Lorrie Moore
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Lorrie Moore is an acclaimed American fiction writer best known for her witty, emotionally incisive short stories and novels such as "Birds of America" and "Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?".
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lorrie Moore canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9592298 — 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: Lorrie Moore Context triple: [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hasPublished, Lorrie Moore]
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A.
Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie is an American author renowned for her incisive short stories and novels depicting contemporary life and relationships, often associated with the minimalist literary movement.
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B.
Sue Miller
Sue Miller is the wife of American musician Jeff Tweedy, frontman of the band Wilco.
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C.
Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff is an acclaimed contemporary American novelist and short story writer known for works such as "Fates and Furies," "Matrix," and "Florida."
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D.
Andrea Barrett
Andrea Barrett is an American novelist and short story writer best known for her historically rich, science-infused fiction, including the National Book Award–winning collection "Ship Fever."
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E.
Claire Messud
Claire Messud is an American novelist and essayist best known for her psychologically incisive, character-driven fiction such as "The Emperor’s Children" and "The Woman Upstairs."
- 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: Lorrie Moore Target entity description: Lorrie Moore is an acclaimed American fiction writer best known for her witty, emotionally incisive short stories and novels such as "Birds of America" and "Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?".
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A.
Ann Beattie
Ann Beattie is an American author renowned for her incisive short stories and novels depicting contemporary life and relationships, often associated with the minimalist literary movement.
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B.
Sue Miller
Sue Miller is the wife of American musician Jeff Tweedy, frontman of the band Wilco.
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C.
Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff is an acclaimed contemporary American novelist and short story writer known for works such as "Fates and Furies," "Matrix," and "Florida."
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D.
Andrea Barrett
Andrea Barrett is an American novelist and short story writer best known for her historically rich, science-infused fiction, including the National Book Award–winning collection "Ship Fever."
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E.
Claire Messud
Claire Messud is an American novelist and essayist best known for her psychologically incisive, character-driven fiction such as "The Emperor’s Children" and "The Woman Upstairs."
- 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: Lorrie Moore Description of subject: Lorrie Moore is an acclaimed American fiction writer best known for her witty, emotionally incisive short stories and novels such as "Birds of America" and "Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?".
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.