Naomi Foner
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Naomi Foner is an American screenwriter and film producer best known for writing the acclaimed drama "Running on Empty" and for being the mother of actors Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Naomi Foner canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5613870 — 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: Naomi Foner Context triple: [Peter Sarsgaard, relative, Naomi Foner]
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A.
Barbara Franklin
Barbara Franklin is an American business executive and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce known for advancing women’s roles in government and corporate leadership.
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B.
Kathleen Buhle
Kathleen Buhle is an American nonprofit executive and author best known as the ex-wife of Hunter Biden and for her memoir detailing their marriage and divorce.
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C.
Kathleen Middlekauff
Kathleen Middlekauff is an American academic and former spouse of investigative journalist and author Bob Woodward.
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D.
Margaret Pomeranz
Margaret Pomeranz is an Australian film critic and television presenter best known for co-hosting long-running movie review programs such as "The Movie Show" and "At the Movies."
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E.
Hanna Holborn Gray
Hanna Holborn Gray is a prominent American historian and academic leader best known for serving as president of the University of Chicago and for her influential scholarship on Renaissance and Reformation political thought.
- 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: Naomi Foner Target entity description: Naomi Foner is an American screenwriter and film producer best known for writing the acclaimed drama "Running on Empty" and for being the mother of actors Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal.
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A.
Barbara Franklin
Barbara Franklin is an American business executive and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce known for advancing women’s roles in government and corporate leadership.
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B.
Kathleen Buhle
Kathleen Buhle is an American nonprofit executive and author best known as the ex-wife of Hunter Biden and for her memoir detailing their marriage and divorce.
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C.
Kathleen Middlekauff
Kathleen Middlekauff is an American academic and former spouse of investigative journalist and author Bob Woodward.
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D.
Margaret Pomeranz
Margaret Pomeranz is an Australian film critic and television presenter best known for co-hosting long-running movie review programs such as "The Movie Show" and "At the Movies."
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E.
Hanna Holborn Gray
Hanna Holborn Gray is a prominent American historian and academic leader best known for serving as president of the University of Chicago and for her influential scholarship on Renaissance and Reformation political thought.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American Jew
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film producer ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for Running on Empty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Naomi Achs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Jake Gyllenhaal
NERFINISHED
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Maggie Gyllenhaal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-03-04 ⓘ |
| directed | Very Good Girls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Barnard College
NERFINISHED
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Columbia University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exSpouse | Eric Foner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy | political science ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Naomi Foner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
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Writers Guild of America Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedForWork | Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Running on Empty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of actors Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal
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writing the film Running on Empty ⓘ |
| notableWork | Running on Empty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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film producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| produced | Very Good Girls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Jake Gyllenhaal
NERFINISHED
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Maggie Gyllenhaal NERFINISHED ⓘ Stephen Gyllenhaal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Stephen Gyllenhaal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
Bee Season
NERFINISHED
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Losing Isaiah NERFINISHED ⓘ Running on Empty NERFINISHED ⓘ Very Good Girls NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Naomi Foner Description of subject: Naomi Foner is an American screenwriter and film producer best known for writing the acclaimed drama "Running on Empty" and for being the mother of actors Maggie and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.