Alice Hoffman
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Alice Hoffman is an American novelist best known for her works of magical realism, including the novel that inspired the film "Practical Magic."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alice Hoffman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5706058 — 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: Alice Hoffman Context triple: [Practical Magic, basedOnWorkBy, Alice Hoffman]
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A.
Freada Kapor Klein
Freada Kapor Klein is an American entrepreneur, activist, and philanthropist known for her work advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tech industry and co-founding the Kapor Center.
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B.
Anne Frances Robbins
Anne Frances Robbins, better known as Nancy Reagan, was an American actress and the First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989 as the wife of President Ronald Reagan.
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C.
Audrey Maas
Audrey Maas is a film producer known for her work on the acclaimed 1974 drama "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore."
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D.
Laura Shusterman
Laura Shusterman is the wife of former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen and a Ukrainian-born businesswoman who has been linked to some of his real estate and taxi-medallion ventures.
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E.
Amelia Hoffman
Amelia Hoffman was the wife of Theodore Brentano, the first U.S. Minister to Hungary and a prominent Chicago jurist.
- 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: Alice Hoffman Target entity description: Alice Hoffman is an American novelist best known for her works of magical realism, including the novel that inspired the film "Practical Magic."
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A.
Freada Kapor Klein
Freada Kapor Klein is an American entrepreneur, activist, and philanthropist known for her work advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tech industry and co-founding the Kapor Center.
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B.
Anne Frances Robbins
Anne Frances Robbins, better known as Nancy Reagan, was an American actress and the First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989 as the wife of President Ronald Reagan.
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C.
Audrey Maas
Audrey Maas is a film producer known for her work on the acclaimed 1974 drama "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore."
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D.
Laura Shusterman
Laura Shusterman is the wife of former Donald Trump attorney Michael Cohen and a Ukrainian-born businesswoman who has been linked to some of his real estate and taxi-medallion ventures.
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E.
Amelia Hoffman
Amelia Hoffman was the wife of Theodore Brentano, the first U.S. Minister to Hungary and a prominent Chicago jurist.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novelist ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts
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Master of Arts ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Adelphi University
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stanford University ⓘ |
| employer | Steel Pier (as a reader for a literary agency, early career) ⓘ |
| familyName | Hoffman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy fiction
ⓘ
historical fiction ⓘ magical realism ⓘ young adult fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Alice NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWrittenFor |
adult audiences
ⓘ
children ⓘ young adult audiences ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
fairy tales
ⓘ
mythology ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary American literature ⓘ |
| name | Alice Hoffman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | blending magical realism with contemporary settings ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Aquamarine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
At Risk NERFINISHED ⓘ Blackbird House NERFINISHED ⓘ Green Angel NERFINISHED ⓘ Green Witch NERFINISHED ⓘ Here on Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ Illumination Night NERFINISHED ⓘ Incantation NERFINISHED ⓘ Magic Lessons NERFINISHED ⓘ Practical Magic NERFINISHED ⓘ The Book of Magic NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dovekeepers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Museum of Extraordinary Things NERFINISHED ⓘ The Red Garden NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rules of Magic NERFINISHED ⓘ The World That We Knew NERFINISHED ⓘ Turtle Moon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
short story writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| residence | Massachusetts (as an adult) ⓘ |
| workAdaptedIntoFilm |
Aquamarine
NERFINISHED
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Practical Magic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Alice Hoffman Description of subject: Alice Hoffman is an American novelist best known for her works of magical realism, including the novel that inspired the film "Practical Magic."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.