Ottessa Moshfegh
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Ottessa Moshfegh is an American author known for her darkly comic, psychologically incisive novels and stories such as "Eileen" and "My Year of Rest and Relaxation."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ottessa Moshfegh canonical | 2 |
| Yasmin Moshfegh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9592337 — 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: Ottessa Moshfegh Context triple: [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hasPublished, Ottessa Moshfegh]
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A.
Lorrie Moore
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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B.
Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver is an American author best known for her provocative, psychologically incisive novels such as "We Need to Talk About Kevin."
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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.
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."
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E.
Sam Lipsyte
Sam Lipsyte is an American novelist and short story writer known for his darkly comic, satirical fiction exploring contemporary alienation and absurdity.
- 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: Ottessa Moshfegh Target entity description: Ottessa Moshfegh is an American author known for her darkly comic, psychologically incisive novels and stories such as "Eileen" and "My Year of Rest and Relaxation."
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A.
Lorrie Moore
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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B.
Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver is an American author best known for her provocative, psychologically incisive novels such as "We Need to Talk About Kevin."
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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.
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."
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E.
Sam Lipsyte
Sam Lipsyte is an American novelist and short story writer known for his darkly comic, satirical fiction exploring contemporary alienation and absurdity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Ottessa Moshfegh Description of subject: Ottessa Moshfegh is an American author known for her darkly comic, psychologically incisive novels and stories such as "Eileen" and "My Year of Rest and Relaxation."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Ottessa Moshfegh