Deborah Kaplan
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Deborah Kaplan is an American screenwriter and film director best known for co-writing and co-directing teen comedies such as "Can't Hardly Wait."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Deborah Kaplan canonical | 18 |
| Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6730677 — 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: Deborah Kaplan Context triple: [Can’t Hardly Wait, director, Deborah Kaplan]
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A.
Deborah Pines
Deborah Pines is an American physician and writer best known as the wife of journalist and author Tony Schwartz.
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Deborah Schwartz
Deborah Schwartz is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the inspirational biographical film "Soul Surfer."
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C.
Deborah Waxman
Deborah Waxman is an American rabbi and scholar who serves as a leading contemporary voice and institutional leader within Reconstructionist Judaism.
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D.
Deborah Koons
Deborah Koons is an American documentary filmmaker and environmental activist best known for her marriage to Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia.
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E.
Rachel Leibowitz
Rachel Leibowitz is a person notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Leibowitz.
- 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: Deborah Kaplan Target entity description: Deborah Kaplan is an American screenwriter and film director best known for co-writing and co-directing teen comedies such as "Can't Hardly Wait."
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A.
Deborah Pines
Deborah Pines is an American physician and writer best known as the wife of journalist and author Tony Schwartz.
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B.
Deborah Schwartz
Deborah Schwartz is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the inspirational biographical film "Soul Surfer."
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C.
Deborah Waxman
Deborah Waxman is an American rabbi and scholar who serves as a leading contemporary voice and institutional leader within Reconstructionist Judaism.
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D.
Deborah Koons
Deborah Koons is an American documentary filmmaker and environmental activist best known for her marriage to Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia.
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E.
Rachel Leibowitz
Rachel Leibowitz is a person notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Leibowitz.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Deborah Kaplan Description of subject: Deborah Kaplan is an American screenwriter and film director best known for co-writing and co-directing teen comedies such as "Can't Hardly Wait."
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
film "Can't Hardly Wait"
subject linked to:
film "Can't Hardly Wait"
linked to: Deborah Kaplan