White Oleander
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White Oleander is a 2002 drama film, based on Janet Fitch’s novel, that follows a teenage girl navigating foster homes after her enigmatic, manipulative mother is imprisoned for murder.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| White Oleander canonical | 4 |
| White Oleander (role: Astrid Magnussen) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10635304 — 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: White Oleander Context triple: [Michelle Pfeiffer, notableWork, White Oleander]
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A.
Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 psychological drama film about a young woman's experiences in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s, noted for Angelina Jolie's Oscar-winning supporting performance.
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B.
How I Learned to Drive
How I Learned to Drive is a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Paula Vogel that explores themes of sexual abuse, memory, and control through a nonlinear coming-of-age narrative.
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C.
The Lost Daughter
The Lost Daughter is a 2021 psychological drama film, based on Elena Ferrante’s novel and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, that explores the unsettling complexities of motherhood and female identity.
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D.
The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Bees is a 2008 coming-of-age drama film, based on Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, that follows a young girl in 1960s South Carolina who finds refuge with a group of beekeeping sisters amid racial and personal turmoil.
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E.
What Maisie Knew
What Maisie Knew is a novel by Henry James that follows a young girl caught between her divorced, self-absorbed parents, exploring themes of innocence, perception, and moral responsibility.
- 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: White Oleander Target entity description: White Oleander is a 2002 drama film, based on Janet Fitch’s novel, that follows a teenage girl navigating foster homes after her enigmatic, manipulative mother is imprisoned for murder.
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A.
Girl, Interrupted
Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 psychological drama film about a young woman's experiences in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s, noted for Angelina Jolie's Oscar-winning supporting performance.
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B.
How I Learned to Drive
How I Learned to Drive is a Pulitzer Prize–winning play by Paula Vogel that explores themes of sexual abuse, memory, and control through a nonlinear coming-of-age narrative.
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C.
The Lost Daughter
The Lost Daughter is a 2021 psychological drama film, based on Elena Ferrante’s novel and directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal, that explores the unsettling complexities of motherhood and female identity.
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D.
The Secret Life of Bees
The Secret Life of Bees is a 2008 coming-of-age drama film, based on Sue Monk Kidd’s novel, that follows a young girl in 1960s South Carolina who finds refuge with a group of beekeeping sisters amid racial and personal turmoil.
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E.
What Maisie Knew
What Maisie Knew is a novel by Henry James that follows a young girl caught between her divorced, self-absorbed parents, exploring themes of innocence, perception, and moral responsibility.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | White Oleander (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| authorOfSourceWork | Janet Fitch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | White Oleander (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| cinematographer | Elliot Davis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| composer | Thomas Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| daughterCharacter | Astrid Magnussen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Peter Kosminsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Warner Bros. Pictures ⓘ |
| editor | Hughes Winborne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre | drama ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Astrid Magnussen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Claire Richards NERFINISHED ⓘ Ingrid Magnussen NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Trout NERFINISHED ⓘ Rena NERFINISHED ⓘ Starr Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motherCharacter | Ingrid Magnussen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motherImprisonedFor | murder ⓘ |
| mpaaRating | PG-13 ⓘ |
| novelAuthor | Janet Fitch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| novelGenre | literary fiction ⓘ |
| novelPublicationYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A teenage girl navigates a series of foster homes after her manipulative mother is imprisoned for murder. ⓘ |
| portrayedBy |
Alison Lohman
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Billy Connolly NERFINISHED ⓘ Cole Hauser NERFINISHED ⓘ Michelle Pfeiffer NERFINISHED ⓘ Noah Wyle NERFINISHED ⓘ Patrick Fugit NERFINISHED ⓘ Renée Zellweger NERFINISHED ⓘ Robin Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| producer |
Ewan McGregor
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Wells NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
John Wells Productions
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Warner Bros. Pictures ⓘ |
| protagonistAgeGroup | teenager ⓘ |
| releaseDate | 2002-10-11 ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2002 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 109 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Mary Agnes Donoghue NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| theme |
identity
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mother–daughter relationship ⓘ resilience ⓘ |
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: White Oleander Description of subject: White Oleander is a 2002 drama film, based on Janet Fitch’s novel, that follows a teenage girl navigating foster homes after her enigmatic, manipulative mother is imprisoned for murder.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
White Oleander (role: Astrid Magnussen)