Jayne Anne Phillips
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Jayne Anne Phillips is an American author known for her emotionally intense, minimalist fiction that often explores working-class lives and family relationships.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jayne Anne Phillips canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12875613 — 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: Jayne Anne Phillips Context triple: [dirty realism, associatedWith, Jayne Anne Phillips]
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A.
Joyce Harwood
Joyce Harwood is a central femme fatale-style figure in the 1946 film noir "The Blue Dahlia," entangled in a web of murder, deception, and romantic tension.
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B.
Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie is an American author renowned for her incisive short stories and novels depicting contemporary life and relationships, often associated with the minimalist literary movement.
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C.
Julia Glass
Julia Glass is an American novelist best known for her National Book Award–winning novel "Three Junes."
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D.
Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist best known for works such as "A Thousand Acres," noted for her incisive explorations of family, morality, and Midwestern life.
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E.
Sue Miller
Sue Miller is the wife of American musician Jeff Tweedy, frontman of the band Wilco.
- 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: Jayne Anne Phillips Target entity description: Jayne Anne Phillips is an American author known for her emotionally intense, minimalist fiction that often explores working-class lives and family relationships.
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A.
Joyce Harwood
Joyce Harwood is a central femme fatale-style figure in the 1946 film noir "The Blue Dahlia," entangled in a web of murder, deception, and romantic tension.
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B.
Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie is an American author renowned for her incisive short stories and novels depicting contemporary life and relationships, often associated with the minimalist literary movement.
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C.
Julia Glass
Julia Glass is an American novelist best known for her National Book Award–winning novel "Three Junes."
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D.
Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist best known for works such as "A Thousand Acres," noted for her incisive explorations of family, morality, and Midwestern life.
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E.
Sue Miller
Sue Miller is the wife of American musician Jeff Tweedy, frontman of the band Wilco.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
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human ⓘ novelist ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1970s ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Guggenheim Fellowship
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National Book Award longlist (for Lark and Termite) NERFINISHED ⓘ National Book Critics Circle Award finalist (for Lark and Termite) ⓘ O. Henry Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-07-19 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Iowa Writers' Workshop
NERFINISHED
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WVU (West Virginia University) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Rutgers University–Newark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
fiction
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novels ⓘ short stories ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
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minimalist fiction ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
novel Lark and Termite
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
novel Machine Dreams NERFINISHED ⓘ novel MotherKind ⓘ novel Night Watch ⓘ novel Quiet Dell ⓘ novel Shelter ⓘ short story collection Black Tickets ⓘ short story collection Fast Lanes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | minimalism ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | emotionally intense, minimalist fiction about working-class and family life ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Black Tickets
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Fast Lanes NERFINISHED ⓘ Lark and Termite NERFINISHED ⓘ Machine Dreams NERFINISHED ⓘ MotherKind NERFINISHED ⓘ Night Watch NERFINISHED ⓘ Quiet Dell NERFINISHED ⓘ Shelter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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professor ⓘ short story writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Buckhannon, West Virginia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | founding director of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at Rutgers–Newark ⓘ |
| workFocus |
American life in the 20th century
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family relationships ⓘ working-class lives ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
compressed, lyrical language
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emotionally intense prose ⓘ |
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