Jesmyn
E351487
Jesmyn is a feminine given name most notably borne by the acclaimed American novelist Jesmyn Ward.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jesmyn canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3362192 — 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: Jesmyn Context triple: [Jesmyn Ward, givenName, Jesmyn]
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A.
Ja'Net DuBois
Ja'Net DuBois was an American actress and singer best known for her role as Willona Woods on the sitcom "Good Times" and for co-writing and singing the theme song for "The Jeffersons."
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B.
Morrison
Morrison is a common English and Scottish surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, sports, arts, and public life.
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C.
Morrison
Morrison is a small city in northwestern Illinois that serves as the administrative and commercial hub of Whiteside County.
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D.
Gyasi
Gyasi is a masculine given name most notably borne by American professional soccer player Gyasi Zardes.
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E.
Margo Jefferson
Margo Jefferson is an American cultural critic and author renowned for her incisive writing on race, class, and the arts.
- 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: Jesmyn Target entity description: Jesmyn is a feminine given name most notably borne by the acclaimed American novelist Jesmyn Ward.
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A.
Ja'Net DuBois
Ja'Net DuBois was an American actress and singer best known for her role as Willona Woods on the sitcom "Good Times" and for co-writing and singing the theme song for "The Jeffersons."
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B.
Morrison
Morrison is a common English and Scottish surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, sports, arts, and public life.
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C.
Morrison
Morrison is a small city in northwestern Illinois that serves as the administrative and commercial hub of Whiteside County.
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D.
Gyasi
Gyasi is a masculine given name most notably borne by American professional soccer player Gyasi Zardes.
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E.
Margo Jefferson
Margo Jefferson is an American cultural critic and author renowned for her incisive writing on race, class, and the arts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
feminine given name
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given name ⓘ human ⓘ novelist ⓘ professor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived | National Book Award for Fiction ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1977-04-01 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Stanford University
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University of Michigan ⓘ |
| familyName | Ward ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | literature ⓘ |
| gender |
female
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feminine ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern Gothic
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literary fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Jesmyn ⓘ |
| grewUpIn | DeLisle, Mississippi ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableBearer | Jesmyn Ward ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Let Us Descend
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Men We Reaped ⓘ Salvage the Bones ⓘ Sing, Unburied, Sing ⓘ Where the Line Bleeds ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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university professor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Berkeley, California
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linked to:
Berkeley
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| usage | English ⓘ |
| writingFocus | African-American experience in the rural U.S. South ⓘ |
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: Jesmyn Description of subject: Jesmyn is a feminine given name most notably borne by the acclaimed American novelist Jesmyn Ward.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.