Joan Sobel
E179288
Joan Sobel is a film editor best known for her work on critically acclaimed films such as "A Single Man."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Joan Sobel canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T499187 — 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: Joan Sobel Context triple: [A Single Man, editedBy, Joan Sobel]
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A.
Sally Kornbluth
Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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B.
Barbara Robbins
Barbara Robbins is known as the wife of Jon Lindbergh, the son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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C.
Annette Lerner
Annette Lerner is a Washington, D.C.–area philanthropist and matriarch of the Lerner family, known for their real estate empire and former ownership of the Washington Nationals baseball team.
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D.
Lynne Hollander
Lynne Hollander is an American activist best known for her involvement in the 1960s Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley and her longtime partnership with fellow activist Mario Savio.
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E.
Judith Nelson
Judith Nelson was an American soprano known for her pioneering work and acclaimed performances in the early music and Baroque repertoire.
- 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: Joan Sobel Target entity description: Joan Sobel is a film editor best known for her work on critically acclaimed films such as "A Single Man."
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A.
Sally Kornbluth
Sally Kornbluth is an American cell biologist and academic leader who became the 18th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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B.
Barbara Robbins
Barbara Robbins is known as the wife of Jon Lindbergh, the son of famed aviator Charles Lindbergh.
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C.
Annette Lerner
Annette Lerner is a Washington, D.C.–area philanthropist and matriarch of the Lerner family, known for their real estate empire and former ownership of the Washington Nationals baseball team.
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D.
Lynne Hollander
Lynne Hollander is an American activist best known for her involvement in the 1960s Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley and her longtime partnership with fellow activist Mario Savio.
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E.
Judith Nelson
Judith Nelson was an American soprano known for her pioneering work and acclaimed performances in the early music and Baroque repertoire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
ⓘ
film editor ⓘ person ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Tom Ford ⓘ |
| editor | Joan Sobel ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | A Single Man ⓘ |
| occupation | film editor ⓘ |
| workedOn | A Single Man ⓘ |
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: Joan Sobel Description of subject: Joan Sobel is a film editor best known for her work on critically acclaimed films such as "A Single Man."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.