Lynda Obst
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Lynda Obst is an American film producer and author known for her work on major Hollywood films, including the science fiction epic "Interstellar."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lynda Obst canonical | 29 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1242821 — 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: Lynda Obst Context triple: [Interstellar, producer, Lynda Obst]
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Tyne Daly
Tyne Daly is an American actress acclaimed for her powerful performances in television dramas, film, and theater, including her iconic role in the series "Cagney & Lacey."
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B.
Beth Riesgraf
Beth Riesgraf is an American actress best known for playing the quirky thief Parker on the television series "Leverage."
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C.
Danielle Spencer
Danielle Spencer is an Australian actress and singer-songwriter best known for her work in film and music as well as her long-term relationship with actor Russell Crowe.
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D.
Lilla Crawford
Lilla Crawford is an American actress and singer best known for her work in musical theatre and film, including playing the title role in Broadway’s "Annie" and Little Red Riding Hood in the 2014 film adaptation of "Into the Woods."
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E.
Tanita Strahan
Tanita Strahan is an American visual artist and the eldest daughter of former NFL star and television personality Michael Strahan.
- 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: Lynda Obst Target entity description: Lynda Obst is an American film producer and author known for her work on major Hollywood films, including the science fiction epic "Interstellar."
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A.
Tyne Daly
Tyne Daly is an American actress acclaimed for her powerful performances in television dramas, film, and theater, including her iconic role in the series "Cagney & Lacey."
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B.
Beth Riesgraf
Beth Riesgraf is an American actress best known for playing the quirky thief Parker on the television series "Leverage."
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C.
Danielle Spencer
Danielle Spencer is an Australian actress and singer-songwriter best known for her work in film and music as well as her long-term relationship with actor Russell Crowe.
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D.
Lilla Crawford
Lilla Crawford is an American actress and singer best known for her work in musical theatre and film, including playing the title role in Broadway’s "Annie" and Little Red Riding Hood in the 2014 film adaptation of "Into the Woods."
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E.
Tanita Strahan
Tanita Strahan is an American visual artist and the eldest daughter of former NFL star and television personality Michael Strahan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Lynda Obst Description of subject: Lynda Obst is an American film producer and author known for her work on major Hollywood films, including the science fiction epic "Interstellar."
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lynda Obst Productions
subject linked to:
film "Contact"
subject linked to:
film "Hope Floats"