Tiffany Shlain
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Tiffany Shlain is an American filmmaker, author, and internet pioneer best known for founding the Webby Awards and exploring the impact of technology on culture and society.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tiffany Shlain canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7421861 — 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: Tiffany Shlain Context triple: [Webby Award, founder, Tiffany Shlain]
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A.
Kimberly Shlain
Kimberly Shlain is the wife of American actor, comedian, and filmmaker Albert Brooks.
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B.
Jen Lewin
Jen Lewin is an American interactive light and sculpture artist known for large-scale, technology-driven public art installations.
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C.
Tina Cohen-Chang
Tina Cohen-Chang is a shy yet talented singer and member of the New Directions glee club in the television series "Glee."
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D.
Debra Jennifer Stern
Debra Jennifer Stern is one of the daughters of American radio and television personality Howard Stern.
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E.
Jane Kurson
Jane Kurson is a film editor best known for her work on the 1988 fantasy-comedy film "Beetlejuice."
- 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: Tiffany Shlain Target entity description: Tiffany Shlain is an American filmmaker, author, and internet pioneer best known for founding the Webby Awards and exploring the impact of technology on culture and society.
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A.
Kimberly Shlain
Kimberly Shlain is the wife of American actor, comedian, and filmmaker Albert Brooks.
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B.
Jen Lewin
Jen Lewin is an American interactive light and sculpture artist known for large-scale, technology-driven public art installations.
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C.
Tina Cohen-Chang
Tina Cohen-Chang is a shy yet talented singer and member of the New Directions glee club in the television series "Glee."
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D.
Debra Jennifer Stern
Debra Jennifer Stern is one of the daughters of American radio and television personality Howard Stern.
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E.
Jane Kurson
Jane Kurson is a film editor best known for her work on the 1988 fantasy-comedy film "Beetlejuice."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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filmmaker ⓘ internet pioneer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeIn |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
global digital culture community ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Emmy nomination for "The Future Starts Here"
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linked to:
Primetime Emmy Award nomination
Webby Special Achievement Award ⓘ
linked to:
Webby Award
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| basedIn | San Francisco Bay Area ⓘ |
| citizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| developedConcept | technology Shabbat ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
New York University
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University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Jewish culture
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digital culture ⓘ feminism ⓘ film ⓘ technology and society ⓘ |
| founded |
Let It Ripple Film Studio
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The Moxie Institute ⓘ The Webby Awards ⓘ
linked to:
Webby Award
|
| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasChild | daughter ⓘ |
| hasGenre |
documentary film
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short film ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Jewish identity
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digital life balance ⓘ global interconnectedness ⓘ impact of technology on humanity ⓘ women and leadership ⓘ |
| knownFor |
book "24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week"
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films about technology and society ⓘ founding the Webby Awards ⓘ work on the impact of technology on culture ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| notableWork |
book "24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week"
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documentary film "Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology" ⓘ documentary series "The Future Starts Here" ⓘ short film "The Tribe" ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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filmmaker ⓘ internet entrepreneur ⓘ public speaker ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| spouse | Ken Goldberg ⓘ |
| website | https://www.tiffanyshlain.com/ ⓘ |
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: Tiffany Shlain Description of subject: Tiffany Shlain is an American filmmaker, author, and internet pioneer best known for founding the Webby Awards and exploring the impact of technology on culture and society.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.