Carol Kane
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Carol Kane is an American actress known for her distinctive voice and quirky, offbeat roles in film, television, and theater, including acclaimed performances in works like "Hester Street," "Taxi," and "The Princess Bride."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Carol Kane canonical | 32 |
| Carol Kane as Gitl | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2245456 — 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: Carol Kane Context triple: [Dog Day Afternoon, starring, Carol Kane]
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A.
Becky Ann Baker
Becky Ann Baker is an American actress known for her character roles in film and television, including her acclaimed performance as Loreen Horvath on the HBO series "Girls."
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B.
Tamara Tunie
Tamara Tunie is an American actress and director best known for her long-running role as medical examiner Melinda Warner on the television series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
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C.
Ellen Barkin
Ellen Barkin is an American actress known for her intense, edgy performances in film and television, including prominent roles in movies like "The Big Easy" and the TV series "Animal Kingdom."
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D.
Frances Conroy
Frances Conroy is an American actress known for her work in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in "Six Feet Under" and "American Horror Story."
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E.
Jennifer Tilly
Jennifer Tilly is an American actress and poker player known for her distinctive voice and roles in films such as "Bullets Over Broadway" and the "Child's Play" horror franchise.
- 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: Carol Kane Target entity description: Carol Kane is an American actress known for her distinctive voice and quirky, offbeat roles in film, television, and theater, including acclaimed performances in works like "Hester Street," "Taxi," and "The Princess Bride."
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A.
Becky Ann Baker
Becky Ann Baker is an American actress known for her character roles in film and television, including her acclaimed performance as Loreen Horvath on the HBO series "Girls."
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B.
Tamara Tunie
Tamara Tunie is an American actress and director best known for her long-running role as medical examiner Melinda Warner on the television series "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
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C.
Ellen Barkin
Ellen Barkin is an American actress known for her intense, edgy performances in film and television, including prominent roles in movies like "The Big Easy" and the TV series "Animal Kingdom."
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D.
Frances Conroy
Frances Conroy is an American actress known for her work in film, television, and theater, including prominent roles in "Six Feet Under" and "American Horror Story."
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E.
Jennifer Tilly
Jennifer Tilly is an American actress and poker player known for her distinctive voice and roles in films such as "Bullets Over Broadway" and the "Child's Play" horror franchise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Carol Kane Description of subject: Carol Kane is an American actress known for her distinctive voice and quirky, offbeat roles in film, television, and theater, including acclaimed performances in works like "Hester Street," "Taxi," and "The Princess Bride."
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Film – Valentino (1977)
subject linked to:
film “Sunset Park”
linked to: Carol Kane
subject linked to:
Simka Dahblitz-Gravas in Taxi