Iris Steensma
E40008
Iris Steensma is the troubled teenage prostitute character from Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film "Taxi Driver," whose role became iconic through Jodie Foster’s acclaimed performance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Iris Steensma canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T197759 — 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: Iris Steensma Context triple: [Jodie Foster, portrayed, Iris Steensma]
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A.
Annik Penders
Annik Penders is a Belgian communications professional best known as the wife of Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo.
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B.
Leen ’t Hart
Leen ’t Hart was a prominent Dutch carillonneur and carillon designer known for his influential role in 20th-century carillon development and performance.
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C.
Joan Maetsuycker
Joan Maetsuycker was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who became one of the longest-serving and most influential leaders of the Dutch East India Company in Asia.
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D.
Emma Meesseman
Emma Meesseman is a Belgian professional basketball player and WNBA Finals MVP known for her versatile scoring, playmaking, and international success with both club teams and the Belgian national team.
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E.
Cecilia Nessen
Cecilia Nessen is a film producer best known for her work on the documentary "I Am Greta," which follows climate activist Greta Thunberg.
- 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: Iris Steensma Target entity description: Iris Steensma is the troubled teenage prostitute character from Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film "Taxi Driver," whose role became iconic through Jodie Foster’s acclaimed performance.
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A.
Annik Penders
Annik Penders is a Belgian communications professional best known as the wife of Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo.
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B.
Leen ’t Hart
Leen ’t Hart was a prominent Dutch carillonneur and carillon designer known for his influential role in 20th-century carillon development and performance.
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C.
Joan Maetsuycker
Joan Maetsuycker was a 17th-century Dutch colonial administrator who became one of the longest-serving and most influential leaders of the Dutch East India Company in Asia.
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D.
Emma Meesseman
Emma Meesseman is a Belgian professional basketball player and WNBA Finals MVP known for her versatile scoring, playmaking, and international success with both club teams and the Belgian national team.
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E.
Cecilia Nessen
Cecilia Nessen is a film producer best known for her work on the documentary "I Am Greta," which follows climate activist Greta Thunberg.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Iris Steensma Description of subject: Iris Steensma is the troubled teenage prostitute character from Martin Scorsese’s 1976 film "Taxi Driver," whose role became iconic through Jodie Foster’s acclaimed performance.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.