Paula McLain
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Paula McLain is an American novelist and memoirist best known for her historical fiction, particularly her bestselling novel "The Paris Wife" about Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley Richardson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paula McLain canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10788002 — 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: Paula McLain Context triple: [The Paris Wife, author, Paula McLain]
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A.
Rachel Sheinkin
Rachel Sheinkin is an American playwright and librettist best known for writing the Tony Award–winning book for the musical "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee."
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B.
Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks was an American actress known for her work in mid-20th-century films, television, and stage productions.
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C.
Kathleen Kent
Kathleen Kent is an American novelist known for her historical fiction, particularly works exploring the Salem witch trials and early American history.
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D.
Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett is an American novelist best known for her bestselling debut novel "The Help," which explores race relations and domestic life in 1960s Mississippi.
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E.
Sadie Jones
Sadie Jones is a British novelist best known for her award-winning debut novel "The Outcast" and subsequent works exploring family, trauma, and social constraint.
- 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: Paula McLain Target entity description: Paula McLain is an American novelist and memoirist best known for her historical fiction, particularly her bestselling novel "The Paris Wife" about Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley Richardson.
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A.
Rachel Sheinkin
Rachel Sheinkin is an American playwright and librettist best known for writing the Tony Award–winning book for the musical "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee."
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B.
Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks was an American actress known for her work in mid-20th-century films, television, and stage productions.
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C.
Kathleen Kent
Kathleen Kent is an American novelist known for her historical fiction, particularly works exploring the Salem witch trials and early American history.
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D.
Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett is an American novelist best known for her bestselling debut novel "The Help," which explores race relations and domestic life in 1960s Mississippi.
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E.
Sadie Jones
Sadie Jones is a British novelist best known for her award-winning debut novel "The Outcast" and subsequent works exploring family, trauma, and social constraint.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author of historical fiction
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memoir ⓘ memoirist ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| author |
Paula McLain
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Paula McLain ⓘ Paula McLain ⓘ Paula McLain ⓘ Paula McLain ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Fresno, California, United States
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linked to:
Fresno
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Michigan
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University of Michigan MFA program ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
fiction writing
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literature ⓘ memoir writing ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
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historical fiction ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ memoir ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Beryl Markham
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Ernest Hemingway ⓘ Hadley Richardson ⓘ Martha Gellhorn ⓘ |
| name | Paula McLain ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | author of New York Times bestselling novel The Paris Wife ⓘ |
| notableFor |
bestselling historical novels about women connected to famous men
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novel The Paris Wife ⓘ
linked to:
The Paris Wife
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| notableWork |
A Ticket to Ride
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Circling the Sun ⓘ Less of Her ⓘ Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses ⓘ Love and Ruin ⓘ Stumble, Gorgeous ⓘ The Paris Wife ⓘ When the Stars Go Dark ⓘ |
| occupation |
memoirist
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novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
character-driven historical narratives
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focus on women’s perspectives in history ⓘ |
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: Paula McLain Description of subject: Paula McLain is an American novelist and memoirist best known for her historical fiction, particularly her bestselling novel "The Paris Wife" about Ernest Hemingway’s first wife, Hadley Richardson.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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