Ursula Hegi
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Ursula Hegi is a German-American author best known for her novels exploring German history and identity, particularly through works like "Stones from the River."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ursula Hegi canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13180468 — 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: Ursula Hegi Context triple: [Ursula, isUsedBy, Ursula Hegi]
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A.
Sandra Pullman
Sandra Pullman is a determined, by-the-book detective who leads a team of retired officers investigating cold cases in the British television series "New Tricks."
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B.
Gail Carson Levine
Gail Carson Levine is an American author best known for her Newbery Honor–winning children's fantasy novel "Ella Enchanted."
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C.
Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen is a prolific American author best known for her fantasy, science fiction, and children's literature, including works like "The Devil's Arithmetic" and "Owl Moon."
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D.
Freada Kapor Klein
Freada Kapor Klein is an American entrepreneur, activist, and philanthropist known for her work advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tech industry and co-founding the Kapor Center.
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E.
Deborah Hopkinson
Deborah Hopkinson is an American author best known for her historical fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults, often highlighting social justice and lesser-known figures from history.
- 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: Ursula Hegi Target entity description: Ursula Hegi is a German-American author best known for her novels exploring German history and identity, particularly through works like "Stones from the River."
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A.
Sandra Pullman
Sandra Pullman is a determined, by-the-book detective who leads a team of retired officers investigating cold cases in the British television series "New Tricks."
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B.
Gail Carson Levine
Gail Carson Levine is an American author best known for her Newbery Honor–winning children's fantasy novel "Ella Enchanted."
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C.
Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen is a prolific American author best known for her fantasy, science fiction, and children's literature, including works like "The Devil's Arithmetic" and "Owl Moon."
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D.
Freada Kapor Klein
Freada Kapor Klein is an American entrepreneur, activist, and philanthropist known for her work advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tech industry and co-founding the Kapor Center.
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E.
Deborah Hopkinson
Deborah Hopkinson is an American author best known for her historical fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults, often highlighting social justice and lesser-known figures from history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German-American writer
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author ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| alive | true ⓘ |
| author |
Ursula Hegi
NERFINISHED
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Ursula Hegi NERFINISHED ⓘ Ursula Hegi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
National Book Award shortlist
NERFINISHED
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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction nomination NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Germany
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United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1946-05-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of New Hampshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Hegi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
German history in literature
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fiction writing ⓘ identity and memory ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
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literary fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Ursula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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German ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary literature ⓘ |
| name | Ursula Hegi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | German-American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Children and Fire
NERFINISHED
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Floating in My Mother’s Palm NERFINISHED ⓘ Sacred Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Salt Dancers NERFINISHED ⓘ Stones from the River NERFINISHED ⓘ Tearing the Silence NERFINISHED ⓘ The Vision of Emma Blau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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professor ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Düsseldorf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | United States of America ⓘ |
| settingOfWork | fictional town of Burgdorf NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
German history
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German identity ⓘ World War II legacy ⓘ family relationships ⓘ small-town life ⓘ |
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: Ursula Hegi Description of subject: Ursula Hegi is a German-American author best known for her novels exploring German history and identity, particularly through works like "Stones from the River."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.