Nicole Krauss
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Nicole Krauss is an acclaimed contemporary American novelist known for her introspective, formally inventive works such as "The History of Love" and "Great House," which often explore memory, identity, and Jewish history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nicole Krauss canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3718086 — 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: Nicole Krauss Context triple: [Jewish American literature, hasNotableAuthor, Nicole Krauss]
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A.
Claire Messud
Claire Messud is an American novelist and essayist best known for her psychologically incisive, character-driven fiction such as "The Emperor’s Children" and "The Woman Upstairs."
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B.
Andrea Barrett
Andrea Barrett is an American novelist and short story writer best known for her historically rich, science-infused fiction, including the National Book Award–winning collection "Ship Fever."
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C.
Diane Johnson
Diane Johnson is an American novelist and essayist best known for co-writing the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s "The Shining."
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D.
David Grossman
David Grossman is an acclaimed Israeli novelist and essayist known for his profound explorations of grief, conflict, and the human condition, particularly in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian experience.
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E.
Eyal Waldman
Eyal Waldman is an Israeli entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of high-performance networking company Mellanox Technologies.
- 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: Nicole Krauss Target entity description: Nicole Krauss is an acclaimed contemporary American novelist known for her introspective, formally inventive works such as "The History of Love" and "Great House," which often explore memory, identity, and Jewish history.
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A.
Claire Messud
Claire Messud is an American novelist and essayist best known for her psychologically incisive, character-driven fiction such as "The Emperor’s Children" and "The Woman Upstairs."
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B.
Andrea Barrett
Andrea Barrett is an American novelist and short story writer best known for her historically rich, science-infused fiction, including the National Book Award–winning collection "Ship Fever."
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C.
Diane Johnson
Diane Johnson is an American novelist and essayist best known for co-writing the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s "The Shining."
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D.
David Grossman
David Grossman is an acclaimed Israeli novelist and essayist known for his profound explorations of grief, conflict, and the human condition, particularly in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian experience.
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E.
Eyal Waldman
Eyal Waldman is an Israeli entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of high-performance networking company Mellanox Technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American novelist
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human ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ short story collection ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| author | Nicole Krauss ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Anisfield-Wolf Book Award
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International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award longlist ⓘ
linked to:
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
National Book Award nomination ⓘ
linked to:
National Book Award finalist
Orange Prize for Fiction shortlist ⓘ
linked to:
Orange Prize for Fiction
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Oxford University
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linked to:
University of Oxford
Somerville College, Oxford ⓘ Stanford University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans ⓘ |
| familyName | Krauss ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
fiction writing
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novel writing ⓘ short stories ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary fiction
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literary fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Nicole ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary literature ⓘ |
| name | Nicole Krauss ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
exploration of identity in fiction
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exploration of memory in fiction ⓘ representation of Jewish history in contemporary literature ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Forest Dark
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Great House ⓘ Man Walks Into a Room ⓘ The History of Love ⓘ To Be a Man ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
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novelist ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Jonathan Safran Foer ⓘ |
| writingLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: Nicole Krauss Description of subject: Nicole Krauss is an acclaimed contemporary American novelist known for her introspective, formally inventive works such as "The History of Love" and "Great House," which often explore memory, identity, and Jewish history.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.