Earthly Possessions
E951514
Earthly Possessions is a 1999 television film adaptation of Anne Tyler’s novel, featuring Eva Amurri in a notable role.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "Earthly Possessions" (novel) | 1 |
| Earthly Possessions canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11859537 — 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: Earthly Possessions Context triple: [Eva Amurri, notableWork, Earthly Possessions]
-
A.
The Earthly
The Earthly is a poetry collection by Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky, known for its contemplative, metaphysical verse and its influence on the aesthetic world of his son, filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky.
-
B.
Earthly Paradise
Earthly Paradise is the idyllic, sinless garden at the summit of Mount Purgatory in Dante’s Divine Comedy, symbolizing humanity’s original innocence and the threshold to Heaven.
-
C.
Earthly Powers
Earthly Powers is a sprawling, darkly comic novel by Anthony Burgess that follows an aging writer reflecting on his life amid 20th-century political and religious upheavals.
-
D.
The Way Things Are
"The Way Things Are" is a track from Fiona Apple's album *When the Pawn...*, showcasing her introspective lyrics and distinctive piano-driven alternative style.
-
E.
The Proud Possessors
The Proud Possessors is a book by Aline Bernstein Saarinen that explores the stories, motivations, and personalities behind prominent art collectors and their collections.
- 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: Earthly Possessions Target entity description: Earthly Possessions is a 1999 television film adaptation of Anne Tyler’s novel, featuring Eva Amurri in a notable role.
-
A.
The Earthly
The Earthly is a poetry collection by Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky, known for its contemplative, metaphysical verse and its influence on the aesthetic world of his son, filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky.
-
B.
Earthly Paradise
Earthly Paradise is the idyllic, sinless garden at the summit of Mount Purgatory in Dante’s Divine Comedy, symbolizing humanity’s original innocence and the threshold to Heaven.
-
C.
Earthly Powers
Earthly Powers is a sprawling, darkly comic novel by Anthony Burgess that follows an aging writer reflecting on his life amid 20th-century political and religious upheavals.
-
D.
The Way Things Are
"The Way Things Are" is a track from Fiona Apple's album *When the Pawn...*, showcasing her introspective lyrics and distinctive piano-driven alternative style.
-
E.
The Proud Possessors
The Proud Possessors is a book by Aline Bernstein Saarinen that explores the stories, motivations, and personalities behind prominent art collectors and their collections.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film adaptation
ⓘ
television film ⓘ |
| author | Anne Tyler ⓘ |
| basedOn |
"Earthly Possessions" (novel)
ⓘ
linked to:
Earthly Possessions
|
| castMember |
Anne Pitoniak
ⓘ
Clancy Brown ⓘ Elisabeth Moss ⓘ Ellen Tobie ⓘ Eva Amurri ⓘ James Rebhorn ⓘ Jay O. Sanders ⓘ John Rothman ⓘ LisaGay Hamilton ⓘ Margo Martindale ⓘ Pruitt Taylor Vince ⓘ Stephen Dorff ⓘ Susan Sarandon ⓘ Tom Aldredge ⓘ |
| cinematographyBy | Rob Hahn ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| director | James Lapine ⓘ |
| editor | Michael Taylor ⓘ |
| genre |
drama film
ⓘ
television drama ⓘ |
| hasAdaptationSourceAuthor | Anne Tyler ⓘ |
| musicBy | Stephen Endelman ⓘ |
| notablePerformanceBy | Eva Amurri ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | HBO ⓘ |
| productionCompany | HBO ⓘ |
| releaseYear | 1999 ⓘ |
| runtimeMinutes | 105 ⓘ |
| screenwriter | James Lapine ⓘ |
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: Earthly Possessions Description of subject: Earthly Possessions is a 1999 television film adaptation of Anne Tyler’s novel, featuring Eva Amurri in a notable role.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Earthly Possessions