Nora Ephron
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Nora Ephron was an acclaimed American journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and filmmaker best known for writing and directing iconic romantic comedies such as "When Harry Met Sally..." and "Sleepless in Seattle."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nora Ephron canonical | 37 |
| Delia Ephron | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T797600 — 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: Nora Ephron Context triple: [Wellesley College, hasNotableAlumna, Nora Ephron]
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A.
Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American playwright known for her witty, feminist explorations of contemporary women's lives in works such as "The Heidi Chronicles."
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B.
Penny Marshall
Penny Marshall was an American actress, comedian, and pioneering film director known for starring in the sitcom "Laverne & Shirley" and directing hit movies such as "Big" and "A League of Their Own."
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C.
Mona Simpson
Mona Simpson is an American novelist and professor known for works such as "Anywhere but Here" and for being the biological sister of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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D.
Rebecca Miller
Rebecca Miller is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and novelist known for works such as "Personal Velocity" and "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee."
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E.
Ellen Brody
Ellen Brody is the resilient and protective wife of police chief Martin Brody in the Jaws film series, known for her role as a grounding family presence amid the shark-related terror.
- 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: Nora Ephron Target entity description: Nora Ephron was an acclaimed American journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and filmmaker best known for writing and directing iconic romantic comedies such as "When Harry Met Sally..." and "Sleepless in Seattle."
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A.
Wendy Wasserstein
Wendy Wasserstein was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American playwright known for her witty, feminist explorations of contemporary women's lives in works such as "The Heidi Chronicles."
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B.
Penny Marshall
Penny Marshall was an American actress, comedian, and pioneering film director known for starring in the sitcom "Laverne & Shirley" and directing hit movies such as "Big" and "A League of Their Own."
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C.
Mona Simpson
Mona Simpson is an American novelist and professor known for works such as "Anywhere but Here" and for being the biological sister of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.
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D.
Rebecca Miller
Rebecca Miller is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, and novelist known for works such as "Personal Velocity" and "The Private Lives of Pippa Lee."
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E.
Ellen Brody
Ellen Brody is the resilient and protective wife of police chief Martin Brody in the Jaws film series, known for her role as a grounding family presence amid the shark-related terror.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (69)
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: Nora Ephron Description of subject: Nora Ephron was an acclaimed American journalist, essayist, screenwriter, and filmmaker best known for writing and directing iconic romantic comedies such as "When Harry Met Sally..." and "Sleepless in Seattle."
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
You've Got Mail
subject surface form:
You've Got Mail
subject surface form:
You've Got Mail
subject surface form:
You've Got Mail
this entity surface form:
Delia Ephron
subject surface form:
Julie & Julia
subject surface form:
Julie & Julia
subject surface form:
Eric Powell (Julie & Julia character)