Aline Brosh McKenna
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Aline Brosh McKenna is an American screenwriter, producer, and director best known for her sharp, character-driven work on films and television series such as The Devil Wears Prada and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Aline Brosh McKenna canonical | 16 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1107778 — 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: Aline Brosh McKenna Context triple: [The Devil Wears Prada, screenwriter, Aline Brosh McKenna]
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A.
Anna Nolin
Anna Nolin is an American educator and school district leader who serves as superintendent of the Newton Public Schools in Massachusetts.
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B.
Jean Acker
Jean Acker was an American silent film actress best known as the first wife of movie icon Rudolph Valentino.
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C.
Maeve Cooke
Maeve Cooke is an Irish philosopher known for her work in critical social theory, democratic theory, and the philosophy of language, often engaging with and developing themes from contemporary German philosophy.
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D.
Ann Fleming
Ann Fleming was a British socialite and literary hostess best known as the wife of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and for her influential role in mid-20th-century London cultural circles.
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E.
Mary Fowler Brennan
Mary Fowler Brennan was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., known primarily for her role as his lifelong partner and supporter.
- 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: Aline Brosh McKenna Target entity description: Aline Brosh McKenna is an American screenwriter, producer, and director best known for her sharp, character-driven work on films and television series such as The Devil Wears Prada and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
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A.
Anna Nolin
Anna Nolin is an American educator and school district leader who serves as superintendent of the Newton Public Schools in Massachusetts.
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B.
Jean Acker
Jean Acker was an American silent film actress best known as the first wife of movie icon Rudolph Valentino.
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C.
Maeve Cooke
Maeve Cooke is an Irish philosopher known for her work in critical social theory, democratic theory, and the philosophy of language, often engaging with and developing themes from contemporary German philosophy.
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D.
Ann Fleming
Ann Fleming was a British socialite and literary hostess best known as the wife of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and for her influential role in mid-20th-century London cultural circles.
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E.
Mary Fowler Brennan
Mary Fowler Brennan was the wife of U.S. Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., known primarily for her role as his lifelong partner and supporter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Aline Brosh McKenna Description of subject: Aline Brosh McKenna is an American screenwriter, producer, and director best known for her sharp, character-driven work on films and television series such as The Devil Wears Prada and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (television series)
subject linked to:
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (television series)
subject linked to:
I Don’t Know How She Does It (2011 film)