Michael L. Printz
E1045390
advocate for young adult literature
librarian
literary award
person
school librarian
young adult book award
Michael L. Printz was an American school librarian and influential advocate for young adult literature, best known as the namesake of the Michael L. Printz Award honoring excellence in YA books.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Michael L. Printz canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13518175 — 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: Michael L. Printz Context triple: [Michael L. Printz Honor, namedAfter, Michael L. Printz]
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A.
Eric Hinton
Eric Hinton is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Hinton, though specific widely known public details about him are not established.
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B.
Katherine Paterson
Katherine Paterson is an acclaimed American author of children's and young adult literature, best known for novels such as "Bridge to Terabithia" and "Jacob Have I Loved."
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C.
Keary M. Engle
Keary M. Engle is an American chemist known for his research in synthetic organic and organometallic chemistry, particularly in the development of new catalytic methods for C–H functionalization.
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D.
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry is an American author best known for her award-winning young adult novels such as "The Giver" and "Number the Stars."
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E.
Val Goldman
Val Goldman is the son of a gay nightclub owner in the comedy film "The Birdcage," whose engagement to a conservative politician’s daughter drives the movie’s central conflict.
- 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: Michael L. Printz Target entity description: Michael L. Printz was an American school librarian and influential advocate for young adult literature, best known as the namesake of the Michael L. Printz Award honoring excellence in YA books.
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A.
Eric Hinton
Eric Hinton is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Hinton, though specific widely known public details about him are not established.
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B.
Katherine Paterson
Katherine Paterson is an acclaimed American author of children's and young adult literature, best known for novels such as "Bridge to Terabithia" and "Jacob Have I Loved."
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C.
Keary M. Engle
Keary M. Engle is an American chemist known for his research in synthetic organic and organometallic chemistry, particularly in the development of new catalytic methods for C–H functionalization.
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D.
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry is an American author best known for her award-winning young adult novels such as "The Giver" and "Number the Stars."
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E.
Val Goldman
Val Goldman is the son of a gay nightclub owner in the comedy film "The Birdcage," whose engagement to a conservative politician’s daughter drives the movie’s central conflict.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
advocate for young adult literature
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librarian ⓘ literary award ⓘ person ⓘ school librarian ⓘ young adult book award ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | library services for young adults ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
American Library Association
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Young Adult Library Services Association ⓘ |
| awardedFor | excellence in young adult literature ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | young adult literature ⓘ |
| genre |
young adult literature
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young adult literature ⓘ |
| hasAwardNamedAfter |
Michael L. Printz Award
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linked to:
Printz Award
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Michael L. Printz ⓘ |
| namesakeOf |
Michael L. Printz Award
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linked to:
Printz Award
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| notableFor |
advocacy for young adult literature
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influence on young adult librarianship ⓘ |
| occupation |
librarian
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school librarian ⓘ |
| presentedBy | American Library Association ⓘ |
| sponsor | Young Adult Library Services Association ⓘ |
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: Michael L. Printz Description of subject: Michael L. Printz was an American school librarian and influential advocate for young adult literature, best known as the namesake of the Michael L. Printz Award honoring excellence in YA books.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.