Kirsten Sheridan
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Kirsten Sheridan is an Irish film director and screenwriter known for character-driven dramas such as "August Rush" and "Disco Pigs."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Kirsten Sheridan canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9983387 — 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: Kirsten Sheridan Context triple: [August Rush, director, Kirsten Sheridan]
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A.
Kirsten Nelson
Kirsten Nelson is an American actress best known for her role as police chief Karen Vick on the television series "Psych."
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B.
Kirsten Corley
Kirsten Corley is an American former model and real estate agent best known as the wife of hip-hop artist Chance the Rapper.
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C.
Kirsten Johnson
Kirsten Johnson is an acclaimed American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer known for innovative, personal works such as "Cameraperson" and "Dick Johnson Is Dead."
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D.
Kirsten Elms
Kirsten Elms is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the horror film "Texas Chainsaw 3D."
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E.
Emily VanCamp
Emily VanCamp is a Canadian actress best known for her leading role as Emily Thorne/Amanda Clarke on the television drama series "Revenge" and for playing Sharon Carter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- 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: Kirsten Sheridan Target entity description: Kirsten Sheridan is an Irish film director and screenwriter known for character-driven dramas such as "August Rush" and "Disco Pigs."
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A.
Kirsten Nelson
Kirsten Nelson is an American actress best known for her role as police chief Karen Vick on the television series "Psych."
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B.
Kirsten Corley
Kirsten Corley is an American former model and real estate agent best known as the wife of hip-hop artist Chance the Rapper.
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C.
Kirsten Johnson
Kirsten Johnson is an acclaimed American documentary filmmaker and cinematographer known for innovative, personal works such as "Cameraperson" and "Dick Johnson Is Dead."
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D.
Kirsten Elms
Kirsten Elms is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the horror film "Texas Chainsaw 3D."
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E.
Emily VanCamp
Emily VanCamp is a Canadian actress best known for her leading role as Emily Thorne/Amanda Clarke on the television drama series "Revenge" and for playing Sharon Carter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film director
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human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st century ⓘ |
| basedIn | Dublin ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Ireland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Ireland ⓘ |
| coWriterOf | In America ⓘ |
| coWriterWith |
Jim Sheridan
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Naomi Sheridan ⓘ |
| directorOf |
August Rush
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Disco Pigs ⓘ Dollhouse ⓘ |
| familyName | Sheridan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
film
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre | drama film ⓘ |
| givenName | Kirsten ⓘ |
| knownFor | character-driven dramas ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Kirsten Sheridan ⓘ |
| nationality | Irish ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay ⓘ |
| nominatedForWork | In America ⓘ |
| notableWork |
August Rush
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Disco Pigs ⓘ Dollhouse ⓘ In America ⓘ |
| occupation |
film director
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| parent |
Fran Sheridan
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Jim Sheridan ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Dublin ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sibling |
Naomi Sheridan
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Toby Sheridan ⓘ |
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: Kirsten Sheridan Description of subject: Kirsten Sheridan is an Irish film director and screenwriter known for character-driven dramas such as "August Rush" and "Disco Pigs."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for In America
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screenwriterOfNominatedFilm
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Kirsten Sheridan
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subject linked to:
Disco Pigs (2001 film)