Michael Perry (author)
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Michael Perry is an American humorist and nonfiction author known for his memoirs about rural Midwestern life, including "Population: 485" and "Truck: A Love Story."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Perry (author) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2737163 — 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 Perry (author) Context triple: [Perry, hasNotableBearer, Michael Perry (author)]
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A.
David Hartnett
David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
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B.
Michael T. Good
Michael T. Good is a NASA astronaut and retired U.S. Air Force colonel who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions, including the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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C.
Dave Petley
Dave Petley is a British geographer and academic leader known for his research on landslides and for serving in senior university leadership roles in the UK.
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D.
Alan Webber
Alan Webber is an American politician and former business magazine co-founder who serves as the mayor of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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E.
Nicholas Hooper
Nicholas Hooper is a British film and television composer best known for scoring the Harry Potter films "Order of the Phoenix" and "Half-Blood Prince."
- 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 Perry (author) Target entity description: Michael Perry is an American humorist and nonfiction author known for his memoirs about rural Midwestern life, including "Population: 485" and "Truck: A Love Story."
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A.
David Hartnett
David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
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B.
Michael T. Good
Michael T. Good is a NASA astronaut and retired U.S. Air Force colonel who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions, including the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
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C.
Dave Petley
Dave Petley is a British geographer and academic leader known for his research on landslides and for serving in senior university leadership roles in the UK.
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D.
Alan Webber
Alan Webber is an American politician and former business magazine co-founder who serves as the mayor of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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E.
Nicholas Hooper
Nicholas Hooper is a British film and television composer best known for scoring the Harry Potter films "Order of the Phoenix" and "Half-Blood Prince."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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human ⓘ humorist ⓘ nonfiction writer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire ⓘ |
| genre |
humor
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memoir ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasActivity |
hosting radio programs
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public speaking ⓘ storytelling performances ⓘ |
| hasMusicalProject | band The Long Beds ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
faith and doubt
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family life ⓘ farming ⓘ volunteer firefighting ⓘ |
| hasWrittenForm |
books
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columns ⓘ essays ⓘ radio monologues ⓘ |
| knownFor |
blending humor with reflection
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memoirs about rural Midwestern life ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Coop: A Family, a Farm, and the Pursuit of One Good Egg
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Montaigne in Barn Boots ⓘ Population: 485 ⓘ Roughneck Grace ⓘ The Jesus Cow ⓘ Truck: A Love Story ⓘ Visiting Tom ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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humorist ⓘ musician ⓘ radio host ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Eau Claire, Wisconsin ⓘ |
| residence | rural Wisconsin ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
Midwestern United States
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rural life ⓘ small-town communities ⓘ |
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 Perry (author) Description of subject: Michael Perry is an American humorist and nonfiction author known for his memoirs about rural Midwestern life, including "Population: 485" and "Truck: A Love Story."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.