Lehane
E272330
crime fiction writer
family name
human
mystery fiction writer
novel
novel series
novelist
screenwriter
surname
Lehane is the surname of Dennis Lehane, an American novelist known for his crime and mystery fiction, including works like "Mystic River" and the Kenzie-Gennaro series.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lehane canonical | 2 |
| Dennis Lehane novel universe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2490335 — 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: Lehane Context triple: [Dennis Lehane, familyName, Lehane]
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A.
Callahan
Callahan is a surname most notably associated with American singer-songwriter Bill Callahan, known for his introspective and minimalist folk music.
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B.
Callaghan
Callaghan is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals in politics, sports, and the arts.
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C.
Haggerty
Haggerty is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as business, politics, and the arts.
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D.
Wick
Wick is a small coastal town in the far north of Scotland, historically known as a fishing port and regional administrative center.
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E.
Masterson
Masterson is a surname most famously associated with Bat Masterson, the Old West lawman, gambler, and sportswriter.
- 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: Lehane Target entity description: Lehane is the surname of Dennis Lehane, an American novelist known for his crime and mystery fiction, including works like "Mystic River" and the Kenzie-Gennaro series.
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A.
Callahan
Callahan is a surname most notably associated with American singer-songwriter Bill Callahan, known for his introspective and minimalist folk music.
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B.
Callaghan
Callaghan is a surname of Irish origin borne by numerous notable individuals in politics, sports, and the arts.
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C.
Haggerty
Haggerty is a surname of Irish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as business, politics, and the arts.
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D.
Wick
Wick is a small coastal town in the far north of Scotland, historically known as a fishing port and regional administrative center.
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E.
Masterson
Masterson is a surname most famously associated with Bat Masterson, the Old West lawman, gambler, and sportswriter.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime fiction writer
ⓘ
family name ⓘ human ⓘ mystery fiction writer ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel series ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| author | Dennis Lehane ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Dorchester neighborhood of Boston
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Lehane ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
mystery fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Dennis ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Dennis Lehane ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Irish ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Angela Gennaro
ⓘ
linked to:
Angie Gennaro
Patrick Kenzie ⓘ
linked to:
Patrick Kenzie in Gone Baby Gone
|
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Gone, Baby, Gone
ⓘ
linked to:
Gone Baby Gone
Kenzie-Gennaro series ⓘ
linked to:
Kenzie and Gennaro series
Live by Night ⓘ Mystic River ⓘ Shutter Island ⓘ
linked to:
Shutter Island (novel)
|
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| partOfSeries |
Kenzie-Gennaro series
ⓘ
linked to:
Kenzie and Gennaro series
|
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: Lehane Description of subject: Lehane is the surname of Dennis Lehane, an American novelist known for his crime and mystery fiction, including works like "Mystic River" and the Kenzie-Gennaro series.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.