Aline Kominsky-Crumb
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autobiographical comics artist
cartoonist
comics artist
feminist artist
graphic memoirist
person
underground cartoonist
Aline Kominsky-Crumb was an influential American underground cartoonist and graphic memoirist known for her raw, confessional, and feminist comics, as well as her collaborations with her husband, Robert Crumb.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Aline Kominsky-Crumb canonical | 7 |
| Kominsky-Crumb | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3236940 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aline Kominsky-Crumb Context triple: [Crumb, featuresPerson, Aline Kominsky-Crumb]
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A.
Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist and graphic memoirist best known for her long-running comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For" and her acclaimed graphic memoir "Fun Home."
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B.
Lisa Yuskavage
Lisa Yuskavage is an American painter known for her provocative, psychologically charged figurative works that blend classical techniques with contemporary, often eroticized imagery.
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C.
Margo Roth Spiegelman
Margo Roth Spiegelman is a mysterious, adventurous teenage girl whose disappearance drives the plot and emotional journey of John Green’s novel "Paper Towns."
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D.
Joan Cohl
Joan Cohl is best known as the wife and partner of Canadian film producer and Toronto International Film Festival co-founder Dusty Cohl.
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E.
Margene Heffman
Margene Heffman is a fictional character from the television drama series "Big Love," known as the youngest and most free-spirited wife in a modern polygamist family.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Aline Kominsky-Crumb Target entity description: Aline Kominsky-Crumb was an influential American underground cartoonist and graphic memoirist known for her raw, confessional, and feminist comics, as well as her collaborations with her husband, Robert Crumb.
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A.
Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel is an American cartoonist and graphic memoirist best known for her long-running comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For" and her acclaimed graphic memoir "Fun Home."
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B.
Lisa Yuskavage
Lisa Yuskavage is an American painter known for her provocative, psychologically charged figurative works that blend classical techniques with contemporary, often eroticized imagery.
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C.
Margo Roth Spiegelman
Margo Roth Spiegelman is a mysterious, adventurous teenage girl whose disappearance drives the plot and emotional journey of John Green’s novel "Paper Towns."
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D.
Joan Cohl
Joan Cohl is best known as the wife and partner of Canadian film producer and Toronto International Film Festival co-founder Dusty Cohl.
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E.
Margene Heffman
Margene Heffman is a fictional character from the television drama series "Big Love," known as the youngest and most free-spirited wife in a modern polygamist family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
autobiographical comics artist
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cartoonist ⓘ comics artist ⓘ feminist artist ⓘ graphic memoirist ⓘ person ⓘ underground cartoonist ⓘ |
| birthName | Aline Goldsmith ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith | Robert Crumb ⓘ |
| coCreatorOf | Dirty Laundry Comics ⓘ |
| coEdited | Twisted Sisters ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Diane Noomin ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName |
Goldsmith
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Kominsky-Crumb ⓘ
linked to:
Aline Kominsky-Crumb
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| fieldOfWork |
autobiographical art
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comics ⓘ graphic memoir ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiographical comics
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feminist comics ⓘ underground comix ⓘ |
| givenName | Aline ⓘ |
| hasPartInCreativeWork | character Aline (autobiographical persona) ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Sophie Crumb ⓘ |
| influenced | later generations of feminist cartoonists ⓘ |
| influencedBy | underground comix of the 1960s ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | underground comix movement ⓘ |
| name | Aline Kominsky-Crumb ⓘ |
| notableFor |
collaborations with Robert Crumb
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depicting domestic life in comics ⓘ feminist perspective in underground comix ⓘ pioneering women’s autobiographical comics ⓘ raw and confessional comics ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dirty Laundry Comics
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Love That Bunch ⓘ Need More Love ⓘ |
| occupation |
cartoonist
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comics writer ⓘ editor ⓘ graphic novelist ⓘ |
| residence | France ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Robert Crumb ⓘ |
| style |
confessional
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raw ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Aline Kominsky-Crumb Description of subject: Aline Kominsky-Crumb was an influential American underground cartoonist and graphic memoirist known for her raw, confessional, and feminist comics, as well as her collaborations with her husband, Robert Crumb.
Referenced by (8)
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linked to: Aline Kominsky-Crumb