Jim Shepard
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Jim Shepard is an American author and screenwriter known for his critically acclaimed short stories and novels that often explore historical and speculative scenarios.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jim Shepard canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11597247 — 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: Jim Shepard Context triple: [The World to Come, screenwriter, Jim Shepard]
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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.
Paul Harding
Paul Harding is an American novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel "Tinkers."
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Brian Hartnett
Brian Hartnett is a notable individual distinguished enough in his field or public life to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the Hartnett surname.
- 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: Jim Shepard Target entity description: Jim Shepard is an American author and screenwriter known for his critically acclaimed short stories and novels that often explore historical and speculative scenarios.
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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.
Paul Harding
Paul Harding is an American novelist best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning debut novel "Tinkers."
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Brian Hartnett
Brian Hartnett is a notable individual distinguished enough in his field or public life to be specifically recognized as a bearer of the Hartnett surname.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novelist
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
PEN/New England Award
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linked to:
PEN New England Award
Story Prize ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
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literary fiction ⓘ speculative fiction ⓘ |
| hasWrittenForm |
novel
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screenplay ⓘ short story collection ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
historical settings in fiction
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short stories ⓘ speculative scenarios in fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Like You’d Understand, Anyway
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Love and Hydrogen ⓘ Project X ⓘ The Book of Aron ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| workFocusesOn |
historical events
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moral and ethical dilemmas ⓘ ordinary people in extreme situations ⓘ speculative scenarios ⓘ |
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: Jim Shepard Description of subject: Jim Shepard is an American author and screenwriter known for his critically acclaimed short stories and novels that often explore historical and speculative scenarios.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
short story "The World to Come" by Jim Shepard
subject linked to:
short story "The World to Come" by Jim Shepard