Iris Holland
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Iris Holland is a fictional character in the film "Mr. Holland's Opus," known as the supportive wife of music teacher and composer Glenn Holland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iris Holland canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5303651 — 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: Iris Holland Context triple: [Glenn Holland, spouse, Iris Holland]
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A.
Iris Henderson
Iris Henderson is the spirited young English tourist who becomes the central heroine and amateur sleuth in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic mystery film "The Lady Vanishes."
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B.
Iris Robinson
Iris Robinson is a Northern Irish former Democratic Unionist Party politician and ex-Member of Parliament who became widely known following a high-profile personal and financial scandal.
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C.
Hellen Rose
Hellen Rose is an Australian multidisciplinary artist, performer, and filmmaker known for her collaborative work in politically engaged and experimental art.
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D.
Iris Chase
Iris Chase is the complex, introspective narrator of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Blind Assassin," whose recollections unravel a multigenerational family saga marked by betrayal, secrecy, and shifting power.
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E.
Alice Dainard
Alice Dainard is a central teenage character in the science fiction film "Super 8," known for her emotional depth and involvement in the mysterious events surrounding a catastrophic train crash.
- 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: Iris Holland Target entity description: Iris Holland is a fictional character in the film "Mr. Holland's Opus," known as the supportive wife of music teacher and composer Glenn Holland.
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A.
Iris Henderson
Iris Henderson is the spirited young English tourist who becomes the central heroine and amateur sleuth in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic mystery film "The Lady Vanishes."
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B.
Iris Robinson
Iris Robinson is a Northern Irish former Democratic Unionist Party politician and ex-Member of Parliament who became widely known following a high-profile personal and financial scandal.
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C.
Hellen Rose
Hellen Rose is an Australian multidisciplinary artist, performer, and filmmaker known for her collaborative work in politically engaged and experimental art.
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D.
Iris Chase
Iris Chase is the complex, introspective narrator of Margaret Atwood’s novel "The Blind Assassin," whose recollections unravel a multigenerational family saga marked by betrayal, secrecy, and shifting power.
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E.
Alice Dainard
Alice Dainard is a central teenage character in the science fiction film "Super 8," known for her emotional depth and involvement in the mysterious events surrounding a catastrophic train crash.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Mr. Holland's Opus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
family sacrifice
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marital strain ⓘ parenting a deaf child ⓘ work–life balance ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| createdBy | Patrick Sheane Duncan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyMember | Cole Holland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYear | 1995 ⓘ |
| genre | drama film character ⓘ |
| hasChild | Cole Holland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMaritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| hasRole | supportive wife ⓘ |
| languageOfCharacter | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole |
emotional support for Glenn Holland
ⓘ
mother of a deaf child ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic |
patient
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pragmatic ⓘ supportive ⓘ |
| occupation |
waitress
ⓘ
working mother ⓘ |
| partOf | Mr. Holland's Opus franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Glenne Headly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residesIn | Portland, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Glenn Holland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseProfession |
composer
ⓘ
music teacher ⓘ |
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: Iris Holland Description of subject: Iris Holland is a fictional character in the film "Mr. Holland's Opus," known as the supportive wife of music teacher and composer Glenn Holland.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Glenn Holland