Practical Magic
E125786
Practical Magic is a 1998 romantic fantasy film about two witch sisters navigating love, family curses, and small-town suspicion, based on Alice Hoffman's novel of the same name.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Practical Magic canonical | 30 |
| "Practical Magic" | 1 |
| "Practical Magic" novel | 1 |
| Practical Magic (1998 film) | 1 |
| Practical Magic (film) | 1 |
| Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1094749 — 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: Practical Magic Context triple: [Akiva Goldsman, notableWork, Practical Magic]
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A.
Season of the Witch
Season of the Witch is a 2011 supernatural action-horror film starring Nicolas Cage as a medieval knight tasked with escorting an accused witch suspected of causing the Black Plague.
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B.
The Wedding
"The Wedding" is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English dramatist James Shirley, known for its witty exploration of courtship, marriage, and social manners.
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C.
Company of Wolves
Company of Wolves is a film production company known for its involvement in British cinema projects such as the 2002 adaptation of "Nicholas Nickleby."
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D.
The Village Wedding
The Village Wedding is a lively 17th-century genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Jan Steen that humorously depicts a chaotic peasant wedding celebration.
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E.
Of Love and Other Demons
Of Love and Other Demons is a short novel by Gabriel García Márquez that blends magical realism and historical fiction to explore forbidden love, superstition, and colonial power in 18th-century Latin America.
- 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: Practical Magic Target entity description: Practical Magic is a 1998 romantic fantasy film about two witch sisters navigating love, family curses, and small-town suspicion, based on Alice Hoffman's novel of the same name.
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A.
Season of the Witch
Season of the Witch is a 2011 supernatural action-horror film starring Nicolas Cage as a medieval knight tasked with escorting an accused witch suspected of causing the Black Plague.
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B.
The Wedding
"The Wedding" is a Caroline-era stage comedy by English dramatist James Shirley, known for its witty exploration of courtship, marriage, and social manners.
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C.
Company of Wolves
Company of Wolves is a film production company known for its involvement in British cinema projects such as the 2002 adaptation of "Nicholas Nickleby."
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D.
The Village Wedding
The Village Wedding is a lively 17th-century genre painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Jan Steen that humorously depicts a chaotic peasant wedding celebration.
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E.
Of Love and Other Demons
Of Love and Other Demons is a short novel by Gabriel García Márquez that blends magical realism and historical fiction to explore forbidden love, superstition, and colonial power in 18th-century Latin America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Practical Magic Description of subject: Practical Magic is a 1998 romantic fantasy film about two witch sisters navigating love, family curses, and small-town suspicion, based on Alice Hoffman's novel of the same name.
Referenced by (35)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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