Hortense Spillers
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Hortense Spillers is a prominent American literary critic and Black feminist theorist known for her influential work on African American literature, gender, and cultural theory.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13979992 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hortense Spillers Context triple: [The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, editor, Hortense Spillers]
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A.
Hortense Daigle
Hortense Daigle is a grieving, hard-drinking mother in Maxwell Anderson’s play and its film adaptation "The Bad Seed," whose suspicions about her son’s death drive key moments of tension and tragedy.
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B.
Hortense Powdermaker
Hortense Powdermaker was an American anthropologist and ethnographer known for her pioneering fieldwork on race relations, media, and modern industrial societies.
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C.
Hortense
Hortense is a feminine given name of French origin, historically borne by notable figures such as Queen Hortense de Beauharnais of Holland.
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D.
Bertha Honoré
Bertha Honoré was an American socialite and influential Chicago businesswoman and philanthropist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Huguette
Huguette is a French feminine given name, traditionally used as the female counterpart of Hugues.
- 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: Hortense Spillers Target entity description: Hortense Spillers is a prominent American literary critic and Black feminist theorist known for her influential work on African American literature, gender, and cultural theory.
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A.
Hortense Daigle
Hortense Daigle is a grieving, hard-drinking mother in Maxwell Anderson’s play and its film adaptation "The Bad Seed," whose suspicions about her son’s death drive key moments of tension and tragedy.
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B.
Hortense Powdermaker
Hortense Powdermaker was an American anthropologist and ethnographer known for her pioneering fieldwork on race relations, media, and modern industrial societies.
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C.
Hortense
Hortense is a feminine given name of French origin, historically borne by notable figures such as Queen Hortense de Beauharnais of Holland.
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D.
Bertha Honoré
Bertha Honoré was an American socialite and influential Chicago businesswoman and philanthropist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
Huguette
Huguette is a French feminine given name, traditionally used as the female counterpart of Hugues.
- F. None of above. chosen
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