Carol Holofcener
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Carol Holofcener is the mother of American film director and screenwriter Nicole Holofcener.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Carol Holofcener canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8540391 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carol Holofcener Context triple: [Nicole Holofcener, parent, Carol Holofcener]
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A.
Nicole Holofcener
Nicole Holofcener is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her sharply observed, character-driven comedies and dramas exploring relationships, identity, and everyday moral dilemmas.
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B.
Maude Apatow
Maude Apatow is an American actress known for her roles in film and television, including her breakout performance as Lexi Howard in the HBO series "Euphoria."
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C.
Lisa Cholodenko
Lisa Cholodenko is an American film and television director and screenwriter known for her character-driven dramas exploring family, sexuality, and identity, including the acclaimed film "The Kids Are All Right."
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D.
Lynn Shelton
Lynn Shelton was an American filmmaker and television director known for her work in independent cinema and on acclaimed TV series.
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E.
Zoe Lister-Jones
Zoe Lister-Jones is an American actress, writer, and filmmaker known for her work in independent film and television, as well as for directing and writing genre-bending features.
- 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: Carol Holofcener Target entity description: Carol Holofcener is the mother of American film director and screenwriter Nicole Holofcener.
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A.
Nicole Holofcener
Nicole Holofcener is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her sharply observed, character-driven comedies and dramas exploring relationships, identity, and everyday moral dilemmas.
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B.
Maude Apatow
Maude Apatow is an American actress known for her roles in film and television, including her breakout performance as Lexi Howard in the HBO series "Euphoria."
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C.
Lisa Cholodenko
Lisa Cholodenko is an American film and television director and screenwriter known for her character-driven dramas exploring family, sexuality, and identity, including the acclaimed film "The Kids Are All Right."
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D.
Lynn Shelton
Lynn Shelton was an American filmmaker and television director known for her work in independent cinema and on acclaimed TV series.
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E.
Zoe Lister-Jones
Zoe Lister-Jones is an American actress, writer, and filmmaker known for her work in independent film and television, as well as for directing and writing genre-bending features.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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mother ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| hasChild | Nicole Holofcener ⓘ |
| mother | Carol Holofcener ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Carol Holofcener Description of subject: Carol Holofcener is the mother of American film director and screenwriter Nicole Holofcener.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Carol Holofcener