Linda
E359195
Linda is a supporting character in the film "The Pursuit of Happyness," depicted as Chris Gardner’s struggling and increasingly distant partner amid the family’s financial hardships.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Linda canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3301116 — 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: Linda Context triple: [The Pursuit of Happyness, character, Linda]
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A.
Linda
Linda is a feminine given name of Germanic origin that became widely used in English-speaking countries in the 20th century.
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B.
Laurie
Laurie is a charming, wealthy, and impulsive young man who becomes a close friend and would-be suitor to the March sisters in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "Little Women."
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C.
Lillian
Lillian is the given name of Lil Hardin Armstrong, a pioneering American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and second wife of Louis Armstrong.
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D.
Diane
Diane is a feminine given name of Latin origin, derived from the name of the Roman goddess Diana.
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E.
Sandra
Sandra is the given name of Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court.
- 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: Linda Target entity description: Linda is a supporting character in the film "The Pursuit of Happyness," depicted as Chris Gardner’s struggling and increasingly distant partner amid the family’s financial hardships.
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A.
Linda
Linda is a feminine given name of Germanic origin that became widely used in English-speaking countries in the 20th century.
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B.
Laurie
Laurie is a charming, wealthy, and impulsive young man who becomes a close friend and would-be suitor to the March sisters in Louisa May Alcott’s novel "Little Women."
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C.
Lillian
Lillian is the given name of Lil Hardin Armstrong, a pioneering American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader, and second wife of Louis Armstrong.
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D.
Diane
Diane is a feminine given name of Latin origin, derived from the name of the Roman goddess Diana.
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E.
Sandra
Sandra is the given name of Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to serve as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Pursuit of Happyness ⓘ |
| associatedWith | financial hardship ⓘ |
| basedOn | real-life spouse of Chris Gardner ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
increasingly distant
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struggling ⓘ |
| conflictType |
economic stress
ⓘ
relationship breakdown ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| familyRole |
Chris Gardner’s partner
ⓘ
mother ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | biographical drama film ⓘ |
| inUniverseStatus | working-class adult ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | depicts strain of poverty on family relationships ⓘ |
| partnerOf | Chris Gardner ⓘ |
| partOfWork |
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006 film)
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linked to:
The Pursuit of Happyness
|
| portrayedIn | The Pursuit of Happyness ⓘ |
| relationshipDynamic | strained relationship with Chris Gardner ⓘ |
| roleInStory | supporting character ⓘ |
| setting | San Francisco ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Chris Gardner ⓘ |
| storyArc | grows distant from Chris Gardner as finances worsen ⓘ |
| themeAssociation |
emotional distance
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family instability ⓘ poverty ⓘ |
| timePeriod | early 1980s ⓘ |
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: Linda Description of subject: Linda is a supporting character in the film "The Pursuit of Happyness," depicted as Chris Gardner’s struggling and increasingly distant partner amid the family’s financial hardships.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.