John Tracy Kidder
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John Tracy Kidder is an American author and Pulitzer Prize–winning literary journalist best known for his deeply reported nonfiction works such as "The Soul of a New Machine" and "Mountains Beyond Mountains."
All labels observed (1)
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| John Tracy Kidder canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4384701 — 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: John Tracy Kidder Context triple: [Tracy Kidder, birthName, John Tracy Kidder]
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John A. Griswold
John A. Griswold was a 19th-century American industrialist, U.S. Congressman from New York, and prominent figure in Troy’s iron and steel industry.
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B.
Sol Hurok
Sol Hurok was a renowned 20th-century impresario and arts promoter best known for bringing world-class musicians, dancers, and performing artists to American audiences.
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C.
Andreas Whittam Smith
Andreas Whittam Smith is a British journalist and newspaper editor best known as the founding editor of the UK national newspaper The Independent.
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D.
George Pardee
George Pardee was an American physician and Progressive-era politician who served as the 21st governor of California from 1903 to 1907.
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E.
John Ketcham
John Ketcham is a film producer best known for his work on the biographical sports drama "The Hurricane."
- 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: John Tracy Kidder Target entity description: John Tracy Kidder is an American author and Pulitzer Prize–winning literary journalist best known for his deeply reported nonfiction works such as "The Soul of a New Machine" and "Mountains Beyond Mountains."
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A.
John A. Griswold
John A. Griswold was a 19th-century American industrialist, U.S. Congressman from New York, and prominent figure in Troy’s iron and steel industry.
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B.
Sol Hurok
Sol Hurok was a renowned 20th-century impresario and arts promoter best known for bringing world-class musicians, dancers, and performing artists to American audiences.
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C.
Andreas Whittam Smith
Andreas Whittam Smith is a British journalist and newspaper editor best known as the founding editor of the UK national newspaper The Independent.
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D.
George Pardee
George Pardee was an American physician and Progressive-era politician who served as the 21st governor of California from 1903 to 1907.
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E.
John Ketcham
John Ketcham is a film producer best known for his work on the biographical sports drama "The Hurricane."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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book ⓘ book ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ literary journalist ⓘ nonfiction writer ⓘ |
| author | John Tracy Kidder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
National Book Award
NERFINISHED
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National Book Critics Circle Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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surface form:
Harvard College
University of Iowa Writers' Workshop NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Kidder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
journalism
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literature ⓘ narrative nonfiction ⓘ |
| genre |
literary journalism
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nonfiction ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | John Tracy Kidder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
deeply reported nonfiction books
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literary journalism about technology and medicine ⓘ portraits of institutions and individuals ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Among Schoolchildren
NERFINISHED
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Good Prose NERFINISHED ⓘ Hometown NERFINISHED ⓘ House ⓘ Mountains Beyond Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Friends NERFINISHED ⓘ Strength in What Remains NERFINISHED ⓘ The Soul of a New Machine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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journalist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
narrative nonfiction
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reportage-based storytelling ⓘ |
| wrote |
Among Schoolchildren
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Good Prose NERFINISHED ⓘ Hometown NERFINISHED ⓘ House NERFINISHED ⓘ Mountains Beyond Mountains NERFINISHED ⓘ Old Friends NERFINISHED ⓘ Strength in What Remains NERFINISHED ⓘ The Soul of a New Machine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: John Tracy Kidder Description of subject: John Tracy Kidder is an American author and Pulitzer Prize–winning literary journalist best known for his deeply reported nonfiction works such as "The Soul of a New Machine" and "Mountains Beyond Mountains."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.