Joe R. Lansdale
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Joe R. Lansdale is an American author best known for his crime and horror fiction, particularly the Hap and Leonard novel series.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joe R. Lansdale canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13384624 — 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: Joe R. Lansdale Context triple: [Hap and Leonard, executiveProducer, Joe R. Lansdale]
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A.
Max Allan Collins
Max Allan Collins is an American mystery and crime writer best known for his graphic novel "Road to Perdition" and his extensive work in detective fiction and tie-in novels.
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B.
Charles Willeford
Charles Willeford was an American crime novelist and cult writer known for his darkly comic, offbeat hardboiled fiction, including the Hoke Moseley series.
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C.
Nathan Barr
Nathan Barr is an American film and television composer known for his atmospheric scores on projects ranging from horror films to acclaimed series like True Blood and The Americans.
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D.
Jon Raymond
Jon Raymond is an American writer and screenwriter known for his collaborations with filmmaker Kelly Reichardt and for co-writing the HBO miniseries "Mildred Pierce."
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E.
Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford is a film editor known for his work on major blockbuster movies, including several entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- 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: Joe R. Lansdale Target entity description: Joe R. Lansdale is an American author best known for his crime and horror fiction, particularly the Hap and Leonard novel series.
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A.
Max Allan Collins
Max Allan Collins is an American mystery and crime writer best known for his graphic novel "Road to Perdition" and his extensive work in detective fiction and tie-in novels.
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B.
Charles Willeford
Charles Willeford was an American crime novelist and cult writer known for his darkly comic, offbeat hardboiled fiction, including the Hoke Moseley series.
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C.
Nathan Barr
Nathan Barr is an American film and television composer known for his atmospheric scores on projects ranging from horror films to acclaimed series like True Blood and The Americans.
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D.
Jon Raymond
Jon Raymond is an American writer and screenwriter known for his collaborations with filmmaker Kelly Reichardt and for co-writing the HBO miniseries "Mildred Pierce."
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E.
Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford is a film editor known for his work on major blockbuster movies, including several entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
comic book writer
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human ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Bram Stoker Award
NERFINISHED
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British Fantasy Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Edgar Award NERFINISHED ⓘ World Horror Convention Grand Master Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951-10-28 ⓘ |
| familyName | Lansdale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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dark fantasy ⓘ horror fiction ⓘ mystery fiction ⓘ western fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Joe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Kasey Lansdale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Harper Lee
NERFINISHED
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Ray Bradbury NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard Matheson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Joe R. Lansdale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableCharacterCreated |
Hap Collins
NERFINISHED
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Leonard Pine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bubba Ho-Tep
NERFINISHED
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Edge of Dark Water NERFINISHED ⓘ Hap and Leonard NERFINISHED ⓘ Mucho Mojo NERFINISHED ⓘ Savage Season NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bottoms NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thicket NERFINISHED ⓘ Two-Bear Mambo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
comic book writer
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novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Gladewater, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Nacogdoches, Texas, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seriesCreatorOf | Hap and Leonard series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Karen Lansdale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workAdaptedAs |
Bubba Ho-Tep (film)
NERFINISHED
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Hap and Leonard (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writesAbout | East Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
colloquial dialogue
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use of dark humor ⓘ |
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: Joe R. Lansdale Description of subject: Joe R. Lansdale is an American author best known for his crime and horror fiction, particularly the Hap and Leonard novel series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.