Natalie Goldberg
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Natalie Goldberg is an American author and writing teacher best known for her influential book "Writing Down the Bones," which popularized a Zen-inspired approach to creative writing practice.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Natalie Goldberg canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1888775 — 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: Natalie Goldberg Context triple: [Goldberg, hasNotableBearer, Natalie Goldberg]
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A.
Paula Gunn Allen
Paula Gunn Allen was a Native American poet, novelist, critic, and scholar whose work powerfully advanced Indigenous feminism and Native American literary studies.
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B.
Paul Grilley
Paul Grilley is a yoga teacher best known for popularizing Yin Yoga and for his influential work on anatomy and skeletal variation in yoga practice.
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C.
Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner was an American Presbyterian minister, novelist, and theologian known for his reflective Christian writings that blend memoir, fiction, and spiritual insight.
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D.
Diane Glancy
Diane Glancy is a contemporary Native American writer and poet known for exploring Indigenous identity, history, and spirituality through experimental fiction, poetry, and drama.
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E.
B. Warren
B. Warren was a prominent physicist known for his influential contributions to the field of diffraction physics.
- 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: Natalie Goldberg Target entity description: Natalie Goldberg is an American author and writing teacher best known for her influential book "Writing Down the Bones," which popularized a Zen-inspired approach to creative writing practice.
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A.
Paula Gunn Allen
Paula Gunn Allen was a Native American poet, novelist, critic, and scholar whose work powerfully advanced Indigenous feminism and Native American literary studies.
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B.
Paul Grilley
Paul Grilley is a yoga teacher best known for popularizing Yin Yoga and for his influential work on anatomy and skeletal variation in yoga practice.
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C.
Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner was an American Presbyterian minister, novelist, and theologian known for his reflective Christian writings that blend memoir, fiction, and spiritual insight.
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D.
Diane Glancy
Diane Glancy is a contemporary Native American writer and poet known for exploring Indigenous identity, history, and spirituality through experimental fiction, poetry, and drama.
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E.
B. Warren
B. Warren was a prominent physicist known for his influential contributions to the field of diffraction physics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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book ⓘ book ⓘ book ⓘ book ⓘ book ⓘ book ⓘ essayist ⓘ memoir ⓘ memoir ⓘ memoirist ⓘ person ⓘ writing teacher ⓘ |
| author |
Natalie Goldberg
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| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| field |
Chan Buddhism
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surface form:
Zen Buddhism
creative writing ⓘ |
| genre | writing guide ⓘ |
| hasTaughtAt |
writing retreats internationally
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writing workshops in the United States ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
Living Color: Painting, Writing, and the Bones of Seeing
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Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America ⓘ Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir ⓘ The Great Failure: A Bartender, A Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth ⓘ The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language ⓘ Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft ⓘ Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life ⓘ |
| influenced |
contemporary creative writing pedagogy
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writers interested in Zen and mindfulness ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Chan Buddhism
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surface form:
Zen Buddhism
Zen meditation ⓘ |
| knownFor |
integrating meditation with writing practice
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popularizing a Zen approach to writing ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork | Writing Down the Bones ⓘ |
| occupation |
lecturer
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teacher ⓘ writer ⓘ writing workshop leader ⓘ |
| religion |
Chan Buddhism
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surface form:
Zen Buddhism
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| residence | New Mexico ⓘ |
| subject |
Zen practice
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creative writing ⓘ |
| teaches | writing practice ⓘ |
| teachingApproach | Zen-inspired writing practice ⓘ |
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: Natalie Goldberg Description of subject: Natalie Goldberg is an American author and writing teacher best known for her influential book "Writing Down the Bones," which popularized a Zen-inspired approach to creative writing practice.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Writing Down the Bones
subject surface form:
Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life
subject surface form:
Thunder and Lightning: Cracking Open the Writer’s Craft
subject surface form:
Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America
subject surface form:
The Great Failure: A Bartender, A Monk, and My Unlikely Path to Truth
subject surface form:
Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
subject surface form:
The True Secret of Writing: Connecting Life with Language
subject surface form:
Living Color: Painting, Writing, and the Bones of Seeing