Norman Maclean
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Norman Maclean was an American author and scholar best known for his semi-autobiographical novella collection "A River Runs Through It and Other Stories," which reflects his deep ties to Montana, fly fishing, and family.
All labels observed (1)
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| Norman Maclean canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9102405 — 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: Norman Maclean Context triple: [A River Runs Through It, basedOn, Norman Maclean]
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Lewis Gaylord Clark
Lewis Gaylord Clark was a 19th-century American editor and writer best known for shaping literary culture through his long tenure at the influential New York periodical The Knickerbocker magazine.
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Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Walter Van Tilburg Clark was an American author best known for his classic Western novel "The Ox-Bow Incident," which explores themes of mob justice and moral responsibility.
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C.
Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson was an American modernist writer best known for his influential short story cycle "Winesburg, Ohio," which deeply explored small-town life and psychological realism.
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D.
J. Farrell MacDonald
J. Farrell MacDonald was an American character actor and occasional director known for his prolific work in early Hollywood cinema, particularly in silent films and early talkies.
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E.
Conrad Richter
Conrad Richter was an American novelist best known for his historical fiction depicting early American frontier life, including works such as "The Trees," "The Fields," and the Pulitzer Prize–winning "The Town."
- 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: Norman Maclean Target entity description: Norman Maclean was an American author and scholar best known for his semi-autobiographical novella collection "A River Runs Through It and Other Stories," which reflects his deep ties to Montana, fly fishing, and family.
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A.
Lewis Gaylord Clark
Lewis Gaylord Clark was a 19th-century American editor and writer best known for shaping literary culture through his long tenure at the influential New York periodical The Knickerbocker magazine.
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B.
Walter Van Tilburg Clark
Walter Van Tilburg Clark was an American author best known for his classic Western novel "The Ox-Bow Incident," which explores themes of mob justice and moral responsibility.
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C.
Sherwood Anderson
Sherwood Anderson was an American modernist writer best known for his influential short story cycle "Winesburg, Ohio," which deeply explored small-town life and psychological realism.
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D.
J. Farrell MacDonald
J. Farrell MacDonald was an American character actor and occasional director known for his prolific work in early Hollywood cinema, particularly in silent films and early talkies.
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E.
Conrad Richter
Conrad Richter was an American novelist best known for his historical fiction depicting early American frontier life, including works such as "The Trees," "The Fields," and the Pulitzer Prize–winning "The Town."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Norman Maclean Description of subject: Norman Maclean was an American author and scholar best known for his semi-autobiographical novella collection "A River Runs Through It and Other Stories," which reflects his deep ties to Montana, fly fishing, and family.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.