Thomas McGuane
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Thomas McGuane is an American novelist and screenwriter known for his sharp, darkly comic portrayals of the American West and contemporary rural life.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas McGuane canonical | 2 |
| Maggie McGuane | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11465362 — 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: Thomas McGuane Context triple: [The Missouri Breaks, screenwriter, Thomas McGuane]
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A.
Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison was an American author and poet best known for his novella "Legends of the Fall" and his vivid, nature-infused depictions of rural American life.
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B.
Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard was an American novelist and screenwriter renowned for his gritty crime fiction, sharp dialogue, and works such as "Rum Punch," "Get Shorty," and "Out of Sight."
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C.
Louis Davenport
Louis Davenport was a prominent early 20th-century hotelier and businessman best known for founding and developing the luxury Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington.
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D.
Charles Willeford
Charles Willeford was an American crime novelist and cult writer known for his darkly comic, offbeat hardboiled fiction, including the Hoke Moseley series.
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E.
John O'Hara
John O'Hara was an American novelist and short story writer best known for his sharp social realism in works such as "Appointment in Samarra" and "BUtterfield 8."
- 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: Thomas McGuane Target entity description: Thomas McGuane is an American novelist and screenwriter known for his sharp, darkly comic portrayals of the American West and contemporary rural life.
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A.
Jim Harrison
Jim Harrison was an American author and poet best known for his novella "Legends of the Fall" and his vivid, nature-infused depictions of rural American life.
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B.
Elmore Leonard
Elmore Leonard was an American novelist and screenwriter renowned for his gritty crime fiction, sharp dialogue, and works such as "Rum Punch," "Get Shorty," and "Out of Sight."
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C.
Louis Davenport
Louis Davenport was a prominent early 20th-century hotelier and businessman best known for founding and developing the luxury Davenport Hotel in Spokane, Washington.
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D.
Charles Willeford
Charles Willeford was an American crime novelist and cult writer known for his darkly comic, offbeat hardboiled fiction, including the Hoke Moseley series.
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E.
John O'Hara
John O'Hara was an American novelist and short story writer best known for his sharp social realism in works such as "Appointment in Samarra" and "BUtterfield 8."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
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human ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Rosenthal Award
NERFINISHED
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Western Literature Association Distinguished Achievement Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1939-12-11 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Michigan State University
NERFINISHED
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Yale School of Drama NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | McGuane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
Western fiction
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comic fiction ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWritingStyle |
dark humor
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sharp prose ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Thomas McGuane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
darkly comic portrayals of the American West
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depictions of contemporary rural life ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Crow Fair
NERFINISHED
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Driving on the Rim NERFINISHED ⓘ Gallatin Canyon NERFINISHED ⓘ Keep the Change NERFINISHED ⓘ Ninety-Two in the Shade NERFINISHED ⓘ Nobody’s Angel NERFINISHED ⓘ Nothing but Blue Skies NERFINISHED ⓘ Panama NERFINISHED ⓘ Some Horses NERFINISHED ⓘ Something to Be Desired NERFINISHED ⓘ The Bushwhacked Piano NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cadence of Grass NERFINISHED ⓘ The Longest Silence NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sporting Club NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
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novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Wyoming, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative | Jimmy Buffett NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Montana, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenplay |
92 in the Shade
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Rancho Deluxe NERFINISHED ⓘ The Missouri Breaks NERFINISHED ⓘ Tom Horn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Laurie Buffett
NERFINISHED
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Margot Kidder 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: Thomas McGuane Description of subject: Thomas McGuane is an American novelist and screenwriter known for his sharp, darkly comic portrayals of the American West and contemporary rural life.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Maggie McGuane