Dos Passos
E347944
Dos Passos is the surname of John Dos Passos, an influential American novelist best known for his modernist U.S.A. trilogy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dos Passos canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3331135 — 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: Dos Passos Context triple: [John Dos Passos, familyName, Dos Passos]
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A.
Bressant
Bressant is a novel by American author Julian Hawthorne, known as one of his early works in 19th-century fiction.
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B.
Tournier
Tournier is a surname of French origin, sometimes used as a variant of the English surname Turner.
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C.
Vidal
Vidal is a river flowing through the Occitanie region in southern France.
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D.
Bancroft
Bancroft is an English-origin surname borne by various notable figures in politics, academia, and the arts.
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E.
Scionzier
Scionzier is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department of southeastern France, situated in the French Alps.
- 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: Dos Passos Target entity description: Dos Passos is the surname of John Dos Passos, an influential American novelist best known for his modernist U.S.A. trilogy.
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A.
Bressant
Bressant is a novel by American author Julian Hawthorne, known as one of his early works in 19th-century fiction.
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B.
Tournier
Tournier is a surname of French origin, sometimes used as a variant of the English surname Turner.
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C.
Vidal
Vidal is a river flowing through the Occitanie region in southern France.
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D.
Bancroft
Bancroft is an English-origin surname borne by various notable figures in politics, academia, and the arts.
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E.
Scionzier
Scionzier is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department of southeastern France, situated in the French Alps.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Dos Passos Description of subject: Dos Passos is the surname of John Dos Passos, an influential American novelist best known for his modernist U.S.A. trilogy.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.