David Plante
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David Plante is an American novelist and memoirist known for his introspective, often spiritually themed works and his long-running "Franciscan" series.
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| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Plante canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6318382 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Plante Context triple: [Plante, hasNotableBearer, David Plante]
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A.
Matt Moulson
Matt Moulson is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger best known for his goal-scoring seasons in the NHL, particularly with the New York Islanders.
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B.
Ryan Suter
Ryan Suter is an American professional ice hockey defenseman known for his elite two-way play, heavy minutes, and long NHL career with teams including the Nashville Predators, Minnesota Wild, and Dallas Stars.
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C.
Ryan Callahan
Ryan Callahan is a former American professional ice hockey right winger best known as a longtime New York Rangers captain and gritty, two-way forward in the NHL.
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D.
Mark Giordano
Mark Giordano is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman and longtime NHL leader known for his tenure as captain of the Calgary Flames and his strong two-way play and community involvement.
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E.
Anthony Duclair
Anthony Duclair is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger known for his speed and scoring ability in the NHL, having played for multiple teams including the New York Rangers, Arizona Coyotes, and Florida Panthers.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Plante Target entity description: David Plante is an American novelist and memoirist known for his introspective, often spiritually themed works and his long-running "Franciscan" series.
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A.
Matt Moulson
Matt Moulson is a Canadian former professional ice hockey winger best known for his goal-scoring seasons in the NHL, particularly with the New York Islanders.
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B.
Ryan Suter
Ryan Suter is an American professional ice hockey defenseman known for his elite two-way play, heavy minutes, and long NHL career with teams including the Nashville Predators, Minnesota Wild, and Dallas Stars.
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C.
Ryan Callahan
Ryan Callahan is a former American professional ice hockey right winger best known as a longtime New York Rangers captain and gritty, two-way forward in the NHL.
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D.
Mark Giordano
Mark Giordano is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenseman and longtime NHL leader known for his tenure as captain of the Calgary Flames and his strong two-way play and community involvement.
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E.
Anthony Duclair
Anthony Duclair is a Canadian professional ice hockey winger known for his speed and scoring ability in the NHL, having played for multiple teams including the New York Rangers, Arizona Coyotes, and Florida Panthers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
memoirist
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novelist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1940 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Boston College
NERFINISHED
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University of Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Columbia University
ⓘ
The New School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiographical fiction
ⓘ
literary fiction ⓘ memoir ⓘ |
| hasWrittenFor |
The New York Times
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The New Yorker NERFINISHED ⓘ The Paris Review NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWrittenForm |
memoirs
ⓘ
novels ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | Catholic literature ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableSeries | Franciscan series ⓘ |
| notableWork |
American Ghosts
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Becoming a Londoner NERFINISHED ⓘ Difficult Women NERFINISHED ⓘ The Catholic NERFINISHED ⓘ The Family NERFINISHED ⓘ The Franciscans NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pure Lover NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
memoirist
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Providence, Rhode Island NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousBackground | Roman Catholic ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
New York City ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| workFocus |
introspective narratives
ⓘ
spiritual themes ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
introspective
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spiritually themed ⓘ |
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: David Plante Description of subject: David Plante is an American novelist and memoirist known for his introspective, often spiritually themed works and his long-running "Franciscan" series.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.