Circle of Friends
E418672
Circle of Friends is a 1995 romantic drama film, based on Maeve Binchy’s novel, in which Alan Cumming appears alongside Minnie Driver and Chris O’Donnell.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Circle of Friends canonical | 9 |
| Circle of Friends (novel) | 2 |
| Circle of Friends (1995 film) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4174977 — 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: Circle of Friends Context triple: [Alan Cumming, notableWork, Circle of Friends]
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A.
Friend of Mine
"Friend of Mine" is a track by The Notorious B.I.G. from his landmark 1994 debut hip-hop album *Ready to Die*.
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B.
Our Song
"Our Song" is a track by the English progressive rock band Yes, featured on their 1983 album "90125."
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C.
Thank You for Being a Friend
"Thank You for Being a Friend" is a pop song written and originally recorded by Andrew Gold, best known as the theme song for the television sitcom *The Golden Girls*.
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D.
These Friends of Mine
These Friends of Mine is the original title of the 1990s ABC sitcom that later became known as Ellen, starring Ellen DeGeneres.
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E.
Best Friend
"Best Friend" is an R&B song by Brandy, released as a single from her self-titled debut album and known for its smooth groove and affectionate lyrics about sibling friendship.
- 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: Circle of Friends Target entity description: Circle of Friends is a 1995 romantic drama film, based on Maeve Binchy’s novel, in which Alan Cumming appears alongside Minnie Driver and Chris O’Donnell.
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A.
Friend of Mine
"Friend of Mine" is a track by The Notorious B.I.G. from his landmark 1994 debut hip-hop album *Ready to Die*.
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B.
Our Song
"Our Song" is a track by the English progressive rock band Yes, featured on their 1983 album "90125."
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C.
Thank You for Being a Friend
"Thank You for Being a Friend" is a pop song written and originally recorded by Andrew Gold, best known as the theme song for the television sitcom *The Golden Girls*.
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D.
These Friends of Mine
These Friends of Mine is the original title of the 1990s ABC sitcom that later became known as Ellen, starring Ellen DeGeneres.
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E.
Best Friend
"Best Friend" is an R&B song by Brandy, released as a single from her self-titled debut album and known for its smooth groove and affectionate lyrics about sibling friendship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Circle of Friends Description of subject: Circle of Friends is a 1995 romantic drama film, based on Maeve Binchy’s novel, in which Alan Cumming appears alongside Minnie Driver and Chris O’Donnell.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Circle of Friends
linked to: Circle of Friends
linked to: Circle of Friends