Tess Slesinger
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Tess Slesinger was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter associated with leftist politics in the 1930s and 1940s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Tess Slesinger canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3201837 — 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: Tess Slesinger Context triple: [A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945 film), screenwriter, Tess Slesinger]
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A.
Bathsheba Zylberman
Bathsheba Zylberman was the mother of Nobel Prize–winning Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer and a formative influence from his traditional Jewish family background.
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B.
Mollie Steimer
Mollie Steimer was a Russian-born Jewish anarchist and political activist in the United States, known for her anti-war agitation, prosecution under the Espionage Act, and eventual deportation for her radical beliefs.
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C.
Matilda Shapiro
Matilda Shapiro was the wife of Polish-Jewish novelist and playwright Sholem Asch, a prominent figure in Yiddish literature.
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D.
Harriette Levine
Harriette Levine was the wife of American lawyer and Nuremberg prosecutor Telford Taylor.
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E.
Beatrice Silverman
Beatrice Silverman was the first wife of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer, whom he married while a student at Harvard.
- 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: Tess Slesinger Target entity description: Tess Slesinger was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter associated with leftist politics in the 1930s and 1940s.
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A.
Bathsheba Zylberman
Bathsheba Zylberman was the mother of Nobel Prize–winning Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer and a formative influence from his traditional Jewish family background.
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B.
Mollie Steimer
Mollie Steimer was a Russian-born Jewish anarchist and political activist in the United States, known for her anti-war agitation, prosecution under the Espionage Act, and eventual deportation for her radical beliefs.
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C.
Matilda Shapiro
Matilda Shapiro was the wife of Polish-Jewish novelist and playwright Sholem Asch, a prominent figure in Yiddish literature.
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D.
Harriette Levine
Harriette Levine was the wife of American lawyer and Nuremberg prosecutor Telford Taylor.
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E.
Beatrice Silverman
Beatrice Silverman was the first wife of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer, whom he married while a student at Harvard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American writer
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human ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
1930s
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1940s ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literature
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screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
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screenplays ⓘ short stories ⓘ |
| givenName | Theresa ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | American left-wing literary movement ⓘ |
| name | Tess Slesinger ⓘ |
| notableWork |
The Unpossessed
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Time: The Present ⓘ screenplays for Hollywood films ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| partOf |
20th-century American literature
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American literature ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | left-wing politics ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| subjectOf | studies of American leftist writers of the 1930s ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
| writingStyle | social realism ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Tess Slesinger Description of subject: Tess Slesinger was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter associated with leftist politics in the 1930s and 1940s.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.