Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002)
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Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002) is a published collection of David Sedaris’s personal diary entries spanning 25 years, offering candid, humorous, and often poignant glimpses into his life and development as a writer.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Theft by Finding | 1 |
| Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7827121 — 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: Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002) Context triple: [David Sedaris, notableWork, Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002)]
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A.
Theft: A Love Story
Theft: A Love Story is a darkly comic novel by Australian author Peter Carey that explores art, authenticity, and betrayal through the intertwined lives of a disgraced painter and his mentally disabled brother.
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B.
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Dispatches from Elsewhere is a surreal, character-driven anthology-style television series that blends mystery, whimsy, and emotional drama as ordinary people are drawn into an elaborate, reality-bending game.
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C.
Fugitive Pieces
Fugitive Pieces is a 2007 drama film adaptation of Anne Michaels’ novel, exploring memory, loss, and the lasting impact of the Holocaust through the life of a rescued Polish boy.
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D.
The Separate Notebooks
The Separate Notebooks is a poetry collection by Nobel Prize–winning Polish poet Czesław Miłosz that reflects on history, memory, and moral responsibility in the 20th century.
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E.
The Man Who Found Himself
The Man Who Found Himself is an early 20th-century American silent film drama produced by the Vitagraph Company of America.
- 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: Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002) Target entity description: Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002) is a published collection of David Sedaris’s personal diary entries spanning 25 years, offering candid, humorous, and often poignant glimpses into his life and development as a writer.
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A.
Theft: A Love Story
Theft: A Love Story is a darkly comic novel by Australian author Peter Carey that explores art, authenticity, and betrayal through the intertwined lives of a disgraced painter and his mentally disabled brother.
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B.
Dispatches from Elsewhere
Dispatches from Elsewhere is a surreal, character-driven anthology-style television series that blends mystery, whimsy, and emotional drama as ordinary people are drawn into an elaborate, reality-bending game.
-
C.
Fugitive Pieces
Fugitive Pieces is a 2007 drama film adaptation of Anne Michaels’ novel, exploring memory, loss, and the lasting impact of the Holocaust through the life of a rescued Polish boy.
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D.
The Separate Notebooks
The Separate Notebooks is a poetry collection by Nobel Prize–winning Polish poet Czesław Miłosz that reflects on history, memory, and moral responsibility in the 20th century.
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E.
The Man Who Found Himself
The Man Who Found Himself is an early 20th-century American silent film drama produced by the Vitagraph Company of America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
diary collection ⓘ |
| author | David Sedaris ⓘ |
| basedOn | David Sedaris’s personal diaries ⓘ |
| chronologicalOrder | chronologically arranged ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
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| depicts |
David Sedaris’s development as a writer
ⓘ
addiction and recovery ⓘ early performing and writing career ⓘ everyday life experiences ⓘ family relationships ⓘ work and odd jobs ⓘ |
| genre |
humor
ⓘ
memoir ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasPart |
diary entries from the 1980s
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diary entries from the 1990s ⓘ diary entries from the early 2000s ⓘ diary entries from the late 1970s ⓘ |
| hasTone |
candid
ⓘ
humorous ⓘ poignant ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
anecdotal
ⓘ
observational ⓘ self-deprecating ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
David Sedaris
ⓘ
personal diaries ⓘ writer’s life ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | diary entries ⓘ |
| notableFor |
revealing Sedaris’s early, unpolished voice
ⓘ
showing the origins of later essays ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
Calypso
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David Sedaris ⓘ Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim ⓘ Me Talk Pretty One Day ⓘ |
| targetAudience | adult readers ⓘ |
| timeSpanEnd | 2002 ⓘ |
| timeSpanStart | 1977 ⓘ |
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: Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002) Description of subject: Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002) is a published collection of David Sedaris’s personal diary entries spanning 25 years, offering candid, humorous, and often poignant glimpses into his life and development as a writer.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977–2002)