Tom Perrotta
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Tom Perrotta is an American novelist and screenwriter known for his darkly comic, character-driven stories that often explore suburban life and moral ambiguity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Tom Perrotta canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10225561 — 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: Tom Perrotta Context triple: [The Leftovers, creator, Tom Perrotta]
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A.
Sam Lipsyte
Sam Lipsyte is an American novelist and short story writer known for his darkly comic, satirical fiction exploring contemporary alienation and absurdity.
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B.
David Greenwalt
David Greenwalt is an American television producer, writer, and director best known for his work on genre series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel.
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C.
Paul Rudnick
Paul Rudnick is an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter known for his sharp wit and contributions to both stage and film comedies.
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D.
Brian Koppelman
Brian Koppelman is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for co-writing films like "Rounders" and "Ocean's Thirteen" and co-creating the TV series "Billions."
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E.
Stephen Brooks
Stephen Brooks was an American actor best known for his television roles in the 1960s and 1970s, including appearances in crime and drama series.
- 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: Tom Perrotta Target entity description: Tom Perrotta is an American novelist and screenwriter known for his darkly comic, character-driven stories that often explore suburban life and moral ambiguity.
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A.
Sam Lipsyte
Sam Lipsyte is an American novelist and short story writer known for his darkly comic, satirical fiction exploring contemporary alienation and absurdity.
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B.
David Greenwalt
David Greenwalt is an American television producer, writer, and director best known for his work on genre series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel.
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C.
Paul Rudnick
Paul Rudnick is an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter known for his sharp wit and contributions to both stage and film comedies.
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D.
Brian Koppelman
Brian Koppelman is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for co-writing films like "Rounders" and "Ocean's Thirteen" and co-creating the TV series "Billions."
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E.
Stephen Brooks
Stephen Brooks was an American actor best known for his television roles in the 1960s and 1970s, including appearances in crime and drama series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| basedIn | Boston area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1961-08-13 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Syracuse University
NERFINISHED
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Yale University ⓘ |
| familyName | Perrotta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
dark comedy
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literary fiction ⓘ satire ⓘ |
| givenName | Tom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | son ⓘ |
| hasSpouse | Mary Granfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary American literature ⓘ |
| name | Tom Perrotta NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ⓘ |
| nominatedForWork | Little Children (screenplay) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAdaptationOfWork |
Election (1999 film)
NERFINISHED
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Little Children (2006 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ Mrs. Fletcher (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Leftovers (TV series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Bad Haircut
NERFINISHED
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Election NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe College NERFINISHED ⓘ Little Children NERFINISHED ⓘ Mrs. Fletcher NERFINISHED ⓘ Nine Inches NERFINISHED ⓘ The Abstinence Teacher NERFINISHED ⓘ The Leftovers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Leftovers: A Novel NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wishbones NERFINISHED ⓘ Tracy Flick Can’t Win NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Garwood, New Jersey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
character-driven
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darkly comic ⓘ |
| writingTheme |
moral ambiguity
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suburban life ⓘ |
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: Tom Perrotta Description of subject: Tom Perrotta is an American novelist and screenwriter known for his darkly comic, character-driven stories that often explore suburban life and moral ambiguity.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.