Leslie Marmon Silko
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Leslie Marmon Silko is a Native American (Laguna Pueblo) novelist, poet, and essayist whose work, including the acclaimed novel "Ceremony," is central to contemporary Indigenous literature in the United States.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Leslie Marmon Silko canonical | 8 |
| Silko | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T922537 — 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: Leslie Marmon Silko Context triple: [American Book Award, notableRecipient, Leslie Marmon Silko]
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Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros is a Mexican American writer best known for her influential coming-of-age novel "The House on Mango Street," which explores themes of identity, culture, and gender.
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B.
Kay Boyle
Kay Boyle was an American writer and political activist associated with the Lost Generation, known for her experimental fiction, poetry, and short stories set in Europe between the World Wars.
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C.
Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo is a Muscogee (Creek) Nation poet, musician, and writer who became the first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate and is celebrated for her powerful explorations of Indigenous identity, history, and resilience.
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D.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author renowned for her groundbreaking blend of autobiography, myth, and fiction in works such as "The Woman Warrior" and "China Men."
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E.
Alice Walker
Alice Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "The Color Purple" and her contributions to Black feminist literature.
- 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: Leslie Marmon Silko Target entity description: Leslie Marmon Silko is a Native American (Laguna Pueblo) novelist, poet, and essayist whose work, including the acclaimed novel "Ceremony," is central to contemporary Indigenous literature in the United States.
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A.
Sandra Cisneros
Sandra Cisneros is a Mexican American writer best known for her influential coming-of-age novel "The House on Mango Street," which explores themes of identity, culture, and gender.
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B.
Kay Boyle
Kay Boyle was an American writer and political activist associated with the Lost Generation, known for her experimental fiction, poetry, and short stories set in Europe between the World Wars.
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C.
Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo is a Muscogee (Creek) Nation poet, musician, and writer who became the first Native American U.S. Poet Laureate and is celebrated for her powerful explorations of Indigenous identity, history, and resilience.
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D.
Maxine Hong Kingston
Maxine Hong Kingston is a Chinese American author renowned for her groundbreaking blend of autobiography, myth, and fiction in works such as "The Woman Warrior" and "China Men."
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E.
Alice Walker
Alice Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "The Color Purple" and her contributions to Black feminist literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Leslie Marmon Silko Description of subject: Leslie Marmon Silko is a Native American (Laguna Pueblo) novelist, poet, and essayist whose work, including the acclaimed novel "Ceremony," is central to contemporary Indigenous literature in the United States.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Leslie Marmon Silko