Alexandra Cassavetes
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Alexandra Cassavetes is an American actress and filmmaker, known for her work in independent cinema and as the daughter of pioneering director John Cassavetes and actress Gena Rowlands.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alexandra Cassavetes canonical | 11 |
| Xan Cassavetes | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2422159 — 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: Alexandra Cassavetes Context triple: [John Cassavetes, child, Alexandra Cassavetes]
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A.
Nick Cassavetes
Nick Cassavetes is an American film director and actor known for helming emotionally driven dramas such as "The Notebook" and the crime drama "Alpha Dog."
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B.
Eleanor Coppola
Eleanor Coppola is an American documentary filmmaker, artist, and writer best known for her behind-the-scenes films and memoirs about the making of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s movies.
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C.
Violet Affleck
Violet Affleck is the eldest daughter of American actors Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, known primarily for her connection to her high-profile parents.
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D.
Mary Forman
Mary Forman is known primarily as the spouse of civil rights leader and activist James Forman.
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E.
Irin Carmon
Irin Carmon is a journalist and author best known for co-writing the biography "Notorious RBG" about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
- 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: Alexandra Cassavetes Target entity description: Alexandra Cassavetes is an American actress and filmmaker, known for her work in independent cinema and as the daughter of pioneering director John Cassavetes and actress Gena Rowlands.
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A.
Nick Cassavetes
Nick Cassavetes is an American film director and actor known for helming emotionally driven dramas such as "The Notebook" and the crime drama "Alpha Dog."
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B.
Eleanor Coppola
Eleanor Coppola is an American documentary filmmaker, artist, and writer best known for her behind-the-scenes films and memoirs about the making of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s movies.
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C.
Violet Affleck
Violet Affleck is the eldest daughter of American actors Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, known primarily for her connection to her high-profile parents.
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D.
Mary Forman
Mary Forman is known primarily as the spouse of civil rights leader and activist James Forman.
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E.
Irin Carmon
Irin Carmon is a journalist and author best known for co-writing the biography "Notorious RBG" about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American filmmaker
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actress ⓘ film director ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Alexandra Ribisi
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linked to:
Marissa Ribisi
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directed | Kiss of the Damned ⓘ |
| familyName | Cassavetes ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | independent film ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | horror film ⓘ |
| givenName | Alexandra ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Alexandra Cassavetes ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the daughter of John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands
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work in independent cinema ⓘ |
| notableWork | Kiss of the Damned ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
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film director ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| parent |
Gena Rowlands
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John Cassavetes ⓘ |
| sibling |
Nick Cassavetes
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Zoe Cassavetes ⓘ |
| spouse | Giovanni Ribisi ⓘ |
| wrote | Kiss of the Damned ⓘ |
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: Alexandra Cassavetes Description of subject: Alexandra Cassavetes is an American actress and filmmaker, known for her work in independent cinema and as the daughter of pioneering director John Cassavetes and actress Gena Rowlands.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alexandra Cassavetes
linked to: Alexandra Cassavetes
subject linked to:
Cassavetes
subject linked to:
Cassavetes
subject linked to:
Cassavetes family