Matt Bondurant
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Matt Bondurant is an American novelist and academic best known for his historical crime novel "The Wettest County in the World," which was adapted into the film "Lawless."
All labels observed (1)
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| Matt Bondurant canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4101175 — 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: Matt Bondurant Context triple: [Lawless, basedOnAuthor, Matt Bondurant]
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William Nolan
William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
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Paul Bransom
Paul Bransom was an American illustrator and wildlife artist best known for his detailed animal drawings in early 20th-century books and magazines.
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Jeff Foote
Jeff Foote is an American former professional basketball center best known for his standout collegiate career at Cornell University and subsequent play in international leagues and the NBA Development League.
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Jay Gorney
Jay Gorney was an American composer best known for writing socially conscious songs for Broadway and film, including the music for the classic Depression-era anthem "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"
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C.D. Bales
C.D. Bales is the witty, large-nosed fire chief and romantic lead portrayed by Steve Martin in the 1987 film "Roxanne," a modern retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac.
- 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: Matt Bondurant Target entity description: Matt Bondurant is an American novelist and academic best known for his historical crime novel "The Wettest County in the World," which was adapted into the film "Lawless."
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A.
William Nolan
William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
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B.
Paul Bransom
Paul Bransom was an American illustrator and wildlife artist best known for his detailed animal drawings in early 20th-century books and magazines.
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C.
Jeff Foote
Jeff Foote is an American former professional basketball center best known for his standout collegiate career at Cornell University and subsequent play in international leagues and the NBA Development League.
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D.
Jay Gorney
Jay Gorney was an American composer best known for writing socially conscious songs for Broadway and film, including the music for the classic Depression-era anthem "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"
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E.
C.D. Bales
C.D. Bales is the witty, large-nosed fire chief and romantic lead portrayed by Steve Martin in the 1987 film "Roxanne," a modern retelling of Cyrano de Bergerac.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American writer
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academic ⓘ film ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| author | Matt Bondurant ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Wettest County in the World ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
creative writing
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higher education ⓘ literature ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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historical crime fiction ⓘ historical fiction ⓘ |
| hasWrittenForm | prose ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | historical crime novel The Wettest County in the World ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Wettest County in the World ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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novelist ⓘ |
| workAdaptedAs | Lawless ⓘ |
| writingStyle | historical crime narrative ⓘ |
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: Matt Bondurant Description of subject: Matt Bondurant is an American novelist and academic best known for his historical crime novel "The Wettest County in the World," which was adapted into the film "Lawless."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.