Diane Johnson
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Diane Johnson is an American novelist and essayist best known for co-writing the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s "The Shining."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Diane Johnson canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1725446 — 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: Diane Johnson Context triple: [The Shining (1980 film), screenwriter, Diane Johnson]
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A.
Andrea Barrett
Andrea Barrett is an American novelist and short story writer best known for her historically rich, science-infused fiction, including the National Book Award–winning collection "Ship Fever."
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B.
Nan A. Talese
Nan A. Talese is an American literary editor and publisher renowned for her eponymous imprint at Doubleday, which has published numerous acclaimed works of contemporary fiction and nonfiction.
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C.
Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson is an acclaimed American novelist and essayist known for her deeply reflective, spiritually infused works such as "Housekeeping" and the Gilead series.
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D.
Beverly Gage
Beverly Gage is an American historian and Yale professor known for her scholarship on 20th-century U.S. political history and her acclaimed biography of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
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E.
Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck is an American playwright, television writer, and producer known for her work on stage and screen, including creating the musical drama series "Smash."
- 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: Diane Johnson Target entity description: Diane Johnson is an American novelist and essayist best known for co-writing the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s "The Shining."
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A.
Andrea Barrett
Andrea Barrett is an American novelist and short story writer best known for her historically rich, science-infused fiction, including the National Book Award–winning collection "Ship Fever."
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B.
Nan A. Talese
Nan A. Talese is an American literary editor and publisher renowned for her eponymous imprint at Doubleday, which has published numerous acclaimed works of contemporary fiction and nonfiction.
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C.
Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson is an acclaimed American novelist and essayist known for her deeply reflective, spiritually infused works such as "Housekeeping" and the Gilead series.
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D.
Beverly Gage
Beverly Gage is an American historian and Yale professor known for her scholarship on 20th-century U.S. political history and her acclaimed biography of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
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E.
Theresa Rebeck
Theresa Rebeck is an American playwright, television writer, and producer known for her work on stage and screen, including creating the musical drama series "Smash."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Diane Johnson Description of subject: Diane Johnson is an American novelist and essayist best known for co-writing the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s "The Shining."
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Shining (1980 film)