Sherrybaby
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Sherrybaby is a 2006 independent drama film starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as a young woman struggling with addiction and motherhood after her release from prison.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sherrybaby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8002345 — 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: Sherrybaby Context triple: [Maggie Gyllenhaal, notableWork, Sherrybaby]
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A.
Ruby Baby
"Ruby Baby" is a classic rhythm and blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller that has been widely covered since the 1950s.
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B.
Shirlee
Shirlee is an alternative given name spelling of Shirley, typically used as a feminine first name.
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C.
Sheryl
Sheryl is a feminine given name most prominently associated with Sheryl Sandberg, the American technology executive and former COO of Meta Platforms.
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D.
Beba
Beba is a city in Egypt’s Beni Suef Governorate, known as a local administrative and commercial center in the region.
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E.
Cherry Darling
Cherry Darling is the iconic go-go dancer-turned-gun-legged heroine from Robert Rodriguez’s grindhouse zombie film "Planet Terror."
- 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: Sherrybaby Target entity description: Sherrybaby is a 2006 independent drama film starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as a young woman struggling with addiction and motherhood after her release from prison.
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A.
Ruby Baby
"Ruby Baby" is a classic rhythm and blues song written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller that has been widely covered since the 1950s.
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B.
Shirlee
Shirlee is an alternative given name spelling of Shirley, typically used as a feminine first name.
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C.
Sheryl
Sheryl is a feminine given name most prominently associated with Sheryl Sandberg, the American technology executive and former COO of Meta Platforms.
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D.
Beba
Beba is a city in Egypt’s Beni Suef Governorate, known as a local administrative and commercial center in the region.
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E.
Cherry Darling
Cherry Darling is the iconic go-go dancer-turned-gun-legged heroine from Robert Rodriguez’s grindhouse zombie film "Planet Terror."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | film ⓘ |
| characterRole |
Brad William Henke as Bobby
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Giancarlo Esposito as parole officer ⓘ Maggie Gyllenhaal as Sherry Swanson NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Bottoms as Sherry's father ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Russell Lee Fine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countrySetting | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| director | Laurie Collyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| distributor | IFC Films NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| editedBy | Plummy Tucker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| festivalScreening | Sundance Film Festival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| filmingStyle | realist independent drama ⓘ |
| genre |
drama
ⓘ
independent film ⓘ |
| hasProtagonist | Sherry Swanson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
addiction
ⓘ
motherhood ⓘ reintegration after incarceration ⓘ |
| motionPictureRating | R ⓘ |
| musicBy | Jonathan Goldsmith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | Maggie Gyllenhaal's lead performance ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| plotSummary | A young woman struggles with addiction and motherhood after her release from prison. ⓘ |
| portrays |
challenges of reentry after incarceration
ⓘ
relapse and recovery in addiction ⓘ struggles of single motherhood ⓘ |
| producer |
Jason Kliot
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Joana Vicente NERFINISHED ⓘ Lemore Syvan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| productionCompany | Elevation Filmworks NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | former heroin addict ⓘ |
| protagonistStatus | recently released from prison ⓘ |
| releaseType | independent theatrical release ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 2006 ⓘ |
| runningTime | approximately 96 minutes ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Laurie Collyer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| starring |
Brad William Henke
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Bridget Barkan NERFINISHED ⓘ Danny Trejo NERFINISHED ⓘ Giancarlo Esposito NERFINISHED ⓘ Maggie Gyllenhaal NERFINISHED ⓘ Michelle Hurst NERFINISHED ⓘ Sam Bottoms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult viewers ⓘ |
| timePeriodSetting | early 2000s ⓘ |
| writer | Laurie Collyer 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: Sherrybaby Description of subject: Sherrybaby is a 2006 independent drama film starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as a young woman struggling with addiction and motherhood after her release from prison.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.