Madeleine L’Engle
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Madeleine L’Engle was an American author best known for her Newbery Medal–winning science fantasy novel "A Wrinkle in Time" and its sequels, which blend speculative fiction with spiritual and philosophical themes.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Madeleine L’Engle canonical | 24 |
| Madeleine L'Engle | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6068086 — 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: Madeleine L’Engle Context triple: [Francis Thompson, hasInfluenced, Madeleine L’Engle]
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A.
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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B.
Susan Cooper
Susan Cooper is a British-born American author best known for her award-winning fantasy series "The Dark Is Rising."
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C.
Sandra Pullman
Sandra Pullman is a determined, by-the-book detective who leads a team of retired officers investigating cold cases in the British television series "New Tricks."
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D.
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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E.
Patricia P. Frank
Patricia P. Frank is a screenwriter known for her work on the classic comedy film "The Court Jester."
- 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: Madeleine L’Engle Target entity description: Madeleine L’Engle was an American author best known for her Newbery Medal–winning science fantasy novel "A Wrinkle in Time" and its sequels, which blend speculative fiction with spiritual and philosophical themes.
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A.
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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B.
Susan Cooper
Susan Cooper is a British-born American author best known for her award-winning fantasy series "The Dark Is Rising."
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C.
Sandra Pullman
Sandra Pullman is a determined, by-the-book detective who leads a team of retired officers investigating cold cases in the British television series "New Tricks."
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D.
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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E.
Patricia P. Frank
Patricia P. Frank is a screenwriter known for her work on the classic comedy film "The Court Jester."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Madeleine L’Engle Description of subject: Madeleine L’Engle was an American author best known for her Newbery Medal–winning science fantasy novel "A Wrinkle in Time" and its sequels, which blend speculative fiction with spiritual and philosophical themes.
Referenced by (27)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Francis Thompson (English poet)
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planet Camazotz
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Time Quintet
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linked to: Madeleine L’Engle