Harriet the Spy
E686652
Harriet the Spy is a 1996 family comedy-mystery film, based on Louise Fitzhugh’s novel, about an inquisitive young girl whose secret notebook causes turmoil among her friends.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Harriet the Spy canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7746385 — 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: Harriet the Spy Context triple: [Rosie O'Donnell, notableWork, Harriet the Spy]
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A.
The Story Girl
The Story Girl is a 1911 novel by L. M. Montgomery that follows a group of children on Prince Edward Island, centered on a gifted young storyteller whose tales shape their imaginative world.
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B.
The Little Friend
The Little Friend is a 2002 novel by Donna Tartt that follows a young girl in Mississippi who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind her brother’s long-unsolved murder.
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C.
Matilda
Matilda was the regnal name of Edith of Scotland, who became Queen consort of England as the wife of King Henry I.
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D.
Matilda
Matilda is a virtuous and tragic noblewoman in Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto."
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E.
Matilda
Matilda is a feminine given name of Germanic origin, commonly associated with strength and battle might and borne by various notable historical and contemporary figures.
- 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: Harriet the Spy Target entity description: Harriet the Spy is a 1996 family comedy-mystery film, based on Louise Fitzhugh’s novel, about an inquisitive young girl whose secret notebook causes turmoil among her friends.
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A.
The Story Girl
The Story Girl is a 1911 novel by L. M. Montgomery that follows a group of children on Prince Edward Island, centered on a gifted young storyteller whose tales shape their imaginative world.
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B.
The Little Friend
The Little Friend is a 2002 novel by Donna Tartt that follows a young girl in Mississippi who becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind her brother’s long-unsolved murder.
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C.
Matilda
Matilda was the regnal name of Edith of Scotland, who became Queen consort of England as the wife of King Henry I.
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D.
Matilda
Matilda is a virtuous and tragic noblewoman in Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto."
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E.
Matilda
Matilda is a feminine given name of Germanic origin, commonly associated with strength and battle might and borne by various notable historical and contemporary figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceMaterial | Louise Fitzhugh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Harriet the Spy (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Francis Kenny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| director | Bronwen Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor |
Nickelodeon Movies
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paramount Pictures ⓘ |
| editedBy | Janice Hampton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executiveProducer | Scott Rudin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
New York City
ⓘ
Toronto NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
family ⓘ mystery ⓘ |
| hasSequel | Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Harriet M. Welsch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| medium | live-action film ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG ⓘ |
| musicBy | Jamshied Sharifi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | first theatrical film produced by Nickelodeon Movies ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | An inquisitive young girl’s secret notebook is discovered and causes turmoil among her friends. ⓘ |
| producer |
Leslie Holleran
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marykay Powell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
Nickelodeon Movies
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Rudin Management NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | aspiring writer ⓘ |
| protagonistTrait | inquisitive ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 1996-07-10 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1996 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 100 ⓘ |
| screenwriter |
Douglas Petrie
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Theresa Rebeck NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setIn | New York City ⓘ |
| stars |
Gregory Smith
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
J. Smith-Cameron NERFINISHED ⓘ Michelle Trachtenberg NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Joy NERFINISHED ⓘ Rosie O'Donnell NERFINISHED ⓘ Vanessa Lee Chester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
children
ⓘ
families ⓘ |
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: Harriet the Spy Description of subject: Harriet the Spy is a 1996 family comedy-mystery film, based on Louise Fitzhugh’s novel, about an inquisitive young girl whose secret notebook causes turmoil among her friends.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.