Sylvia
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"Sylvia" is a biographical drama film about poet Sylvia Plath, focusing on her turbulent marriage to Ted Hughes and her creative and emotional struggles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sylvia canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6764626 — 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: Sylvia Context triple: [Christine Jeffs, directed, Sylvia]
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A.
Sylvia
Sylvia is a feminine given name of Latin origin meaning "from the forest" or "of the woods."
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B.
Sylvia
Sylvia is a key character in the film "The Truman Show," a woman who tries to reveal the truth to Truman about his manufactured reality and becomes his inspiration to escape.
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C.
Sylvia’s
Sylvia’s is a famed soul food restaurant in Harlem, New York City, renowned for its Southern cuisine and cultural significance in the neighborhood.
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D.
Sylvia’s Mother
"Sylvia’s Mother" is a country-pop song, popularized by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, that tells a bittersweet story of lost love through a one-sided phone call.
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Lila
Lila is a central female character in Max Frisch’s novel "Mein Name sei Gantenbein," around whom the narrator constructs one of his imagined lives and relationships.
- 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: Sylvia Target entity description: "Sylvia" is a biographical drama film about poet Sylvia Plath, focusing on her turbulent marriage to Ted Hughes and her creative and emotional struggles.
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A.
Sylvia
Sylvia is a feminine given name of Latin origin meaning "from the forest" or "of the woods."
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B.
Sylvia
Sylvia is a key character in the film "The Truman Show," a woman who tries to reveal the truth to Truman about his manufactured reality and becomes his inspiration to escape.
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C.
Sylvia’s
Sylvia’s is a famed soul food restaurant in Harlem, New York City, renowned for its Southern cuisine and cultural significance in the neighborhood.
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D.
Sylvia’s Mother
"Sylvia’s Mother" is a country-pop song, popularized by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show, that tells a bittersweet story of lost love through a one-sided phone call.
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E.
Lila
Lila is a central female character in Max Frisch’s novel "Mein Name sei Gantenbein," around whom the narrator constructs one of his imagined lives and relationships.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| basedOn | life of Sylvia Plath ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | John Toon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| director | Christine Jeffs NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | Focus Features NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editor | Tariq Anwar NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingLocation |
New Zealand
NERFINISHED
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
creative struggles of Sylvia Plath
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emotional struggles of Sylvia Plath ⓘ marriage of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes ⓘ |
| genre |
biographical film
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drama film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
artistic ambition
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betrayal ⓘ gender roles ⓘ love ⓘ mental illness ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Sylvia Plath NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| musicBy | Gabriel Yared NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
impact of infidelity on marriage
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relationship between creativity and mental health ⓘ struggle of a female writer in mid-20th century ⓘ |
| portrays |
Assia Wevill
NERFINISHED
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Aurelia Plath NERFINISHED ⓘ Sylvia Plath NERFINISHED ⓘ Ted Hughes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portraysEvent |
Sylvia Plath's early literary success
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Sylvia Plath's time at Cambridge University ⓘ breakdown of Sylvia Plath's marriage ⓘ final months of Sylvia Plath's life ⓘ |
| producer | Alison Owen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany |
BBC Films
NERFINISHED
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Ruby Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2003 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 110 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | John Brownlow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setInPeriod |
1950s
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1960s ⓘ |
| stars |
Amira Casar
NERFINISHED
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Blythe Danner NERFINISHED ⓘ Daniel Craig NERFINISHED ⓘ Gwyneth Paltrow NERFINISHED ⓘ Jared Harris 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: Sylvia Description of subject: "Sylvia" is a biographical drama film about poet Sylvia Plath, focusing on her turbulent marriage to Ted Hughes and her creative and emotional struggles.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.