Walter Tevis
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Walter Tevis was an American novelist best known for his psychologically rich stories of outsiders and games, including the novels that inspired "The Hustler," "The Color of Money," and "The Queen’s Gambit."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Walter Tevis canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4567514 — 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: Walter Tevis Context triple: [The Hustler, authorOfSourceWork, Walter Tevis]
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A.
Irving Wallace
Irving Wallace was an American novelist and screenwriter known for his bestselling, often controversial, popular fiction exploring sexuality, power, and social issues.
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B.
William Goldman
William Goldman was an acclaimed American novelist and screenwriter known for works such as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Princess Bride."
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C.
Joseph Kesselring
Joseph Kesselring was an American playwright best known for writing the dark comedic stage play "Arsenic and Old Lace," which became a classic of 20th-century theater.
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D.
Irving Morrow
Irving Morrow was an American architect best known for designing the Art Deco elements and iconic International Orange color scheme of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
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E.
Lawrence Turman
Lawrence Turman is an American film producer best known for his work on influential Hollywood films and for his long career shaping and mentoring talent in the movie industry.
- 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: Walter Tevis Target entity description: Walter Tevis was an American novelist best known for his psychologically rich stories of outsiders and games, including the novels that inspired "The Hustler," "The Color of Money," and "The Queen’s Gambit."
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A.
Irving Wallace
Irving Wallace was an American novelist and screenwriter known for his bestselling, often controversial, popular fiction exploring sexuality, power, and social issues.
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B.
William Goldman
William Goldman was an acclaimed American novelist and screenwriter known for works such as "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Princess Bride."
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C.
Joseph Kesselring
Joseph Kesselring was an American playwright best known for writing the dark comedic stage play "Arsenic and Old Lace," which became a classic of 20th-century theater.
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D.
Irving Morrow
Irving Morrow was an American architect best known for designing the Art Deco elements and iconic International Orange color scheme of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
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E.
Lawrence Turman
Lawrence Turman is an American film producer best known for his work on influential Hollywood films and for his long career shaping and mentoring talent in the movie industry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American writer
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human ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ short story collection ⓘ |
| adaptedInto |
The Color of Money (1986 film)
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linked to:
The Color of Money
The Hustler (1961 film) ⓘ
linked to:
The Hustler
The Queen's Gambit (2020 miniseries) ⓘ
linked to:
The Queen's Gambit
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| author | Walter Tevis ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Tevis ⓘ |
| genre |
psychological fiction
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science fiction ⓘ sports fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Walter ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
chess
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pool ⓘ |
| name | Walter Tevis ⓘ |
| notableFor |
fiction about games such as pool and chess
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psychologically rich stories of outsiders ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Far from Home
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Mockingbird ⓘ The Color of Money ⓘ The Hustler ⓘ The Man Who Fell to Earth ⓘ The Queen's Gambit ⓘ
linked to:
The Queen's Gambit (novel)
The Steps of the Sun ⓘ |
| occupation |
English teacher
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novelist ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
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: Walter Tevis Description of subject: Walter Tevis was an American novelist best known for his psychologically rich stories of outsiders and games, including the novels that inspired "The Hustler," "The Color of Money," and "The Queen’s Gambit."
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Thomas Jerome Newton in The Man Who Fell to Earth
subject linked to:
Walter Tevis
subject linked to:
Vasily Borgov in Moscow