Alia Shawkat
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Alia Shawkat is an American actress best known for her role as the quick-witted Maeby Fünke on the cult television sitcom "Arrested Development."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alia Shawkat canonical | 27 |
| Alia | 1 |
| Alia Martine Shawkat | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T713072 — 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: Alia Shawkat Context triple: [Arrested Development, stars, Alia Shawkat]
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A.
Adeena Sussman
Adeena Sussman is an American-Israeli cookbook author and food writer known for her vibrant, flavor-forward recipes and collaborations with prominent culinary figures.
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B.
Hailee Steinfeld
Hailee Steinfeld is an American actress and pop singer known for her Oscar-nominated role in "True Grit" and hit songs like "Love Myself" and "Starving."
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C.
Sarah Shahi
Sarah Shahi is an American actress and former NFL cheerleader best known for her roles in television series such as "Person of Interest," "The L Word," and "Sex/Life."
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D.
Zendaya
Zendaya is an American actress and singer best known for her acclaimed, Emmy-winning performance as Rue Bennett in the HBO drama series "Euphoria."
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E.
Kaitlin Olson
Kaitlin Olson is an American actress and comedian best known for playing Dee Reynolds on the long-running sitcom "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
- 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: Alia Shawkat Target entity description: Alia Shawkat is an American actress best known for her role as the quick-witted Maeby Fünke on the cult television sitcom "Arrested Development."
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A.
Adeena Sussman
Adeena Sussman is an American-Israeli cookbook author and food writer known for her vibrant, flavor-forward recipes and collaborations with prominent culinary figures.
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B.
Hailee Steinfeld
Hailee Steinfeld is an American actress and pop singer known for her Oscar-nominated role in "True Grit" and hit songs like "Love Myself" and "Starving."
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C.
Sarah Shahi
Sarah Shahi is an American actress and former NFL cheerleader best known for her roles in television series such as "Person of Interest," "The L Word," and "Sex/Life."
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D.
Zendaya
Zendaya is an American actress and singer best known for her acclaimed, Emmy-winning performance as Rue Bennett in the HBO drama series "Euphoria."
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E.
Kaitlin Olson
Kaitlin Olson is an American actress and comedian best known for playing Dee Reynolds on the long-running sitcom "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American actor
ⓘ
actress ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ television actor ⓘ voice actor ⓘ |
| activeInField |
film
ⓘ
independent film ⓘ television ⓘ |
| artForm |
drawing
ⓘ
painting ⓘ |
| birthName |
Alia Martine Shawkat
ⓘ
linked to:
Alia Shawkat
|
| characterPortrayed | Maeby Fünke ⓘ |
| characterPortrayedIn | Maeby Fünke in Arrested Development ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1989-04-18 ⓘ |
| ethnicBackground |
Iraqi
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ Norwegian ⓘ |
| familyName | Shawkat ⓘ |
| genreOfWork |
comedy (as an actress)
ⓘ
drama (as an actress) ⓘ |
| givenName |
Alia
ⓘ
linked to:
Alia Shawkat
|
| hasEyeColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasHairColor | brown ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Paul Burke ⓘ |
| hasReligion | raised in a Muslim and Catholic family (mixed background) ⓘ |
| knownFor | playing quick-witted Maeby Fünke on Arrested Development ⓘ |
| languagesSpoken | English ⓘ |
| name | Alia Shawkat ⓘ |
| notableAwardNomination | Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Arrested Development (ensemble) ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Arrested Development
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Broad City ⓘ Duck Butter ⓘ Search Party ⓘ State of Grace ⓘ The Final Girls ⓘ Transparent ⓘ Whip It ⓘ |
| occupation |
actress
ⓘ
artist ⓘ producer ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Riverside, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Riverside, California
|
| residence |
Los Angeles, California, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Los Angeles
|
| sexualOrientation | bisexual ⓘ |
| yearsActive | 1990s–present ⓘ |
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: Alia Shawkat Description of subject: Alia Shawkat is an American actress best known for her role as the quick-witted Maeby Fünke on the cult television sitcom "Arrested Development."
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.