Nancy Cowan
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Nancy Cowan is a tense, upper-middle-class Brooklyn mother and one of the four central adults whose polite meeting unravels into chaos in Roman Polanski’s dark comedy film "Carnage."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nancy Cowan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6126647 — 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: Nancy Cowan Context triple: [Carnage, characterPlayedByKateWinslet, Nancy Cowan]
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A.
Nancy Wheeler
Nancy Wheeler is a determined and resourceful teenager in the series "Stranger Things," known for her investigative instincts and courage in confronting supernatural threats.
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B.
Beverly Prochnow
Beverly Prochnow is known as the spouse of German actor Jürgen Prochnow, recognized for his roles in films such as "Das Boot."
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C.
Nancy Cummings
Nancy Cummings was the daughter of American poet E. E. Cummings, known primarily through biographical accounts of his personal life.
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D.
Nancy Goodman
Nancy Goodman is an American diplomat, businesswoman, and philanthropist best known for founding the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
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E.
Nancy Morris
Nancy Morris was the wife of American politician and U.S. Representative Henry Winter Davis, a prominent figure in Maryland politics during the mid-19th century.
- 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: Nancy Cowan Target entity description: Nancy Cowan is a tense, upper-middle-class Brooklyn mother and one of the four central adults whose polite meeting unravels into chaos in Roman Polanski’s dark comedy film "Carnage."
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A.
Nancy Wheeler
Nancy Wheeler is a determined and resourceful teenager in the series "Stranger Things," known for her investigative instincts and courage in confronting supernatural threats.
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B.
Beverly Prochnow
Beverly Prochnow is known as the spouse of German actor Jürgen Prochnow, recognized for his roles in films such as "Das Boot."
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C.
Nancy Cummings
Nancy Cummings was the daughter of American poet E. E. Cummings, known primarily through biographical accounts of his personal life.
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D.
Nancy Goodman
Nancy Goodman is an American diplomat, businesswoman, and philanthropist best known for founding the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
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E.
Nancy Morris
Nancy Morris was the wife of American politician and U.S. Representative Henry Winter Davis, a prominent figure in Maryland politics during the mid-19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| adaptationOf | stage play character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Carnage ⓘ |
| basedOn | Annette Reille ⓘ |
| basedOnWork | Le Dieu du carnage ⓘ |
| centralCharacterIn | Carnage ⓘ |
| child | Zachary Cowan ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
France
ⓘ
Germany ⓘ Poland ⓘ Spain ⓘ |
| creator | Roman Polanski ⓘ |
| genreOfWorkAppearedIn |
comedy-drama
ⓘ
dark comedy ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeRole | one of four central adults ⓘ |
| occupation | wealth manager ⓘ |
| personalityTrait |
anxious
ⓘ
image-conscious ⓘ tense ⓘ |
| plotInvolvement | participates in a polite meeting that unravels into chaos ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Kate Winslet ⓘ |
| residence | Brooklyn ⓘ |
| settingOfResidence | New York City ⓘ |
| socialClass | upper-middle class ⓘ |
| spouse | Alan Cowan ⓘ |
| yearOfWork | 2011 ⓘ |
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: Nancy Cowan Description of subject: Nancy Cowan is a tense, upper-middle-class Brooklyn mother and one of the four central adults whose polite meeting unravels into chaos in Roman Polanski’s dark comedy film "Carnage."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.