Nic
E460621
Nic is one of the two lesbian mothers in the film "The Kids Are All Right," portrayed as a responsible, controlling physician whose family life is disrupted when her children seek out their sperm-donor father.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nic canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4642920 — 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: Nic Context triple: [The Kids Are All Right, character, Nic]
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A.
Nic
Nic is an entity characterized in opposition to "Mc," suggesting it embodies contrasting qualities, roles, or attributes within their shared context.
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B.
Nick
Nick is the given name of Nick Holonyak Jr., the American engineer and inventor widely known for creating the first practical visible-spectrum LED.
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C.
Nick
Nick is a character in the British stage comedy "Bedroom Farce," known for his involvement in the play’s interwoven romantic and domestic mishaps.
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D.
Nick
Nick is the NATO reporting name for the Japanese World War II twin-engine heavy fighter aircraft Kawasaki Ki-45.
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E.
Nick
Nick is the shortened name of Nearly Headless Nick, the ghost of Gryffindor House in the Harry Potter series.
- 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: Nic Target entity description: Nic is one of the two lesbian mothers in the film "The Kids Are All Right," portrayed as a responsible, controlling physician whose family life is disrupted when her children seek out their sperm-donor father.
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A.
Nic
Nic is an entity characterized in opposition to "Mc," suggesting it embodies contrasting qualities, roles, or attributes within their shared context.
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B.
Nick
Nick is the given name of Nick Holonyak Jr., the American engineer and inventor widely known for creating the first practical visible-spectrum LED.
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C.
Nick
Nick is a character in the British stage comedy "Bedroom Farce," known for his involvement in the play’s interwoven romantic and domestic mishaps.
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D.
Nick
Nick is the NATO reporting name for the Japanese World War II twin-engine heavy fighter aircraft Kawasaki Ki-45.
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E.
Nick
Nick is the shortened name of Nearly Headless Nick, the ghost of Gryffindor House in the Harry Potter series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Kids Are All Right ⓘ |
| appearsInGenre | comedy-drama film ⓘ |
| conflictCause | children seeking sperm-donor father ⓘ |
| conflictWith | Paul ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Lisa Cholodenko
ⓘ
Stuart Blumberg ⓘ |
| familyLifeDisruptedBy | arrival of sperm-donor father ⓘ |
| familyLifeStatusAtStart | stable ⓘ |
| familyStructure | same-sex parent family ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Joni
ⓘ
Laser ⓘ |
| hasGender | female ⓘ |
| hasSexualOrientation | lesbian ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Jules ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction | central protagonist ⓘ |
| occupation | physician ⓘ |
| parentType | lesbian mother ⓘ |
| personalityTrait | protective ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
controlling
ⓘ
responsible ⓘ strict ⓘ |
| relationshipToJoni | mother ⓘ |
| relationshipToLaser | mother ⓘ |
| roleInFamily |
authority figure
ⓘ
primary breadwinner ⓘ |
| setIn | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| sexualOrientationDepictedAs | non-problematic ⓘ |
| spouseGender | female ⓘ |
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: Nic Description of subject: Nic is one of the two lesbian mothers in the film "The Kids Are All Right," portrayed as a responsible, controlling physician whose family life is disrupted when her children seek out their sperm-donor father.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.