D. T. Max
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D. T. Max is an American journalist and biographer known for his in-depth literary profiles and his acclaimed biography of David Foster Wallace.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| D. T. Max canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12886366 — 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: D. T. Max Context triple: [Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story, author, D. T. Max]
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A.
George Packer
George Packer is an American journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer best known for his political reporting and books such as "The Assassins' Gate" and "The Unwinding."
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B.
Marc Rosenthal
Marc Rosenthal is an American illustrator and cartoonist known for his humorous, retro-style artwork in children’s books and magazines.
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C.
Bennett Rosenthal
Bennett Rosenthal is an American businessman and private equity executive best known as a co-owner of the Major League Soccer club Los Angeles FC.
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D.
Frank Hohimer
Frank Hohimer is the pseudonymous author of the true-crime memoir "The Home Invaders," which chronicles the lives and methods of professional burglars.
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E.
Jeffrey Auerbach
Jeffrey Auerbach is a film producer best known for his work on the stop-motion animated feature "Corpse Bride."
- 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: D. T. Max Target entity description: D. T. Max is an American journalist and biographer known for his in-depth literary profiles and his acclaimed biography of David Foster Wallace.
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A.
George Packer
George Packer is an American journalist, novelist, and non-fiction writer best known for his political reporting and books such as "The Assassins' Gate" and "The Unwinding."
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B.
Marc Rosenthal
Marc Rosenthal is an American illustrator and cartoonist known for his humorous, retro-style artwork in children’s books and magazines.
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C.
Bennett Rosenthal
Bennett Rosenthal is an American businessman and private equity executive best known as a co-owner of the Major League Soccer club Los Angeles FC.
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D.
Frank Hohimer
Frank Hohimer is the pseudonymous author of the true-crime memoir "The Home Invaders," which chronicles the lives and methods of professional burglars.
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E.
Jeffrey Auerbach
Jeffrey Auerbach is a film producer best known for his work on the stop-motion animated feature "Corpse Bride."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
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: D. T. Max Description of subject: D. T. Max is an American journalist and biographer known for his in-depth literary profiles and his acclaimed biography of David Foster Wallace.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.