Jonathan Harr
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Jonathan Harr is an American author and journalist best known for his nonfiction legal thriller "A Civil Action," which chronicles a landmark environmental lawsuit.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Harr canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7393706 — 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: Jonathan Harr Context triple: [A Civil Action, author, Jonathan Harr]
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A.
Eric Larson
Eric Larson was a prominent American animator and one of Disney’s legendary “Nine Old Men,” known for his influential work on many classic Disney films.
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B.
Mitchell Zuckoff
Mitchell Zuckoff is an American journalist, nonfiction author, and Boston University professor known for his narrative histories and investigative works, including the book that inspired the film "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi."
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C.
Kai Bird
Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
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D.
David Grann
David Grann is an American journalist and bestselling author known for his meticulously researched narrative nonfiction works such as "The Lost City of Z" and "Killers of the Flower Moon."
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E.
Ken Follett
Ken Follett is a bestselling Welsh author renowned for his historical and thriller novels, including "The Pillars of the Earth" and "Eye of the Needle."
- 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: Jonathan Harr Target entity description: Jonathan Harr is an American author and journalist best known for his nonfiction legal thriller "A Civil Action," which chronicles a landmark environmental lawsuit.
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A.
Eric Larson
Eric Larson was a prominent American animator and one of Disney’s legendary “Nine Old Men,” known for his influential work on many classic Disney films.
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B.
Mitchell Zuckoff
Mitchell Zuckoff is an American journalist, nonfiction author, and Boston University professor known for his narrative histories and investigative works, including the book that inspired the film "13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi."
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C.
Kai Bird
Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
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D.
David Grann
David Grann is an American journalist and bestselling author known for his meticulously researched narrative nonfiction works such as "The Lost City of Z" and "Killers of the Flower Moon."
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E.
Ken Follett
Ken Follett is a bestselling Welsh author renowned for his historical and thriller novels, including "The Pillars of the Earth" and "Eye of the Needle."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
journalist
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person ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction
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linked to:
National Book Critics Circle Award
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| basedIn | Northampton, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
College of William & Mary
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Marshall University ⓘ |
| employer | Smith College ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
investigative journalism
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narrative nonfiction ⓘ |
| genre |
legal thriller
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nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
Italian Baroque painting
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art history ⓘ environmental law ⓘ toxic tort litigation ⓘ |
| influencedBy | tradition of literary journalism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | chronicling a landmark environmental lawsuit in Woburn, Massachusetts in A Civil Action ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Civil Action
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The Lost Painting ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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nonfiction writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| positionHeld | writing instructor at Smith College ⓘ |
| workFocusesOn |
complex legal cases
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detailed real-world investigations ⓘ |
| writingStyle | narrative-driven investigative reporting ⓘ |
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: Jonathan Harr Description of subject: Jonathan Harr is an American author and journalist best known for his nonfiction legal thriller "A Civil Action," which chronicles a landmark environmental lawsuit.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.