Zoë Heller
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Zoë Heller is a British novelist and journalist best known for her Booker Prize–shortlisted novel "Notes on a Scandal," which was adapted into an acclaimed film.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Zoë Heller canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13519324 — 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: Zoë Heller Context triple: [Notes on a Scandal, basedOnWorkBy, Zoë Heller]
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A.
Jennifer Haigh
Jennifer Haigh is an American novelist and short story writer known for her character-driven literary fiction exploring family, class, and the impact of the energy industry on small-town life.
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B.
Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver is an American author best known for her provocative, psychologically incisive novels such as "We Need to Talk About Kevin."
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C.
Deborah Moggach
Deborah Moggach is a British novelist and screenwriter known for works such as "Tulip Fever" and "These Foolish Things," the latter adapted into the film "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel."
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D.
Ali Smith
Ali Smith is a Scottish author acclaimed for her inventive, genre-blurring novels and short stories, including the seasonal quartet that begins with "Autumn."
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E.
Madeleine George
Madeleine George is an American playwright and author known for her sharp, witty explorations of gender, identity, and contemporary social issues.
- 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: Zoë Heller Target entity description: Zoë Heller is a British novelist and journalist best known for her Booker Prize–shortlisted novel "Notes on a Scandal," which was adapted into an acclaimed film.
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A.
Jennifer Haigh
Jennifer Haigh is an American novelist and short story writer known for her character-driven literary fiction exploring family, class, and the impact of the energy industry on small-town life.
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B.
Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver is an American author best known for her provocative, psychologically incisive novels such as "We Need to Talk About Kevin."
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C.
Deborah Moggach
Deborah Moggach is a British novelist and screenwriter known for works such as "Tulip Fever" and "These Foolish Things," the latter adapted into the film "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel."
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D.
Ali Smith
Ali Smith is a Scottish author acclaimed for her inventive, genre-blurring novels and short stories, including the seasonal quartet that begins with "Autumn."
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E.
Madeleine George
Madeleine George is an American playwright and author known for her sharp, witty explorations of gender, identity, and contemporary social issues.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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film director ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| adaptedInto | Notes on a Scandal (2006 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Zoë Heller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardNomination |
Booker Prize for Fiction
NERFINISHED
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Booker Prize for Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Notes on a Scandal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1965-07-07 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| child | Zoë Heller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University
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St Anne's College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
The Guardian
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Independent NERFINISHED ⓘ The New York Times ⓘ The New Yorker NERFINISHED ⓘ Vanity Fair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Heller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literature
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newspaper journalism ⓘ |
| genre |
journalism
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literary fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Zoë NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Karel Reisz
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lukas Heller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Zoë Heller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Everything You Know
NERFINISHED
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Notes on a Scandal NERFINISHED ⓘ The Believers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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novelist ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Lawrence Konner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
Everything You Know
NERFINISHED
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Notes on a Scandal NERFINISHED ⓘ The Believers 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: Zoë Heller Description of subject: Zoë Heller is a British novelist and journalist best known for her Booker Prize–shortlisted novel "Notes on a Scandal," which was adapted into an acclaimed film.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.