Marianne Wiggins
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Marianne Wiggins is an American novelist and short story writer known for her inventive, genre-blending fiction and for receiving honors such as the Whiting Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marianne Wiggins canonical | 9 |
| Margaret “Marny” Wiggin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T234302 — 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: Marianne Wiggins Context triple: [Salman Rushdie, spouse, Marianne Wiggins]
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A.
Elizabeth Flanagan
Elizabeth Flanagan was the wife of C. Everett Koop, the prominent U.S. Surgeon General known for his influential public health advocacy.
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B.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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C.
Mary Corinna Putnam
Mary Corinna Putnam was a pioneering American physician and medical researcher, recognized as one of the first women to earn a medical degree in the United States and a leading advocate for women in medicine.
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D.
Susannah Martin
Susannah Martin was a Massachusetts woman executed for alleged witchcraft in 1692, remembered as one of the victims of the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Maggie Hartford
Maggie Hartford is a fictional character from the American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," known for her involvement in the show's intricate family and vineyard dramas.
- 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: Marianne Wiggins Target entity description: Marianne Wiggins is an American novelist and short story writer known for her inventive, genre-blending fiction and for receiving honors such as the Whiting Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.
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A.
Elizabeth Flanagan
Elizabeth Flanagan was the wife of C. Everett Koop, the prominent U.S. Surgeon General known for his influential public health advocacy.
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B.
Mary Easty
Mary Easty was a respected Salem, Massachusetts woman who was falsely accused of witchcraft and executed during the 1692 Salem witch trials, later remembered for her dignified plea for justice.
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C.
Mary Corinna Putnam
Mary Corinna Putnam was a pioneering American physician and medical researcher, recognized as one of the first women to earn a medical degree in the United States and a leading advocate for women in medicine.
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D.
Susannah Martin
Susannah Martin was a Massachusetts woman executed for alleged witchcraft in 1692, remembered as one of the victims of the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Maggie Hartford
Maggie Hartford is a fictional character from the American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," known for her involvement in the show's intricate family and vineyard dramas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American writer
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human ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ short story collection ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| author |
Marianne Wiggins
self-linksurface differs
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Marianne Wiggins self-linksurface differs ⓘ Marianne Wiggins self-linksurface differs ⓘ Marianne Wiggins self-linksurface differs ⓘ Marianne Wiggins self-linksurface differs ⓘ Marianne Wiggins self-linksurface differs ⓘ Marianne Wiggins self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
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surface form:
National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
Whiting Writers' Award ⓘ
surface form:
Whiting Award
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| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Millersville University of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
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literary fiction ⓘ postmodern fiction ⓘ |
| hasWrittenForm |
novels
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short stories ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary American literature ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
National Book Award for Fiction
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Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ⓘ |
| notableFor |
exploration of American history and identity in fiction
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inventive genre-blending fiction ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Almost Heaven
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Babe ⓘ Eveless Eden ⓘ Evidence of Things Unseen ⓘ Herself in Love ⓘ John Dollar ⓘ Properties of Thirst ⓘ Separate Checks ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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short story writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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surface form:
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Salman Rushdie ⓘ |
| workLocation |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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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: Marianne Wiggins Description of subject: Marianne Wiggins is an American novelist and short story writer known for her inventive, genre-blending fiction and for receiving honors such as the Whiting Award and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Evidence of Things Unseen
subject surface form:
John Dollar
subject surface form:
Properties of Thirst
subject surface form:
Herself in Love
subject surface form:
Separate Checks
subject surface form:
Almost Heaven
subject surface form:
Eveless Eden
this entity surface form:
Margaret “Marny” Wiggin