Gregory Maguire
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Gregory Maguire is an American novelist best known for his revisionist fairy-tale retellings, particularly the novel "Wicked," which reimagines the story of the Wicked Witch of the West.
All labels observed (1)
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| Gregory Maguire canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5161784 — 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: Gregory Maguire Context triple: [Wicked, basedOnAuthor, Gregory Maguire]
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A.
Terri Windling
Terri Windling is an American editor, author, and artist renowned for her influential work in fantasy literature and mythic arts.
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B.
Daveigh Chase
Daveigh Chase is an American actress and voice actress best known for voicing Lilo Pelekai in Disney's "Lilo & Stitch" and for her role as Samara in the horror film "The Ring."
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C.
Lois Lowry
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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D.
Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist best known as the author of *The Magicians* trilogy and as a longtime book critic for Time magazine.
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E.
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."
- 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: Gregory Maguire Target entity description: Gregory Maguire is an American novelist best known for his revisionist fairy-tale retellings, particularly the novel "Wicked," which reimagines the story of the Wicked Witch of the West.
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A.
Terri Windling
Terri Windling is an American editor, author, and artist renowned for her influential work in fantasy literature and mythic arts.
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B.
Daveigh Chase
Daveigh Chase is an American actress and voice actress best known for voicing Lilo Pelekai in Disney's "Lilo & Stitch" and for her role as Samara in the horror film "The Ring."
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C.
Lois Lowry
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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D.
Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist best known as the author of *The Magicians* trilogy and as a longtime book critic for Time magazine.
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E.
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."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: Gregory Maguire Description of subject: Gregory Maguire is an American novelist best known for his revisionist fairy-tale retellings, particularly the novel "Wicked," which reimagines the story of the Wicked Witch of the West.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.