Linda Spalding
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Linda Spalding is a Canadian-American writer and editor known for her award-winning fiction and non-fiction, including works that explore history, identity, and moral complexity.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Linda Spalding canonical | 11 |
| Linda Thompson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2216573 — 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: Linda Spalding Context triple: [Michael Ondaatje, spouse, Linda Spalding]
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A.
Jennifer Butler
Jennifer Butler was an American costume designer best known for her long-term relationship and marriage to actor Bill Murray.
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B.
Jane Fulks
Jane Fulks is the birth name of Jane Wyman, the Academy Award–winning American actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan.
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C.
Caryn Elaine Johnson
Caryn Elaine Johnson is the birth name of Whoopi Goldberg, the acclaimed American actress, comedian, and television host.
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D.
Lyn Davis
Lyn Davis is best known as the wife of influential American television writer and producer Norman Lear.
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E.
Melinda Rogers
Melinda Rogers is a Canadian business executive and member of the Rogers family, known for her leadership roles within Rogers Communications.
- 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: Linda Spalding Target entity description: Linda Spalding is a Canadian-American writer and editor known for her award-winning fiction and non-fiction, including works that explore history, identity, and moral complexity.
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A.
Jennifer Butler
Jennifer Butler was an American costume designer best known for her long-term relationship and marriage to actor Bill Murray.
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B.
Jane Fulks
Jane Fulks is the birth name of Jane Wyman, the Academy Award–winning American actress and first wife of Ronald Reagan.
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C.
Caryn Elaine Johnson
Caryn Elaine Johnson is the birth name of Whoopi Goldberg, the acclaimed American actress, comedian, and television host.
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D.
Lyn Davis
Lyn Davis is best known as the wife of influential American television writer and producer Norman Lear.
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E.
Melinda Rogers
Melinda Rogers is a Canadian business executive and member of the Rogers family, known for her leadership roles within Rogers Communications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American writer
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Canadian writer ⓘ editor ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Governor General's Award for English-language fiction ⓘ |
| basedIn | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
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United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Hawaii
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linked to:
University of Hawaiʻi system
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| employer | Brick magazine ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
editing
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literature ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
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literary fiction ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Michael Ondaatje ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary literature ⓘ |
| nationality |
American
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Canadian ⓘ |
| notableAwardedWork | The Purchase ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Reckoning
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Daughters of Captain Cook ⓘ The Follow ⓘ The Purchase ⓘ Who Named the Knife ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kansas ⓘ |
| positionHeld | co-editor of Brick magazine ⓘ |
| residence | Toronto ⓘ |
| spouse | Michael Ondaatje ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
explores history
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explores identity ⓘ explores moral complexity ⓘ |
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: Linda Spalding Description of subject: Linda Spalding is a Canadian-American writer and editor known for her award-winning fiction and non-fiction, including works that explore history, identity, and moral complexity.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Linda Spalding