Stewart O'Nan
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Stewart O'Nan is an American novelist known for his quietly powerful, character-driven fiction that often explores the lives of ordinary people in contemporary America.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Stewart O'Nan canonical | 4 |
| Wally Lamb | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3757810 — 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: Stewart O'Nan Context triple: [Snow Angels, authorOfSourceWork, Stewart O'Nan]
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A.
Patrick DeWitt
Patrick DeWitt is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter best known for his darkly comic, genre-bending works such as the award-winning Western novel "The Sisters Brothers."
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B.
David Ebershoff
David Ebershoff is an American author and editor best known for his novel "The Danish Girl," which was adapted into an acclaimed feature film.
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C.
Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham is an American novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "The Hours," which reimagines Virginia Woolf’s "Mrs. Dalloway."
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D.
Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his novel "The Orphan Master's Son," which explores life in North Korea.
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E.
Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr is an American author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "All the Light We Cannot See," acclaimed for its lyrical prose and humanistic portrayal of World War II.
- 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: Stewart O'Nan Target entity description: Stewart O'Nan is an American novelist known for his quietly powerful, character-driven fiction that often explores the lives of ordinary people in contemporary America.
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A.
Patrick DeWitt
Patrick DeWitt is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter best known for his darkly comic, genre-bending works such as the award-winning Western novel "The Sisters Brothers."
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B.
David Ebershoff
David Ebershoff is an American author and editor best known for his novel "The Danish Girl," which was adapted into an acclaimed feature film.
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C.
Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham is an American novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "The Hours," which reimagines Virginia Woolf’s "Mrs. Dalloway."
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D.
Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his novel "The Orphan Master's Son," which explores life in North Korea.
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E.
Anthony Doerr
Anthony Doerr is an American author best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "All the Light We Cannot See," acclaimed for its lyrical prose and humanistic portrayal of World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Stewart O'Nan Description of subject: Stewart O'Nan is an American novelist known for his quietly powerful, character-driven fiction that often explores the lives of ordinary people in contemporary America.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.