Alice Rigney Oswalt
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Alice Rigney Oswalt is the daughter of American comedian and actor Patton Oswalt and his late wife, true-crime writer Michelle McNamara.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alice Rigney Oswalt canonical | 3 |
| Alice Oswalt | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8651100 — 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: Alice Rigney Oswalt Context triple: [Patton Oswalt, child, Alice Rigney Oswalt]
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A.
Anne Gaskins Pinckard
Anne Gaskins Pinckard was the wife of American statesman and Declaration of Independence signer Richard Henry Lee.
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B.
Amy Sedaris
Amy Sedaris is an American actress, comedian, and writer best known for her offbeat comedic roles in television series like "Strangers with Candy" and her voice work in numerous animated films.
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C.
Sarah Silverman
Sarah Silverman is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and writer known for her sharp, provocative humor and appearances in film and television.
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D.
Jeannie Gaffigan
Jeannie Gaffigan is an American comedy writer, producer, and actress best known for co-creating and producing "The Jim Gaffigan Show" and frequently collaborating on her husband Jim Gaffigan’s stand-up and television projects.
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E.
Susie Essman
Susie Essman is an American stand-up comedian and actress best known for her sharp-tongued, foul-mouthed role as Susie Greene on the HBO comedy series "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
- 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: Alice Rigney Oswalt Target entity description: Alice Rigney Oswalt is the daughter of American comedian and actor Patton Oswalt and his late wife, true-crime writer Michelle McNamara.
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A.
Anne Gaskins Pinckard
Anne Gaskins Pinckard was the wife of American statesman and Declaration of Independence signer Richard Henry Lee.
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B.
Amy Sedaris
Amy Sedaris is an American actress, comedian, and writer best known for her offbeat comedic roles in television series like "Strangers with Candy" and her voice work in numerous animated films.
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C.
Sarah Silverman
Sarah Silverman is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and writer known for her sharp, provocative humor and appearances in film and television.
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D.
Jeannie Gaffigan
Jeannie Gaffigan is an American comedy writer, producer, and actress best known for co-creating and producing "The Jim Gaffigan Show" and frequently collaborating on her husband Jim Gaffigan’s stand-up and television projects.
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E.
Susie Essman
Susie Essman is an American stand-up comedian and actress best known for her sharp-tongued, foul-mouthed role as Susie Greene on the HBO comedy series "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
child of a celebrity
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film actor ⓘ human ⓘ stand-up comedian ⓘ television actor ⓘ true crime writer ⓘ |
| child |
Alice Rigney Oswalt
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Alice Rigney Oswalt ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| father | Patton Oswalt ⓘ |
| mother | Michelle McNamara ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember |
Michelle McNamara
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Patton Oswalt ⓘ |
| occupation | author ⓘ |
| spouse |
Michelle McNamara
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Patton Oswalt ⓘ |
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: Alice Rigney Oswalt Description of subject: Alice Rigney Oswalt is the daughter of American comedian and actor Patton Oswalt and his late wife, true-crime writer Michelle McNamara.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alice Rigney Oswalt
subject linked to:
Alice Rigney Oswalt
subject linked to:
Alice Rigney Oswalt