Postcards from the Edge
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Postcards from the Edge is a 1990 comedy-drama film, based on Carrie Fisher’s semi-autobiographical novel, that explores a Hollywood actress’s struggles with addiction and her complicated relationship with her mother.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Postcards from the Edge canonical | 7 |
| Postcards from the Edge (novel) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2297798 — 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: Postcards from the Edge Context triple: [Mike Nichols, notableWork, Postcards from the Edge]
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A.
The Day I Tried to Live
"The Day I Tried to Live" is a 1994 grunge/alternative rock song by Soundgarden, known for its dark, introspective lyrics and dynamic, heavy sound.
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B.
Nil by Mouth
Nil by Mouth is a 1997 British drama film written and directed by Gary Oldman that portrays a brutal, unflinching look at domestic violence and addiction in South London.
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C.
Three Women
Three Women is a 1921 Cubist-inspired painting by Fernand Léger that depicts three stylized female figures in a bold, mechanized, and brightly colored composition emblematic of his “machine aesthetic.”
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D.
And Then Life Happens
"And Then Life Happens" is the memoir by Auma Obama that recounts her life story, including her experiences growing up in Kenya and Germany and her perspective as Barack Obama’s half-sister.
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E.
The Accidental Tourist
The Accidental Tourist is a 1988 American drama film, based on Anne Tyler’s novel, that follows a grief-stricken travel writer whose life is upended by an eccentric dog trainer.
- 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: Postcards from the Edge Target entity description: Postcards from the Edge is a 1990 comedy-drama film, based on Carrie Fisher’s semi-autobiographical novel, that explores a Hollywood actress’s struggles with addiction and her complicated relationship with her mother.
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A.
The Day I Tried to Live
"The Day I Tried to Live" is a 1994 grunge/alternative rock song by Soundgarden, known for its dark, introspective lyrics and dynamic, heavy sound.
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B.
Nil by Mouth
Nil by Mouth is a 1997 British drama film written and directed by Gary Oldman that portrays a brutal, unflinching look at domestic violence and addiction in South London.
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C.
Three Women
Three Women is a 1921 Cubist-inspired painting by Fernand Léger that depicts three stylized female figures in a bold, mechanized, and brightly colored composition emblematic of his “machine aesthetic.”
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D.
And Then Life Happens
"And Then Life Happens" is the memoir by Auma Obama that recounts her life story, including her experiences growing up in Kenya and Germany and her perspective as Barack Obama’s half-sister.
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E.
The Accidental Tourist
The Accidental Tourist is a 1988 American drama film, based on Anne Tyler’s novel, that follows a grief-stricken travel writer whose life is upended by an eccentric dog trainer.
- 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: Postcards from the Edge Description of subject: Postcards from the Edge is a 1990 comedy-drama film, based on Carrie Fisher’s semi-autobiographical novel, that explores a Hollywood actress’s struggles with addiction and her complicated relationship with her mother.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Postcards from the Edge (novel)