The Lady in the Van
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The Lady in the Van is a 2015 British comedy-drama film, based on Alan Bennett’s memoir and play, about an eccentric homeless woman who lives in a van parked in the playwright’s driveway.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| The Lady in the Van canonical | 13 |
| The Lady in the Van (film, 2015) | 1 |
| The Lady in the Van (memoir) | 1 |
| The Lady in the Van (play) | 1 |
| The Lady in the Van (stage production) | 1 |
| film The Lady in the Van | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1812530 — 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: The Lady in the Van Context triple: [Christian Colson, notableWork, The Lady in the Van]
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A.
Vera Drake
Vera Drake is a 2004 British period drama film directed by Mike Leigh about a working-class woman in 1950s London who secretly performs illegal abortions.
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B.
Mrs Henderson Presents
Mrs Henderson Presents is a 2005 British comedy-drama film about a widowed socialite who opens a controversial nude revue in London’s Windmill Theatre during World War II.
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C.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a British comedy-drama film about a group of British retirees who relocate to a seemingly luxurious retirement hotel in India, only to find it far less grand than advertised but ultimately life-changing.
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D.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is a 1989 British-French art-house crime drama film directed by Peter Greenaway, renowned for its stylized visuals, provocative themes, and intense performances.
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E.
About a Boy
About a Boy is a 2002 British-American comedy-drama film, based on Nick Hornby’s novel, about an immature bachelor whose life changes when he befriends a lonely young boy.
- 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: The Lady in the Van Target entity description: The Lady in the Van is a 2015 British comedy-drama film, based on Alan Bennett’s memoir and play, about an eccentric homeless woman who lives in a van parked in the playwright’s driveway.
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A.
Vera Drake
Vera Drake is a 2004 British period drama film directed by Mike Leigh about a working-class woman in 1950s London who secretly performs illegal abortions.
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B.
Mrs Henderson Presents
Mrs Henderson Presents is a 2005 British comedy-drama film about a widowed socialite who opens a controversial nude revue in London’s Windmill Theatre during World War II.
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C.
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a British comedy-drama film about a group of British retirees who relocate to a seemingly luxurious retirement hotel in India, only to find it far less grand than advertised but ultimately life-changing.
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D.
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is a 1989 British-French art-house crime drama film directed by Peter Greenaway, renowned for its stylized visuals, provocative themes, and intense performances.
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E.
About a Boy
About a Boy is a 2002 British-American comedy-drama film, based on Nick Hornby’s novel, about an immature bachelor whose life changes when he befriends a lonely young boy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (57)
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: The Lady in the Van Description of subject: The Lady in the Van is a 2015 British comedy-drama film, based on Alan Bennett’s memoir and play, about an eccentric homeless woman who lives in a van parked in the playwright’s driveway.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
The Lady in the Van (film, 2015)
this entity surface form:
The Lady in the Van (stage production)
this entity surface form:
The Lady in the Van (memoir)
this entity surface form:
The Lady in the Van (play)
subject surface form:
Miss Shepherd
subject surface form:
Miss Shepherd
this entity surface form:
film The Lady in the Van
subject surface form:
Miss Shepherd