting role
ⓘ
starring Lily Tomlin in a leading role ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | An irascible poet helps her granddaughter find money for an abortion over the course of a day. ⓘ |
| premiereAt | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Andrew Miano
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Danièle Melia NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Weitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Depth of Field NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseDate | January 30, 2015 ⓘ |
| releaseEvent | 2015 Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| runtime | 79 minutes ⓘ |
| screenplayPraised | Paul Weitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Paul Weitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| starring |
Julia Garner
NERFINISHED
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Lily Tomlin NERFINISHED ⓘ Marcia Gay Harden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| theatricalReleaseDate | August 21, 2015 ⓘ |
| writer | Paul Weitz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 2015 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Grandma Description of subject: "Grandma" is a 2015 American comedy-drama film starring Lily Tomlin as an irascible poet helping her granddaughter, featuring Laverne Cox in a supporting role.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.