Floyd Dell
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Floyd Dell was an American writer, critic, and prominent figure in early 20th-century literary radicalism and bohemian culture.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Floyd Dell canonical | 22 |
| Floyd Dell is an American writer | 1 |
| Waldo Frank | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2128452 — 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: Floyd Dell Context triple: [The Liberator (magazine), editor, Floyd Dell]
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A.
Ward Bond
Ward Bond was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in classic Hollywood films and the television series "Wagon Train."
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B.
Lewis Warner
Lewis Warner is a member of the Warner family, known primarily as a son of early film industry pioneer Harry Warner, co-founder of Warner Bros.
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C.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
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D.
George Merrill
George Merrill is an American songwriter best known for co-writing Whitney Houston’s hit songs “How Will I Know” and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”
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E.
Wallace Thurman
Wallace Thurman was an American novelist, editor, and critic best known for his central role in the Harlem Renaissance and his novel "The Blacker the Berry."
- 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: Floyd Dell Target entity description: Floyd Dell was an American writer, critic, and prominent figure in early 20th-century literary radicalism and bohemian culture.
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A.
Ward Bond
Ward Bond was an American character actor best known for his prolific work in classic Hollywood films and the television series "Wagon Train."
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B.
Lewis Warner
Lewis Warner is a member of the Warner family, known primarily as a son of early film industry pioneer Harry Warner, co-founder of Warner Bros.
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C.
S. R. Hadden
S. R. Hadden is a wealthy, eccentric industrialist and visionary technologist who secretly funds and guides the search for extraterrestrial intelligence in Carl Sagan’s novel and film "Contact."
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D.
George Merrill
George Merrill is an American songwriter best known for co-writing Whitney Houston’s hit songs “How Will I Know” and “I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me).”
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E.
Wallace Thurman
Wallace Thurman was an American novelist, editor, and critic best known for his central role in the Harlem Renaissance and his novel "The Blacker the Berry."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
dramatist
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essayist ⓘ feminist ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ literary critic ⓘ novelist ⓘ socialist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1887-06-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1969-07-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | high school in Quincy, Illinois ⓘ |
| employer |
The Liberator
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The Masses ⓘ |
| familyName | Dell ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiography
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drama ⓘ fiction ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Floyd ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
Greenwich Village bohemianism
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feminism ⓘ literary radicalism ⓘ socialism ⓘ |
| name | Floyd Dell ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
participation in early 20th-century American literary radicalism
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role in Greenwich Village bohemian culture ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Homecoming
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Janet March ⓘ Love in Greenwich Village ⓘ Moon-Calf ⓘ The Briary Bush ⓘ Women as World Builders ⓘ |
| occupation |
critic
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editor ⓘ journalist ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Barry, Illinois ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Bethesda, Maryland ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment |
left-wing
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socialist movement in the United States ⓘ |
| positionHeld | literary editor of The Masses ⓘ |
| residence |
Chicago
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New York City ⓘ Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Edna Kenton
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Eleanor Kirkpatrick ⓘ Margery Currey ⓘ |
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: Floyd Dell Description of subject: Floyd Dell was an American writer, critic, and prominent figure in early 20th-century literary radicalism and bohemian culture.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Masses (magazine)
subject linked to:
The Masses (magazine)
linked to: Floyd Dell
linked to: Floyd Dell