John Dos Passos
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John Dos Passos was an American novelist and artist best known for his innovative, socially critical U.S.A. trilogy, which portrayed early 20th-century American life through experimental narrative techniques.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Dos Passos canonical | 17 |
| John Dos Passos bibliography | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T549101 — 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: John Dos Passos Context triple: [Lost Generation, hasNotableMember, John Dos Passos]
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Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was a 20th-century American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist renowned for his terse prose style and classics such as "The Old Man and the Sea," "A Farewell to Arms," and "For Whom the Bell Tolls."
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Clarence Edmonds Hemingway
Clarence Edmonds Hemingway was an American physician and the father of novelist Ernest Hemingway, known for his influence on Ernest’s early life and interests in nature and outdoor activities.
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C.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald was a prominent 20th-century American novelist and short story writer best known for portraying the Jazz Age in works such as "The Great Gatsby."
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D.
Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder was an American playwright and novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Our Town" and his exploration of universal human themes.
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E.
Frank Norris
Frank Norris was an American novelist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries known for his naturalistic works such as "McTeague" and "The Octopus," which explored the harsh realities of American life and capitalism.
- 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: John Dos Passos Target entity description: John Dos Passos was an American novelist and artist best known for his innovative, socially critical U.S.A. trilogy, which portrayed early 20th-century American life through experimental narrative techniques.
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A.
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway was a 20th-century American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist renowned for his terse prose style and classics such as "The Old Man and the Sea," "A Farewell to Arms," and "For Whom the Bell Tolls."
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B.
Clarence Edmonds Hemingway
Clarence Edmonds Hemingway was an American physician and the father of novelist Ernest Hemingway, known for his influence on Ernest’s early life and interests in nature and outdoor activities.
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C.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald was a prominent 20th-century American novelist and short story writer best known for portraying the Jazz Age in works such as "The Great Gatsby."
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D.
Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder was an American playwright and novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Our Town" and his exploration of universal human themes.
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E.
Frank Norris
Frank Norris was an American novelist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries known for his naturalistic works such as "McTeague" and "The Octopus," which explored the harsh realities of American life and capitalism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: John Dos Passos Description of subject: John Dos Passos was an American novelist and artist best known for his innovative, socially critical U.S.A. trilogy, which portrayed early 20th-century American life through experimental narrative techniques.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: John Dos Passos
subject linked to:
American Depression-era literature canon
subject linked to:
American Depression-era literature canon