Richard Yates
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Richard Yates was an American novelist and short story writer best known for his bleak, incisive portrayals of mid-20th-century suburban disillusionment, particularly in his novel "Revolutionary Road."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Yates canonical | 16 |
| Richard Yates (novelist) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T684319 — 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: Richard Yates Context triple: [F. Scott Fitzgerald, influenced, Richard Yates]
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A.
Richard Yates
Richard Yates was an American politician who served as the Civil War–era governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. senator.
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B.
J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger was an American author best known for his influential novel "The Catcher in the Rye," which became a defining work of 20th-century literature and adolescent alienation.
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C.
Irving Morrow
Irving Morrow was an American architect best known for designing the Art Deco elements and iconic International Orange color scheme of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
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D.
Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt is an American novelist best known for her intricately plotted, literary thrillers such as "The Secret History," "The Little Friend," and the Pulitzer Prize–winning "The Goldfinch."
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E.
Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer was a prominent American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for works like "The Naked and the Dead" and for co-founding The Village Voice.
- 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: Richard Yates Target entity description: Richard Yates was an American novelist and short story writer best known for his bleak, incisive portrayals of mid-20th-century suburban disillusionment, particularly in his novel "Revolutionary Road."
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A.
Richard Yates
Richard Yates was an American politician who served as the Civil War–era governor of Illinois and later as a U.S. senator.
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B.
J. D. Salinger
J. D. Salinger was an American author best known for his influential novel "The Catcher in the Rye," which became a defining work of 20th-century literature and adolescent alienation.
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C.
Irving Morrow
Irving Morrow was an American architect best known for designing the Art Deco elements and iconic International Orange color scheme of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
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D.
Donna Tartt
Donna Tartt is an American novelist best known for her intricately plotted, literary thrillers such as "The Secret History," "The Little Friend," and the Pulitzer Prize–winning "The Goldfinch."
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E.
Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer was a prominent American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for works like "The Naked and the Dead" and for co-founding The Village Voice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ short story collection ⓘ short story collection ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| author |
Richard Yates
self-linksurface differs
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Richard Yates self-linksurface differs ⓘ Richard Yates self-linksurface differs ⓘ Richard Yates self-linksurface differs ⓘ Richard Yates self-linksurface differs ⓘ Richard Yates self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| describedAs |
bleak
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incisive ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
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literary fiction ⓘ realist fiction ⓘ realist fiction ⓘ |
| hasWrittenForm |
novel
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short story ⓘ |
| influenced | later American realist writers ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
marital conflict
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suburban disillusionment ⓘ |
| movement |
postwar American literature
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realism ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Special Providence
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Disturbing the Peace ⓘ Eleven Kinds of Loneliness ⓘ Liars in Love ⓘ Revolutionary Road ⓘ The Easter Parade ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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short story writer ⓘ |
| workFocus |
existential despair
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marital breakdown ⓘ mid-20th-century American life ⓘ suburban disillusionment ⓘ |
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: Richard Yates Description of subject: Richard Yates was an American novelist and short story writer best known for his bleak, incisive portrayals of mid-20th-century suburban disillusionment, particularly in his novel "Revolutionary Road."
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Revolutionary Road
subject surface form:
Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
subject surface form:
A Special Providence
subject surface form:
Disturbing the Peace
subject surface form:
The Easter Parade
subject surface form:
Liars in Love
this entity surface form:
Richard Yates (novelist)