James Thurber
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James Thurber was an American humorist, cartoonist, and author renowned for his witty short stories and cartoons, many of which were published in The New Yorker.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Thurber canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10515169 — 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: James Thurber Context triple: [The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013 film), basedOnWorkBy, James Thurber]
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A.
Rawson Marshall Thurber
Rawson Marshall Thurber is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for directing mainstream comedies and action films such as "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story," "Central Intelligence," and "Red Notice."
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B.
Ormond Wilson
Ormond Wilson was a New Zealand politician, writer, and farmer known for his service as a Labour Party Member of Parliament and his contributions to New Zealand’s cultural and political life in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Walter R. Brooks
Walter R. Brooks was an American author best known for creating the talking horse character Mister Ed and for his humorous children's stories.
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D.
Cecil Layendecker
Cecil Layendecker is a relatively obscure individual known primarily by name, with no widely documented public achievements or biographical details.
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E.
Walter Brooks
Walter Brooks is an artist known for creating the cover artwork for science fiction publications, including Isaac Asimov’s novel "The End of Eternity."
- 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: James Thurber Target entity description: James Thurber was an American humorist, cartoonist, and author renowned for his witty short stories and cartoons, many of which were published in The New Yorker.
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A.
Rawson Marshall Thurber
Rawson Marshall Thurber is an American filmmaker and screenwriter known for directing mainstream comedies and action films such as "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story," "Central Intelligence," and "Red Notice."
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B.
Ormond Wilson
Ormond Wilson was a New Zealand politician, writer, and farmer known for his service as a Labour Party Member of Parliament and his contributions to New Zealand’s cultural and political life in the mid-20th century.
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C.
Walter R. Brooks
Walter R. Brooks was an American author best known for creating the talking horse character Mister Ed and for his humorous children's stories.
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D.
Cecil Layendecker
Cecil Layendecker is a relatively obscure individual known primarily by name, with no widely documented public achievements or biographical details.
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E.
Walter Brooks
Walter Brooks is an artist known for creating the cover artwork for science fiction publications, including Isaac Asimov’s novel "The End of Eternity."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cartoonist
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human ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| basedIn | New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | stroke ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1894-12-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1961-11-02 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Ohio State University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | The New Yorker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eyeCondition | partial blindness ⓘ |
| familyName | Thurber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cartooning
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humor writing ⓘ literature ⓘ |
| fullName | James Grover Thurber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
humor
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short story ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasChild | Rosemary Thurber NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSignatureWork | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | American humor writing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryService | World War I home-front service ⓘ |
| movement | American humor ⓘ |
| notableFor |
cartoons in The New Yorker
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witty short stories ⓘ |
| notablePublicationVenue | The New Yorker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated
NERFINISHED
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My Life and Hard Times NERFINISHED ⓘ The Catbird Seat NERFINISHED ⓘ The Secret Life of Walter Mitty NERFINISHED ⓘ The Thurber Carnival NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
cartoonist
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humorist ⓘ journalist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Columbus, Ohio, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| spouse |
Althea Adams
NERFINISHED
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Helen Wismer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
satirical
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whimsical ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: James Thurber Description of subject: James Thurber was an American humorist, cartoonist, and author renowned for his witty short stories and cartoons, many of which were published in The New Yorker.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013 film)