Danilo Kiš
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Danilo Kiš was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and essayist known for his erudite, experimental prose and works such as "A Tomb for Boris Davidovich" and "Garden, Ashes."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Danilo Kiš canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9443264 — 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: Danilo Kiš Context triple: [Herder Prize, notableRecipient, Danilo Kiš]
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A.
Milovan Đilas
Milovan Đilas was a Yugoslav communist politician, theorist, and later prominent dissident known for his critique of communist bureaucracy and advocacy of democratic socialism.
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B.
Ivo Andrić
Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and Nobel Prize laureate best known for his historical novels about Bosnia, particularly "The Bridge on the Drina."
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C.
Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon is a Bosnian-American writer and essayist known for his inventive, multilingual prose and explorations of exile, identity, and war.
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D.
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera was a Czech-born French novelist and essayist best known for his philosophical and politically charged works such as "The Unbearable Lightness of Being."
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E.
Branko Šegota
Branko Šegota is a former Canadian indoor and outdoor soccer forward best known as one of the top scorers in North American indoor soccer history.
- 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: Danilo Kiš Target entity description: Danilo Kiš was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and essayist known for his erudite, experimental prose and works such as "A Tomb for Boris Davidovich" and "Garden, Ashes."
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A.
Milovan Đilas
Milovan Đilas was a Yugoslav communist politician, theorist, and later prominent dissident known for his critique of communist bureaucracy and advocacy of democratic socialism.
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B.
Ivo Andrić
Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and Nobel Prize laureate best known for his historical novels about Bosnia, particularly "The Bridge on the Drina."
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C.
Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon is a Bosnian-American writer and essayist known for his inventive, multilingual prose and explorations of exile, identity, and war.
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D.
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera was a Czech-born French novelist and essayist best known for his philosophical and politically charged works such as "The Unbearable Lightness of Being."
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E.
Branko Šegota
Branko Šegota is a former Canadian indoor and outdoor soccer forward best known as one of the top scorers in North American indoor soccer history.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
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novelist ⓘ person ⓘ short story writer ⓘ translator ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Grand Aigle d’or de la ville de Nice
NERFINISHED
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Herder Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ NIN Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Danilo Kiš NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Belgrade New Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | lung cancer ⓘ |
| citizenship | Yugoslavia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Kingdom of Yugoslavia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | France ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1935-02-22 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1989-10-15 ⓘ |
| describedAs | Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and essayist known for erudite, experimental prose ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Belgrade Faculty of Philology NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
University of Belgrade
NERFINISHED
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University of Strasbourg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin |
Jewish
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Serbian ⓘ |
| familyName | Kiš NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literature
ⓘ
translation ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
ⓘ
historical fiction ⓘ postmodern literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Danilo NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Bruno Schulz
NERFINISHED
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Central European literature ⓘ Franz Kafka NERFINISHED ⓘ James Joyce NERFINISHED ⓘ Jorge Luis Borges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWritten |
French
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Serbo-Croatian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
modernism
ⓘ
postmodernism ⓘ |
| name | Danilo Kiš NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Yugoslav ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Tomb for Boris Davidovich
NERFINISHED
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Garden, Ashes NERFINISHED ⓘ Hourglass NERFINISHED ⓘ The Encyclopedia of the Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
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novelist ⓘ short story writer ⓘ translator ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Subotica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Paris ⓘ |
| religion | atheism ⓘ |
| spouse | Mirjana Miočinović 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: Danilo Kiš Description of subject: Danilo Kiš was a Yugoslav novelist, short story writer, and essayist known for his erudite, experimental prose and works such as "A Tomb for Boris Davidovich" and "Garden, Ashes."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.