Leslie Jamison
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Leslie Jamison is an American writer and essayist known for her emotionally incisive nonfiction works such as "The Empathy Exams" and "The Recovering."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Leslie Jamison canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9592348 — 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: Leslie Jamison Context triple: [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hasPublished, Leslie Jamison]
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A.
Julia Phillips
Julia Phillips was a pioneering American film producer and writer, best known for helping bring landmark 1970s films like "Taxi Driver" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" to the screen and for being the first female producer to win a Best Picture Oscar.
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B.
Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson is an American writer and critic known for her genre-blending works that combine memoir, theory, and cultural criticism, such as "The Argonauts."
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C.
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is an American writer, professor, and cultural critic known for her influential essays and books on feminism, race, body image, and pop culture, including the bestselling memoir "Hunger" and essay collection "Bad Feminist."
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D.
Garth Greenwell
Garth Greenwell is an American writer and critic best known for his acclaimed, lyrically written novels exploring queer desire, intimacy, and identity.
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E.
Sarah Neufeld
Sarah Neufeld is a Canadian violinist and composer best known for her work with the indie rock band Arcade Fire and her experimental solo and collaborative projects.
- 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: Leslie Jamison Target entity description: Leslie Jamison is an American writer and essayist known for her emotionally incisive nonfiction works such as "The Empathy Exams" and "The Recovering."
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A.
Julia Phillips
Julia Phillips was a pioneering American film producer and writer, best known for helping bring landmark 1970s films like "Taxi Driver" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" to the screen and for being the first female producer to win a Best Picture Oscar.
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B.
Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson is an American writer and critic known for her genre-blending works that combine memoir, theory, and cultural criticism, such as "The Argonauts."
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C.
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is an American writer, professor, and cultural critic known for her influential essays and books on feminism, race, body image, and pop culture, including the bestselling memoir "Hunger" and essay collection "Bad Feminist."
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D.
Garth Greenwell
Garth Greenwell is an American writer and critic best known for his acclaimed, lyrically written novels exploring queer desire, intimacy, and identity.
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E.
Sarah Neufeld
Sarah Neufeld is a Canadian violinist and composer best known for her work with the indie rock band Arcade Fire and her experimental solo and collaborative projects.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essay collection
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essayist ⓘ human ⓘ nonfiction book ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| author |
Leslie Jamison
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Leslie Jamison ⓘ Leslie Jamison ⓘ Leslie Jamison ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard University
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Iowa Writers' Workshop ⓘ Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | Columbia University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literary criticism
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literary nonfiction ⓘ memoir writing ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
essay
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memoir ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
Make It Scream, Make It Burn
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The Empathy Exams ⓘ The Gin Closet ⓘ The Recovering ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | emotionally incisive nonfiction ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Make It Scream, Make It Burn
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The Empathy Exams ⓘ The Gin Closet ⓘ The Recovering ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
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professor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| The Empathy Exams | instanceOf ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
addiction
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empathy ⓘ illness ⓘ intimacy ⓘ pain ⓘ recovery ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
autobiographical
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lyrical prose ⓘ reportorial ⓘ |
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: Leslie Jamison Description of subject: Leslie Jamison is an American writer and essayist known for her emotionally incisive nonfiction works such as "The Empathy Exams" and "The Recovering."
Referenced by (6)
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