Erin Dignam
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Erin Dignam is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her collaborations with director Sean Penn and for writing character-driven drama films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Erin Dignam canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10394842 — 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: Erin Dignam Context triple: [The Last Face, screenwriter, Erin Dignam]
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A.
Erin McDermott
Erin McDermott is a collegiate sports administrator best known as the athletic director at Harvard University.
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B.
Erin Hannon
Erin Hannon is a cheerful, somewhat naive receptionist at Dunder Mifflin who becomes a central character in the later seasons of the U.S. version of The Office.
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C.
Bridget Kearney
Bridget Kearney is an American bassist, songwriter, and singer best known as a founding member of the genre-blending band Lake Street Dive.
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D.
Heather O’Rourke
Heather O’Rourke was an American child actress best known for her role as Carol Anne Freeling in the "Poltergeist" film series.
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E.
Kate Nelligan
Kate Nelligan is a Canadian actress acclaimed for her work in film, television, and theatre, noted for her intense dramatic performances and multiple award nominations.
- 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: Erin Dignam Target entity description: Erin Dignam is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her collaborations with director Sean Penn and for writing character-driven drama films.
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A.
Erin McDermott
Erin McDermott is a collegiate sports administrator best known as the athletic director at Harvard University.
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B.
Erin Hannon
Erin Hannon is a cheerful, somewhat naive receptionist at Dunder Mifflin who becomes a central character in the later seasons of the U.S. version of The Office.
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C.
Bridget Kearney
Bridget Kearney is an American bassist, songwriter, and singer best known as a founding member of the genre-blending band Lake Street Dive.
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D.
Heather O’Rourke
Heather O’Rourke was an American child actress best known for her role as Carol Anne Freeling in the "Poltergeist" film series.
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E.
Kate Nelligan
Kate Nelligan is a Canadian actress acclaimed for her work in film, television, and theatre, noted for her intense dramatic performances and multiple award nominations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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filmmaker ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith | Sean Penn ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| directorOf |
Denial
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Loved ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cinema
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film direction ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| knownFor | character-driven drama films ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableCollaboration | Sean Penn ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Denial
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I Am Sam ⓘ Loved ⓘ The Crossing Guard ⓘ The Last Face ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| screenwriterOf |
Denial
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I Am Sam ⓘ Loved ⓘ The Crossing Guard ⓘ The Last Face ⓘ |
| writingLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: Erin Dignam Description of subject: Erin Dignam is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for her collaborations with director Sean Penn and for writing character-driven drama films.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Last Face (2016 film)