Arundhati Roy
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Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and activist best known for her Booker Prize–winning novel "The God of Small Things" and her outspoken political commentary on social and environmental justice.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Arundhati Roy canonical | 54 |
| Suzanna Arundhati Roy | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T60465 — 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: Arundhati Roy Context triple: [Sydney Peace Prize, hasRecipient, Arundhati Roy]
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A.
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist renowned for his magical realist works, particularly "Midnight's Children" and the controversial "The Satanic Verses."
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B.
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore was a pioneering Bengali poet, writer, composer, and philosopher whose works, including the poetry collection "Gitanjali," reshaped modern Indian literature and music and influenced global thought.
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C.
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is a renowned Canadian author and poet best known for her speculative fiction works such as "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Oryx and Crake."
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D.
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was a renowned American novelist, essayist, and professor celebrated for her powerful explorations of Black American life and identity in works such as "Beloved" and "Song of Solomon."
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E.
Hanan Ashrawi
Hanan Ashrawi is a Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar known internationally for her advocacy of Palestinian rights and involvement in Middle East peace negotiations.
- 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: Arundhati Roy Target entity description: Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and activist best known for her Booker Prize–winning novel "The God of Small Things" and her outspoken political commentary on social and environmental justice.
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A.
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie is a British-Indian novelist and essayist renowned for his magical realist works, particularly "Midnight's Children" and the controversial "The Satanic Verses."
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B.
Rabindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore was a pioneering Bengali poet, writer, composer, and philosopher whose works, including the poetry collection "Gitanjali," reshaped modern Indian literature and music and influenced global thought.
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C.
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood is a renowned Canadian author and poet best known for her speculative fiction works such as "The Handmaid's Tale" and "Oryx and Crake."
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D.
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was a renowned American novelist, essayist, and professor celebrated for her powerful explorations of Black American life and identity in works such as "Beloved" and "Song of Solomon."
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E.
Hanan Ashrawi
Hanan Ashrawi is a Palestinian legislator, activist, and scholar known internationally for her advocacy of Palestinian rights and involvement in Middle East peace negotiations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Arundhati Roy Description of subject: Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and activist best known for her Booker Prize–winning novel "The God of Small Things" and her outspoken political commentary on social and environmental justice.
Referenced by (55)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.