Blake Nelson
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Blake Nelson is an American author known for his contemporary young adult novels that often explore teenage life and subcultures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Blake Nelson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13434694 — 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: Blake Nelson Context triple: [Paranoid Park, basedOnWorkAuthor, Blake Nelson]
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A.
Sam Nelson
Sam Nelson is an American musician and the son of rock and roll singer Ricky Nelson.
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B.
Tom Hiel
Tom Hiel is an American film and television composer known for scoring a variety of genre projects, including cult and horror films.
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C.
John Dahl
John Dahl is an American film and television director best known for his stylish neo-noir thrillers such as "Red Rock West" and "The Last Seduction."
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D.
Tony Bill
Tony Bill is an American film producer, director, and actor best known for producing the Oscar-winning film "The Sting" and directing movies such as "My Bodyguard."
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E.
Woody Platt
Woody Platt is an American bluegrass musician best known as a founding member, guitarist, and lead vocalist of the Grammy-winning band Steep Canyon Rangers.
- 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: Blake Nelson Target entity description: Blake Nelson is an American author known for his contemporary young adult novels that often explore teenage life and subcultures.
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A.
Sam Nelson
Sam Nelson is an American musician and the son of rock and roll singer Ricky Nelson.
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B.
Tom Hiel
Tom Hiel is an American film and television composer known for scoring a variety of genre projects, including cult and horror films.
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C.
John Dahl
John Dahl is an American film and television director best known for his stylish neo-noir thrillers such as "Red Rock West" and "The Last Seduction."
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D.
Tony Bill
Tony Bill is an American film producer, director, and actor best known for producing the Oscar-winning film "The Sting" and directing movies such as "My Bodyguard."
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E.
Woody Platt
Woody Platt is an American bluegrass musician best known as a founding member, guitarist, and lead vocalist of the Grammy-winning band Steep Canyon Rangers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ person ⓘ young adult fiction writer ⓘ |
| basedIn | Portland, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1965 ⓘ |
| director | Gus Van Sant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Evergreen State College
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
New York University ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary fiction
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young adult fiction ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
alternative music scene
ⓘ
punk subculture ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
addiction
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coming-of-age ⓘ high school life ⓘ relationships ⓘ teenage life ⓘ youth subcultures ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | depicting contemporary teenage culture ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Destroy All Cars
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dream School NERFINISHED ⓘ Earthquake Weather NERFINISHED ⓘ Gender Blender NERFINISHED ⓘ Girl NERFINISHED ⓘ Paranoid Park NERFINISHED ⓘ Prom Anonymous NERFINISHED ⓘ Recovery Road NERFINISHED ⓘ Rock Star Superstar NERFINISHED ⓘ The City Wants You Alone NERFINISHED ⓘ The New Rules of High School NERFINISHED ⓘ The Prince of Venice Beach NERFINISHED ⓘ They Came From Below NERFINISHED ⓘ User ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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writer ⓘ young adult author ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Portland, Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workAdaptedAs | Paranoid Park (2007 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
diary format
ⓘ
first-person narrative ⓘ |
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: Blake Nelson Description of subject: Blake Nelson is an American author known for his contemporary young adult novels that often explore teenage life and subcultures.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.