Maya Forbes
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Maya Forbes is an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for films such as "Infinitely Polar Bear" and for her work on television series like "The Larry Sanders Show."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maya Forbes canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5035416 — 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: Maya Forbes Context triple: [Micah Fitzerman-Blue, spouse, Maya Forbes]
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A.
Maya Pfaff
Maya Pfaff is a member of the extended Bose–Pfaff family, descended from Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose through his daughter Anita Bose Pfaff.
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B.
Lyla Winston
Lyla Winston is a recurring character in the television series "Sons of Anarchy," known as Opie Winston’s wife and a former porn star trying to build a more stable life for her family.
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C.
Maya April Moore
Maya April Moore is a retired American professional basketball player widely regarded as one of the greatest in WNBA history and also known for her influential criminal justice reform advocacy.
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D.
Maya Hansen
Maya Hansen is a brilliant botanist and geneticist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe whose Extremis research plays a pivotal role in the events of Iron Man 3.
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E.
Madeline Ashton
Madeline Ashton is a vain, aging Hollywood actress whose obsession with youth and beauty leads her to drink a magical potion granting eternal life in the dark comedy film "Death Becomes Her."
- 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: Maya Forbes Target entity description: Maya Forbes is an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for films such as "Infinitely Polar Bear" and for her work on television series like "The Larry Sanders Show."
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A.
Maya Pfaff
Maya Pfaff is a member of the extended Bose–Pfaff family, descended from Indian nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose through his daughter Anita Bose Pfaff.
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B.
Lyla Winston
Lyla Winston is a recurring character in the television series "Sons of Anarchy," known as Opie Winston’s wife and a former porn star trying to build a more stable life for her family.
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C.
Maya April Moore
Maya April Moore is a retired American professional basketball player widely regarded as one of the greatest in WNBA history and also known for her influential criminal justice reform advocacy.
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D.
Maya Hansen
Maya Hansen is a brilliant botanist and geneticist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe whose Extremis research plays a pivotal role in the events of Iron Man 3.
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E.
Madeline Ashton
Madeline Ashton is a vain, aging Hollywood actress whose obsession with youth and beauty leads her to drink a magical potion granting eternal life in the dark comedy film "Death Becomes Her."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| coProducerWith | Wally Wolodarsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| coWriterWith | Wally Wolodarsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| directorOf | Infinitely Polar Bear NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Phillips Exeter Academy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | HBO ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African Americans
Scottish Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Forbes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
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drama ⓘ |
| givenName | Maya NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Maya Forbes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAward |
Gotham Independent Film Awards nomination
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Independent Spirit Awards nomination ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Dog’s Purpose
NERFINISHED
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days NERFINISHED ⓘ Infinitely Polar Bear NERFINISHED ⓘ Monsters vs. Aliens NERFINISHED ⓘ The Larry Sanders Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Naked Truth NERFINISHED ⓘ The People vs. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story NERFINISHED ⓘ The Polka King NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rocker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television producer ⓘ |
| producerOf |
Infinitely Polar Bear
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Polka King NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriterOf |
A Dog’s Purpose
NERFINISHED
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days NERFINISHED ⓘ Infinitely Polar Bear NERFINISHED ⓘ Monsters vs. Aliens NERFINISHED ⓘ The Polka King NERFINISHED ⓘ The Rocker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling | China Forbes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Wally Wolodarsky NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Los Angeles ⓘ |
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: Maya Forbes Description of subject: Maya Forbes is an American screenwriter, director, and producer known for films such as "Infinitely Polar Bear" and for her work on television series like "The Larry Sanders Show."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.