Jan Wagner
E417020
Jan Wagner is a contemporary German poet and essayist renowned for his finely crafted, image-rich verse and significant contributions to modern German-language literature.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jan Wagner canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4161063 — 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: Jan Wagner Context triple: [Georg Büchner Prize, hasAwarded, Jan Wagner]
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A.
Danny Wagner
Danny Wagner is the drummer for the American rock band Greta Van Fleet.
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B.
Christian Meyer
Christian Meyer is the husband of American author Stephenie Meyer, best known for her Twilight series.
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C.
Peter Vinnemeier
Peter Vinnemeier is a German entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the global hotel search and price comparison platform Trivago.
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D.
Christopher Scholz
Christopher Scholz is a prominent geophysicist renowned for his influential work on the mechanics of earthquakes and faulting.
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E.
Christian Weiss
Christian Weiss is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the given information.
- 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: Jan Wagner Target entity description: Jan Wagner is a contemporary German poet and essayist renowned for his finely crafted, image-rich verse and significant contributions to modern German-language literature.
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A.
Danny Wagner
Danny Wagner is the drummer for the American rock band Greta Van Fleet.
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B.
Christian Meyer
Christian Meyer is the husband of American author Stephenie Meyer, best known for her Twilight series.
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C.
Peter Vinnemeier
Peter Vinnemeier is a German entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the global hotel search and price comparison platform Trivago.
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D.
Christopher Scholz
Christopher Scholz is a prominent geophysicist renowned for his influential work on the mechanics of earthquakes and faulting.
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E.
Christian Weiss
Christian Weiss is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the given information.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German-language writer
ⓘ
essayist ⓘ human ⓘ poet ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Erich-Fried-Preis
NERFINISHED
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Georg-Büchner-Preis NERFINISHED ⓘ Hofmannsthal-Preis NERFINISHED ⓘ Kranichsteiner Literaturpreis ⓘ Mörike-Preis der Stadt Fellbach ⓘ Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1971-10-18 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Trinity College Dublin
ⓘ
Universität Hamburg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literary translation
ⓘ
literature ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| genre |
essay
ⓘ
poetry ⓘ |
| hasWrittenTextOn |
literary essays
ⓘ
modern German-language poetry ⓘ poetics ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Anglophone poetry
ⓘ
classical poetry ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
finely crafted, image-rich verse
ⓘ
revitalizing traditional poetic forms in contemporary German poetry ⓘ |
| languageOfExpression | German ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary German literature ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | first poet to win the Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse in the category Belletristik ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Achtzehn Pasteten
ⓘ
Australia ⓘ
surface form:
Australien
Die Eulenhasser in den Hallenhäusern ⓘ Guerickes Sperling ⓘ Regentonnenvariationen ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
ⓘ
poet ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Hamburg ⓘ |
| residence | Berlin ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 21st century ⓘ |
| translatedAuthor |
Charles Simic
ⓘ
Matthew Sweeney NERFINISHED ⓘ Simon Armitage ⓘ |
| translatedFromLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: Jan Wagner Description of subject: Jan Wagner is a contemporary German poet and essayist renowned for his finely crafted, image-rich verse and significant contributions to modern German-language literature.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.