Edward Linn
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Edward Linn was an American writer and journalist best known for co-authoring notable memoirs, including the bank-robbery autobiography "Where the Money Was."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edward Linn canonical | 3 |
| Ed Linn | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6429908 — 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: Edward Linn Context triple: [Where the Money Was: The Memoirs of a Bank Robber, author, Edward Linn]
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A.
Charles B. Atwood
Charles B. Atwood was an American architect known for his influential work on Chicago’s late-19th-century architecture, including major contributions to the World’s Columbian Exposition and landmark buildings such as the Reliance Building.
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B.
George Corson
George Corson was a 19th-century British architect known for his significant contributions to the architectural landscape of Leeds, England.
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C.
John Gilleland
John Gilleland was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating the experimental Civil War-era Double-Barreled Cannon in Athens, Georgia.
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D.
R. R. Grovey
R. R. Grovey was the African American plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Grovey v. Townsend, which challenged racially discriminatory primary election practices in Texas.
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E.
Lewis F. Linn
Lewis F. Linn was a 19th-century American physician and U.S. Senator from Missouri known for his advocacy of U.S. expansion into the Oregon Territory.
- 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: Edward Linn Target entity description: Edward Linn was an American writer and journalist best known for co-authoring notable memoirs, including the bank-robbery autobiography "Where the Money Was."
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A.
Charles B. Atwood
Charles B. Atwood was an American architect known for his influential work on Chicago’s late-19th-century architecture, including major contributions to the World’s Columbian Exposition and landmark buildings such as the Reliance Building.
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B.
George Corson
George Corson was a 19th-century British architect known for his significant contributions to the architectural landscape of Leeds, England.
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C.
John Gilleland
John Gilleland was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating the experimental Civil War-era Double-Barreled Cannon in Athens, Georgia.
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D.
R. R. Grovey
R. R. Grovey was the African American plaintiff in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Grovey v. Townsend, which challenged racially discriminatory primary election practices in Texas.
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E.
Lewis F. Linn
Lewis F. Linn was a 19th-century American physician and U.S. Senator from Missouri known for his advocacy of U.S. expansion into the Oregon Territory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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journalist ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
memoir
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non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasRole | co-author of memoirs ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-authoring bank-robbery autobiography "Where the Money Was" ⓘ |
| notableWork | Where the Money Was ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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writer ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
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: Edward Linn Description of subject: Edward Linn was an American writer and journalist best known for co-authoring notable memoirs, including the bank-robbery autobiography "Where the Money Was."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Edward Linn