What About Joan?
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What About Joan? is an early-2000s American sitcom starring Joan Cusack as a high school teacher navigating relationships and everyday life in Chicago.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| What About Joan? canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5971713 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: What About Joan? Context triple: [Kyle Chandler, notableWork, What About Joan?]
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A.
Saint Joan of the Stockyards
Saint Joan of the Stockyards is a politically charged play by Bertolt Brecht that reimagines the story of Joan of Arc amid the struggles of workers and capitalist exploitation in Chicago’s meatpacking industry.
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B.
Joan and the Bells
Joan and the Bells is an opera by American composer Gordon Getty that dramatizes the trial and martyrdom of Joan of Arc.
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C.
Joan the Woman
Joan the Woman is a 1916 silent historical drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille that portrays the life and martyrdom of Joan of Arc.
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D.
Three Women
Three Women is a 1921 Cubist-inspired painting by Fernand Léger that depicts three stylized female figures in a bold, mechanized, and brightly colored composition emblematic of his “machine aesthetic.”
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E.
The Lady Who Dared
The Lady Who Dared is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film starring silent-era leading lady Billie Dove in one of her notable sound-era roles.
- 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: What About Joan? Target entity description: What About Joan? is an early-2000s American sitcom starring Joan Cusack as a high school teacher navigating relationships and everyday life in Chicago.
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A.
Saint Joan of the Stockyards
Saint Joan of the Stockyards is a politically charged play by Bertolt Brecht that reimagines the story of Joan of Arc amid the struggles of workers and capitalist exploitation in Chicago’s meatpacking industry.
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B.
Joan and the Bells
Joan and the Bells is an opera by American composer Gordon Getty that dramatizes the trial and martyrdom of Joan of Arc.
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C.
Joan the Woman
Joan the Woman is a 1916 silent historical drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille that portrays the life and martyrdom of Joan of Arc.
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D.
Three Women
Three Women is a 1921 Cubist-inspired painting by Fernand Léger that depicts three stylized female figures in a bold, mechanized, and brightly colored composition emblematic of his “machine aesthetic.”
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E.
The Lady Who Dared
The Lady Who Dared is a 1931 American pre-Code drama film starring silent-era leading lady Billie Dove in one of her notable sound-era roles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | television series ⓘ |
| broadcastFormat | half-hour television series ⓘ |
| cameraSetup | single-camera ⓘ |
| characterRole | Joan Cusack as Joan Gallagher ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| executiveProducer |
Arlene Donovan
ⓘ
Ed Weinberger ⓘ James L. Brooks ⓘ Joan Cusack ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
Chicago, Illinois
ⓘ
linked to:
Chicago
|
| firstAired | 2001 ⓘ |
| genre |
comedy
ⓘ
sitcom ⓘ |
| lastAired | 2001 ⓘ |
| mainCharacterName | Joan Gallagher ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
everyday life
ⓘ
romantic relationships ⓘ |
| numberOfEpisodes | 21 ⓘ |
| numberOfSeasons | 2 ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | ABC ⓘ |
| originalRunPeriod | early 2000s ⓘ |
| producer | Joan Cusack ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Columbia TriStar Television ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | high school teacher ⓘ |
| settingLocation |
Chicago, Illinois
ⓘ
linked to:
Chicago
|
| starring |
Donna Murphy
ⓘ
Jessica Hecht ⓘ Joan Cusack ⓘ Kellie Shanygne Williams ⓘ Kyle Chandler ⓘ Wallace Langham ⓘ |
| unairedEpisodes | 9 ⓘ |
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: What About Joan? Description of subject: What About Joan? is an early-2000s American sitcom starring Joan Cusack as a high school teacher navigating relationships and everyday life in Chicago.
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