Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist renowned for her sharp wit, acerbic humor, and influential role in the Algonquin Round Table literary circle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dorothy Parker canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2026880 — 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: Dorothy Parker Context triple: [Parker, hasNotableBearer, Dorothy Parker]
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A.
Dawn Powell
Dawn Powell was an American novelist, playwright, and satirist known for her sharp, witty portrayals of New York City life in the early to mid-20th century.
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B.
Alexander Woollcott
Alexander Woollcott was an American critic, commentator, and member of the Algonquin Round Table, known for his sharp wit and influential work in theater and radio.
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C.
Moss Hart
Moss Hart was a prominent American playwright and director best known for his Broadway collaborations with George S. Kaufman and his influential contributions to mid-20th-century theater and film.
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D.
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein was an American modernist writer and art collector known for her experimental prose and for hosting an influential Paris salon that nurtured artists and authors such as Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso.
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E.
H. L. Gilman
H. L. Gilman was an architect known for his role in designing Los Angeles Union Station, a landmark example of Mission Revival and Art Deco architecture.
- 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: Dorothy Parker Target entity description: Dorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist renowned for her sharp wit, acerbic humor, and influential role in the Algonquin Round Table literary circle.
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A.
Dawn Powell
Dawn Powell was an American novelist, playwright, and satirist known for her sharp, witty portrayals of New York City life in the early to mid-20th century.
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B.
Alexander Woollcott
Alexander Woollcott was an American critic, commentator, and member of the Algonquin Round Table, known for his sharp wit and influential work in theater and radio.
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C.
Moss Hart
Moss Hart was a prominent American playwright and director best known for his Broadway collaborations with George S. Kaufman and his influential contributions to mid-20th-century theater and film.
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D.
Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein was an American modernist writer and art collector known for her experimental prose and for hosting an influential Paris salon that nurtured artists and authors such as Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso.
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E.
H. L. Gilman
H. L. Gilman was an architect known for his role in designing Los Angeles Union Station, a landmark example of Mission Revival and Art Deco architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American writer
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essayist ⓘ human ⓘ literary critic ⓘ poet ⓘ satirist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| activity | civil rights activism ⓘ |
| bequest |
estate to Martin Luther King Jr.
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residual estate to NAACP ⓘ |
| birthName | Dorothy Rothschild ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1893-08-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1967-06-07 ⓘ |
| employer |
The New Yorker
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Vanity Fair ⓘ Vogue ⓘ |
| familyName |
Parker
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Rothschild ⓘ |
| fullName | Dorothy Parker self-link ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
humor
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poetry ⓘ satire ⓘ short story ⓘ |
| givenName | Dorothy ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Algonquin Round Table ⓘ |
| movement | Algonquin Round Table ⓘ |
| notableFor |
acerbic humor
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epigrams ⓘ sharp wit ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Telephone Call
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Big Blonde ⓘ Death and Taxes ⓘ Enough Rope ⓘ Sunset Gun ⓘ |
| occupation |
critic
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drama critic ⓘ poet ⓘ satirist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Long Branch, New Jersey
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surface form:
Long Branch, New Jersey, United States
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| placeOfDeath |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| politicalAlignment | left-wing ⓘ |
| religion | agnosticism ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| spouse |
Alan Campbell
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Edwin Pond Parker II ⓘ |
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: Dorothy Parker Description of subject: Dorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist renowned for her sharp wit, acerbic humor, and influential role in the Algonquin Round Table literary circle.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Candide