David Shields (writer)
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David Shields is an American author and essayist known for his experimental, genre-blurring works on literature, culture, and the nature of reality, including the influential book "Reality Hunger."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Shields | 1 |
| David Shields (writer) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1163218 — 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: David Shields (writer) Context triple: [Lakeside School, hasAlumnus, David Shields (writer)]
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A.
Dan Jewett
Dan Jewett is an American science teacher known for his brief marriage to billionaire philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott.
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B.
Paul Vogel
Paul Vogel was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the Oscar-winning "Battleground."
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C.
Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem is an American novelist known for blending literary fiction with genre elements such as science fiction, detective stories, and pop culture, in works like "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude."
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D.
Derek Kolstad
Derek Kolstad is an American screenwriter best known as the creator and primary writer of the John Wick action film franchise.
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E.
Ed Oates
Ed Oates is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of Oracle Corporation, a pioneering company in relational database technology.
- 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: David Shields (writer) Target entity description: David Shields is an American author and essayist known for his experimental, genre-blurring works on literature, culture, and the nature of reality, including the influential book "Reality Hunger."
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A.
Dan Jewett
Dan Jewett is an American science teacher known for his brief marriage to billionaire philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott.
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B.
Paul Vogel
Paul Vogel was an American cinematographer best known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including the Oscar-winning "Battleground."
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C.
Jonathan Lethem
Jonathan Lethem is an American novelist known for blending literary fiction with genre elements such as science fiction, detective stories, and pop culture, in works like "Motherless Brooklyn" and "The Fortress of Solitude."
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D.
Derek Kolstad
Derek Kolstad is an American screenwriter best known as the creator and primary writer of the John Wick action film franchise.
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E.
Ed Oates
Ed Oates is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of Oracle Corporation, a pioneering company in relational database technology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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essayist ⓘ human ⓘ literary critic ⓘ memoirist ⓘ novelist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| author |
David Shields (writer)
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
David Shields
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brown University
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University of Iowa ⓘ |
| employer | University of Washington ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
creative writing
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cultural criticism ⓘ literature ⓘ |
| genre |
autofiction
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essay ⓘ literary collage ⓘ literary manifesto ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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English ⓘ |
| mainInterest |
contemporary culture
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literary form ⓘ nature of reality ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
collage literature
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literary form ⓘ reality in art ⓘ |
| movement |
experimental literature
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literary postmodernism ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Black Planet
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Enough About You ⓘ How Literature Saved My Life ⓘ Other People: Takes & Mistakes ⓘ Reality Hunger ⓘ Remote ⓘ The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ professor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
autobiographical
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collage-based ⓘ fragmentary ⓘ genre-blurring ⓘ |
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: David Shields (writer) Description of subject: David Shields is an American author and essayist known for his experimental, genre-blurring works on literature, culture, and the nature of reality, including the influential book "Reality Hunger."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Reality Hunger
this entity surface form:
David Shields