Alice Howland
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Alice Howland is a linguistics professor and mother whose early-onset Alzheimer's disease and its impact on her identity and family are central to the story in "Still Alice."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alice Howland canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12869418 — 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 Howland Context triple: [Still Alice, mainCharacter, Alice Howland]
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A.
Maria Bennett
Maria Bennett is the main character portrayed by Naomi Watts in the 2012 disaster drama film "The Impossible," which is based on a true story of a family's survival during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
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B.
Virginia Quinn
Virginia Quinn, better known as Ginny Newhart, was an American television personality and the longtime wife of comedian Bob Newhart.
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C.
Patricia Quinn
Patricia Quinn is an Irish actress best known for her cult-classic role as Magenta in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
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D.
Shirley Sullivan
Shirley Sullivan is best known as the mother of American actor Cuba Gooding Jr.
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E.
Olivia Pope
Olivia Pope is the fiercely intelligent and influential crisis management expert at the center of the television series "Scandal," known for her political savvy, complex moral code, and iconic leadership style in Washington, D.C.
- 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 Howland Target entity description: Alice Howland is a linguistics professor and mother whose early-onset Alzheimer's disease and its impact on her identity and family are central to the story in "Still Alice."
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A.
Maria Bennett
Maria Bennett is the main character portrayed by Naomi Watts in the 2012 disaster drama film "The Impossible," which is based on a true story of a family's survival during the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
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B.
Virginia Quinn
Virginia Quinn, better known as Ginny Newhart, was an American television personality and the longtime wife of comedian Bob Newhart.
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C.
Patricia Quinn
Patricia Quinn is an Irish actress best known for her cult-classic role as Magenta in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."
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D.
Shirley Sullivan
Shirley Sullivan is best known as the mother of American actor Cuba Gooding Jr.
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E.
Olivia Pope
Olivia Pope is the fiercely intelligent and influential crisis management expert at the center of the television series "Scandal," known for her political savvy, complex moral code, and iconic leadership style in Washington, D.C.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
literary character ⓘ |
| appearsInWork |
film "Still Alice"
ⓘ
linked to:
Still Alice
novel "Still Alice" ⓘ
linked to:
Still Alice
|
| characterIn | Still Alice ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| creator | Lisa Genova ⓘ |
| educationLevel | PhD in linguistics ⓘ |
| employer | Columbia University ⓘ |
| familyRole | mother ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
"Still Alice" universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Still Alice
|
| fieldOfWork | linguistics ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
medical fiction
ⓘ
psychological drama ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Anna Howland
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Lydia Howland ⓘ Tom Howland ⓘ |
| hasGeneticRiskFactor | familial Alzheimer’s disease ⓘ |
| hasMedicalCondition |
Alzheimer’s disease
ⓘ
linked to:
Alzheimer's disease
early-onset Alzheimer’s disease ⓘ |
| knownFor |
depicting early-onset Alzheimer’s in midlife
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emotional impact on her family ⓘ struggle to maintain professional identity ⓘ |
| languageOfFictionalUniverse | English ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
impact of Alzheimer’s disease on family dynamics
ⓘ
impact of Alzheimer’s disease on identity ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
cognitive decline
ⓘ
highly accomplished academic career ⓘ progressive memory loss ⓘ |
| occupation | linguistics professor ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Julianne Moore ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | John Howland ⓘ |
| themeOf |
exploration of dignity in dementia
ⓘ
mother–daughter relationships under illness ⓘ |
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: Alice Howland Description of subject: Alice Howland is a linguistics professor and mother whose early-onset Alzheimer's disease and its impact on her identity and family are central to the story in "Still Alice."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.