Lois Lowry
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Lois Lowry is an American author best known for her award-winning young adult novels such as "The Giver" and "Number the Stars."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lois Lowry canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4409277 — 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: Lois Lowry Context triple: [Lowry, hasNotableBearer, Lois Lowry]
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A.
Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen is a prolific American author best known for her fantasy, science fiction, and children's literature, including works like "The Devil's Arithmetic" and "Owl Moon."
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B.
Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness is an acclaimed American-born British author best known for his young adult novels such as the "Chaos Walking" trilogy and "A Monster Calls."
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C.
Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak is an Australian novelist best known for his internationally acclaimed World War II–set novel "The Book Thief."
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D.
James Dashner
James Dashner is an American author best known for writing the young adult dystopian science fiction series "The Maze Runner."
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E.
Betty Smith
Betty Smith was an American author best known for her classic coming-of-age novel "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn."
- 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: Lois Lowry Target entity description: Lois Lowry is an American author best known for her award-winning young adult novels such as "The Giver" and "Number the Stars."
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A.
Jane Yolen
Jane Yolen is a prolific American author best known for her fantasy, science fiction, and children's literature, including works like "The Devil's Arithmetic" and "Owl Moon."
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B.
Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness is an acclaimed American-born British author best known for his young adult novels such as the "Chaos Walking" trilogy and "A Monster Calls."
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C.
Markus Zusak
Markus Zusak is an Australian novelist best known for his internationally acclaimed World War II–set novel "The Book Thief."
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D.
James Dashner
James Dashner is an American author best known for writing the young adult dystopian science fiction series "The Maze Runner."
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E.
Betty Smith
Betty Smith was an American author best known for her classic coming-of-age novel "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
children's writer
ⓘ
human ⓘ novelist ⓘ young adult fiction writer ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
1990 Newbery Medal for Number the Stars
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linked to:
Newbery Medal
1994 Newbery Medal for The Giver ⓘ Newbery Medal ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1937-03-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brown University
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University of Southern Maine ⓘ |
| familyName | Lowry ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
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dystopian fiction ⓘ young adult literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Lois ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Giver (2014 film)
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linked to:
The Giver
|
| influencedGenre | modern young adult dystopian fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Lois Lowry ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
award-winning young adult novels
ⓘ
portrayal of complex themes for young readers ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Summer to Die
ⓘ
Anastasia Krupnik ⓘ
linked to:
Anastasia Krupnik (animated adaptations)
Gathering Blue ⓘ Messenger ⓘ Number the Stars ⓘ Son ⓘ The Giver ⓘ The Silent Boy ⓘ |
| numberOfChildren | 4 ⓘ |
| occupation |
children's author
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ writer ⓘ young adult author ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Honolulu, Hawaii, United States ⓘ |
| residence |
Massachusetts, United States
ⓘ
linked to:
Massachusetts
|
| series |
Anastasia Krupnik series
ⓘ
linked to:
Anastasia Krupnik (animated adaptations)
The Giver Quartet ⓘ
linked to:
Gathering Blue
|
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Donald Grey Lowry ⓘ |
| subjectOf | numerous literary criticism studies ⓘ |
| writingStyleCharacteristic | often explores themes of memory, individuality, and freedom ⓘ |
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: Lois Lowry Description of subject: Lois Lowry is an American author best known for her award-winning young adult novels such as "The Giver" and "Number the Stars."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.