Jeffrey Eugenides
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Jeffrey Eugenides is an American novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning book "Middlesex" and his debut novel "The Virgin Suicides."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jeffrey Eugenides canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9592265 — 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: Jeffrey Eugenides Context triple: [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hasPublished, Jeffrey Eugenides]
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A.
Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham is an American novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "The Hours," which reimagines Virginia Woolf’s "Mrs. Dalloway."
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B.
David Ebershoff
David Ebershoff is an American author and editor best known for his novel "The Danish Girl," which was adapted into an acclaimed feature film.
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C.
Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson is an acclaimed American novelist and essayist known for her deeply reflective, spiritually infused works such as "Housekeeping" and the Gilead series.
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D.
Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning, formally inventive novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad."
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E.
John Gardner
John Gardner was a prominent British legal philosopher known for his influential work on the nature of law, responsibility, and moral philosophy, particularly during his tenure as Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford.
- 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: Jeffrey Eugenides Target entity description: Jeffrey Eugenides is an American novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning book "Middlesex" and his debut novel "The Virgin Suicides."
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A.
Michael Cunningham
Michael Cunningham is an American novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "The Hours," which reimagines Virginia Woolf’s "Mrs. Dalloway."
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B.
David Ebershoff
David Ebershoff is an American author and editor best known for his novel "The Danish Girl," which was adapted into an acclaimed feature film.
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C.
Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson is an acclaimed American novelist and essayist known for her deeply reflective, spiritually infused works such as "Housekeeping" and the Gilead series.
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D.
Jennifer Egan
Jennifer Egan is an American novelist and short story writer best known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning, formally inventive novel "A Visit from the Goon Squad."
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E.
John Gardner
John Gardner was a prominent British legal philosopher known for his influential work on the nature of law, responsibility, and moral philosophy, particularly during his tenure as Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Oxford.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ professor ⓘ short story collection ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts
ⓘ
Master of Arts ⓘ |
| author |
Jeffrey Eugenides
NERFINISHED
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Jeffrey Eugenides NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeffrey Eugenides NERFINISHED ⓘ Jeffrey Eugenides NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
American Academy of Arts and Letters Award
NERFINISHED
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National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ⓘ Whiting Writers' Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1960-03-08 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brown University
ⓘ
Stanford University ⓘ |
| employer | Princeton University ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Greek ⓘ |
| familyName | Eugenides NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
fiction
ⓘ
literature ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
bildungsroman
ⓘ
coming-of-age fiction ⓘ family saga ⓘ fiction ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ postmodern literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Jeffrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | two children ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
James Joyce
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Marcel Proust NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Mann NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Jeffrey Eugenides NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAwardedFor | Middlesex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Middlesex
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Marriage Plot NERFINISHED ⓘ The Virgin Suicides NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
short story writer ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Detroit, Michigan, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor of Creative Writing ⓘ |
| publication |
Fresh Complaint
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Middlesex NERFINISHED ⓘ The Marriage Plot NERFINISHED ⓘ The Virgin Suicides NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDateOfWork | 1993 ⓘ |
| residence | Princeton, New Jersey, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Karen Yamauchi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Jeffrey Eugenides Description of subject: Jeffrey Eugenides is an American novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning book "Middlesex" and his debut novel "The Virgin Suicides."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.