Richard Condon
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Richard Condon was an American novelist best known for his satirical and politically charged thrillers, including "The Manchurian Candidate."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Condon canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5042745 — 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: Richard Condon Context triple: [Winter Kills (novel), author, Richard Condon]
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A.
Walter Miller
Walter Miller was an early 20th-century American film actor known for his work in silent cinema.
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B.
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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C.
Henry Beam Piper
Henry Beam Piper was an American science fiction author best known for his mid-20th-century works such as the Terro-Human Future History stories and the novel "Little Fuzzy."
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D.
Richard Matheson
Richard Matheson was an American author and screenwriter renowned for his influential works of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, including the novel "I Am Legend" and numerous classic "The Twilight Zone" episodes.
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E.
Walter Tevis
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."
- 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: Richard Condon Target entity description: Richard Condon was an American novelist best known for his satirical and politically charged thrillers, including "The Manchurian Candidate."
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A.
Walter Miller
Walter Miller was an early 20th-century American film actor known for his work in silent cinema.
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B.
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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C.
Henry Beam Piper
Henry Beam Piper was an American science fiction author best known for his mid-20th-century works such as the Terro-Human Future History stories and the novel "Little Fuzzy."
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D.
Richard Matheson
Richard Matheson was an American author and screenwriter renowned for his influential works of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, including the novel "I Am Legend" and numerous classic "The Twilight Zone" episodes.
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E.
Walter Tevis
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."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart disease ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1915-03-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1996-04-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | DeWitt Clinton High School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Walt Disney Productions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literature
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political fiction ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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political thriller ⓘ satire ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Deborah Condon
NERFINISHED
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Wendy Condon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedWork |
film adaptation of Prizzi's Honor (1985)
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film adaptation of The Manchurian Candidate (1962) ⓘ film adaptation of The Manchurian Candidate (2004) ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| notableFor | satirical political thrillers ⓘ |
| notableWork |
An Infinity of Mirrors
NERFINISHED
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Mile High NERFINISHED ⓘ Prizzi's Honor NERFINISHED ⓘ The Manchurian Candidate NERFINISHED ⓘ The Manchurian Candidate (novel) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Oldest Confession NERFINISHED ⓘ The Vertical Smile NERFINISHED ⓘ Winter Kills NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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publicist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Dallas
NERFINISHED
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Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| residence |
Mexico
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Evelyn Hunt Condon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
politically charged
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satirical ⓘ |
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: Richard Condon Description of subject: Richard Condon was an American novelist best known for his satirical and politically charged thrillers, including "The Manchurian Candidate."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Winter Kills (novel)
subject surface form:
The Manchurian Candidate (1962 film)