Judith Thurman
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Judith Thurman is an American writer and biographer best known for her acclaimed literary biographies and long-form essays in The New Yorker.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Judith Thurman canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2008874 — 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: Judith Thurman Context triple: [Out of Africa, basedOnAuthor, Judith Thurman]
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A.
Judith Nelson
Judith Nelson was an American soprano known for her pioneering work and acclaimed performances in the early music and Baroque repertoire.
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B.
Judith Kaye
Judith Kaye was a pioneering American jurist who became the first woman and longest-serving Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.
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C.
Beverly Gage
Beverly Gage is an American historian and Yale professor known for her scholarship on 20th-century U.S. political history and her acclaimed biography of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
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D.
Maria Nuzberg
Maria Nuzberg was the wife of Vasily Stalin, the son of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
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E.
Lorraine Gottfried
Lorraine Gottfried is the birth name of American actress Lorraine Gary, best known for her role as Ellen Brody in the "Jaws" film 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: Judith Thurman Target entity description: Judith Thurman is an American writer and biographer best known for her acclaimed literary biographies and long-form essays in The New Yorker.
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A.
Judith Nelson
Judith Nelson was an American soprano known for her pioneering work and acclaimed performances in the early music and Baroque repertoire.
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B.
Judith Kaye
Judith Kaye was a pioneering American jurist who became the first woman and longest-serving Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals.
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C.
Beverly Gage
Beverly Gage is an American historian and Yale professor known for her scholarship on 20th-century U.S. political history and her acclaimed biography of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
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D.
Maria Nuzberg
Maria Nuzberg was the wife of Vasily Stalin, the son of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
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E.
Lorraine Gottfried
Lorraine Gottfried is the birth name of American actress Lorraine Gary, best known for her role as Ellen Brody in the "Jaws" film series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Judith Thurman Description of subject: Judith Thurman is an American writer and biographer best known for her acclaimed literary biographies and long-form essays in The New Yorker.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.