Paul Harding
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Paul Harding is an American novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel "Tinkers."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul Harding canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10966562 — 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: Paul Harding Context triple: [Harding, hasNotableBearer, Paul Harding]
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A.
Adam Haslett
Adam Haslett is an American author and journalist known for his critically acclaimed fiction exploring themes of mental illness, family, and contemporary politics.
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B.
Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his novel "The Orphan Master's Son," which explores life in North Korea.
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C.
Greg Grabianski
Greg Grabianski is a screenwriter best known for his work on the parody horror-comedy film "Scary Movie 2."
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D.
T.C. Boyle
T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer known for his darkly comic, stylistically inventive fiction and exploration of social and environmental themes.
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E.
Stewart O'Nan
Stewart O'Nan is an American novelist known for his quietly powerful, character-driven fiction that often explores the lives of ordinary people in contemporary America.
- 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: Paul Harding Target entity description: Paul Harding is an American novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel "Tinkers."
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A.
Adam Haslett
Adam Haslett is an American author and journalist known for his critically acclaimed fiction exploring themes of mental illness, family, and contemporary politics.
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B.
Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his novel "The Orphan Master's Son," which explores life in North Korea.
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C.
Greg Grabianski
Greg Grabianski is a screenwriter best known for his work on the parody horror-comedy film "Scary Movie 2."
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D.
T.C. Boyle
T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer known for his darkly comic, stylistically inventive fiction and exploration of social and environmental themes.
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E.
Stewart O'Nan
Stewart O'Nan is an American novelist known for his quietly powerful, character-driven fiction that often explores the lives of ordinary people in contemporary America.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American novelist
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novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| author |
Paul Harding
NERFINISHED
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Paul Harding NERFINISHED ⓘ Paul Harding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
National Book Award for Fiction finalist
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PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize nomination NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| dateOfBirth | 1967 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Massachusetts Amherst NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| formerOccupation | drummer ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
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literary fiction ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ |
| language |
English
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English ⓘ English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Cold Water Flat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Paul Harding NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| notableWork |
Enon
NERFINISHED
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This Other Eden NERFINISHED ⓘ Tinkers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Wenham, Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publisher |
Bellevue Literary Press
NERFINISHED
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Bellevue Literary Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Massachusetts ⓘ |
| taughtAt |
Grinnell College
NERFINISHED
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Harvard University NERFINISHED ⓘ Iowa Writers' Workshop NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Paul Harding Description of subject: Paul Harding is an American novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel "Tinkers."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.