Sophie's Choice
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Sophie's Choice is a 1982 drama film, based on William Styron's novel, that follows a Holocaust survivor's harrowing past and present in postwar Brooklyn.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sophie’s Choice | 13 |
| Sophie's Choice canonical | 9 |
| "Sophie’s Choice" | 2 |
| Sophie's Choice (novel) | 1 |
| Sophie’s Choice (1982 film) | 1 |
| novel Sophie’s Choice (1979) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T341896 — 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: Sophie's Choice Context triple: [Meryl Streep, notableWork, Sophie's Choice]
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A.
The Green Mile
The Green Mile is a serialized novel by Stephen King that blends supernatural elements with a poignant death-row drama set in a 1930s Southern prison.
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B.
Sula
Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
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C.
The Wife
"The Wife" is a sentimental short story by Washington Irving that explores themes of love, loyalty, and devotion within marriage.
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D.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
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E.
Shirley
Shirley is the given name of Shirley Ann Jackson, a prominent American physicist and trailblazing academic leader.
- 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: Sophie's Choice Target entity description: Sophie's Choice is a 1982 drama film, based on William Styron's novel, that follows a Holocaust survivor's harrowing past and present in postwar Brooklyn.
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A.
The Green Mile
The Green Mile is a serialized novel by Stephen King that blends supernatural elements with a poignant death-row drama set in a 1930s Southern prison.
-
B.
Sula
Sula is a 1973 novel by American author Toni Morrison that explores Black female friendship, community, and identity in a small Ohio town.
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C.
The Wife
"The Wife" is a sentimental short story by Washington Irving that explores themes of love, loyalty, and devotion within marriage.
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D.
Shirley
Shirley is a small town in north-central Massachusetts served by commuter rail on the MBTA Fitchburg Line.
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E.
Shirley
Shirley is the given name of Shirley Ann Jackson, a prominent American physicist and trailblazing academic leader.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Sophie's Choice Description of subject: Sophie's Choice is a 1982 drama film, based on William Styron's novel, that follows a Holocaust survivor's harrowing past and present in postwar Brooklyn.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mary Louise Streep
this entity surface form:
Sophie's Choice (novel)
this entity surface form:
Sophie’s Choice
this entity surface form:
Sophie’s Choice
this entity surface form:
Sophie’s Choice
this entity surface form:
Sophie’s Choice
this entity surface form:
Sophie’s Choice
this entity surface form:
Sophie’s Choice
this entity surface form:
Sophie’s Choice
this entity surface form:
Sophie’s Choice
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novel Sophie’s Choice (1979)
this entity surface form:
Sophie’s Choice (1982 film)
this entity surface form:
"Sophie’s Choice"
this entity surface form:
Sophie’s Choice
this entity surface form:
Sophie’s Choice
subject surface form:
Meryl Streep
subject surface form:
Meryl Streep
this entity surface form:
Sophie’s Choice
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Sophie’s Choice
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Sophie’s Choice