Caleb Carr
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Caleb Carr is an American military historian and novelist best known for his historical thriller "The Alienist."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Caleb Carr canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7617426 — 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: Caleb Carr Context triple: [Carr, hasNotableBearer, Caleb Carr]
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A.
Jeff Pearlman
Jeff Pearlman is an American sportswriter and author best known for his deeply reported, often controversial biographies of major sports figures and teams, including the Los Angeles Lakers dynasty that inspired the series "Winning Time."
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B.
Charles Frazier
Charles Frazier is an American novelist best known for his National Book Award–winning Civil War novel "Cold Mountain."
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C.
Nicholas Ferguson
Nicholas Ferguson is a British businessman and private equity executive best known as the founding figure behind the global investment firm Permira.
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D.
Jack Carr
Jack Carr is an actor known for his role in the film "Hellgate."
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E.
Nathan Barr
Nathan Barr is an American film and television composer known for his atmospheric scores on projects ranging from horror films to acclaimed series like True Blood and The Americans.
- 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: Caleb Carr Target entity description: Caleb Carr is an American military historian and novelist best known for his historical thriller "The Alienist."
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A.
Jeff Pearlman
Jeff Pearlman is an American sportswriter and author best known for his deeply reported, often controversial biographies of major sports figures and teams, including the Los Angeles Lakers dynasty that inspired the series "Winning Time."
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B.
Charles Frazier
Charles Frazier is an American novelist best known for his National Book Award–winning Civil War novel "Cold Mountain."
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C.
Nicholas Ferguson
Nicholas Ferguson is a British businessman and private equity executive best known as the founding figure behind the global investment firm Permira.
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D.
Jack Carr
Jack Carr is an actor known for his role in the film "Hellgate."
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E.
Nathan Barr
Nathan Barr is an American film and television composer known for his atmospheric scores on projects ranging from horror films to acclaimed series like True Blood and The Americans.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
military historian
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novelist ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1955-08-02 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Kenyon College
NERFINISHED
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New York University ⓘ |
| familyName | Carr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
historical fiction
ⓘ
military history ⓘ thriller fiction ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
historical fiction ⓘ historical thriller ⓘ |
| givenName | Caleb NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
history of warfare
ⓘ
military strategy ⓘ terrorism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Caleb Carr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | historical thriller novel "The Alienist" NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Killing Time
NERFINISHED
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The Alienist NERFINISHED ⓘ The Angel of Darkness NERFINISHED ⓘ The Italian Secretary NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lessons of Terror NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
historian
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journalist ⓘ military historian ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
New York
NERFINISHED
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New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| wrote |
Casing the Promised Land
NERFINISHED
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Killing Time NERFINISHED ⓘ Surrender, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ The Alienist NERFINISHED ⓘ The Angel of Darkness NERFINISHED ⓘ The Italian Secretary NERFINISHED ⓘ The Legend of Broken NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lessons of Terror NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Caleb Carr Description of subject: Caleb Carr is an American military historian and novelist best known for his historical thriller "The Alienist."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sara Howard