Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Ta-Nehisi Coates is an American author and journalist renowned for his incisive writings on race, history, and politics, including the acclaimed book "Between the World and Me."
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ta-Nehisi Coates canonical | 22 |
| Ta-Nehisi | 2 |
| Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T165840 — 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.
Target entity: Ta-Nehisi Coates Context triple: [MacArthur Fellows, hasNotableRecipient, Ta-Nehisi Coates]
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A.
James Baldwin
James Baldwin was a prominent 20th-century American writer and essayist whose works powerfully explored race, sexuality, and identity in the United States.
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B.
Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and author best known for her acclaimed works on race and migration in the United States, including "The Warmth of Other Suns" and "Caste."
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C.
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is an American writer, professor, and cultural critic known for her influential essays and books on feminism, race, body image, and pop culture, including the bestselling memoir "Hunger" and essay collection "Bad Feminist."
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D.
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was a renowned American novelist, essayist, and professor celebrated for her powerful explorations of Black American life and identity in works such as "Beloved" and "Song of Solomon."
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E.
Howard Potter
Howard Potter was a 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist who played a key role in the cultural life of New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Ta-Nehisi Coates Target entity description: Ta-Nehisi Coates is an American author and journalist renowned for his incisive writings on race, history, and politics, including the acclaimed book "Between the World and Me."
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A.
James Baldwin
James Baldwin was a prominent 20th-century American writer and essayist whose works powerfully explored race, sexuality, and identity in the United States.
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B.
Isabel Wilkerson
Isabel Wilkerson is an American journalist and author best known for her acclaimed works on race and migration in the United States, including "The Warmth of Other Suns" and "Caste."
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C.
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is an American writer, professor, and cultural critic known for her influential essays and books on feminism, race, body image, and pop culture, including the bestselling memoir "Hunger" and essay collection "Bad Feminist."
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D.
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison was a renowned American novelist, essayist, and professor celebrated for her powerful explorations of Black American life and identity in works such as "Beloved" and "Song of Solomon."
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E.
Howard Potter
Howard Potter was a 19th-century American businessman and philanthropist who played a key role in the cultural life of New York City.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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essayist ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ public intellectual ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
MacArthur Fellowship
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National Book Award for Nonfiction ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1975-09-30 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Howard University ⓘ |
| employer | The Atlantic ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | African American ⓘ |
| familyName | Coates ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
African-American history
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politics ⓘ race relations ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
| fullName |
Ta-Nehisi Coates
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates
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| genre |
essay
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memoir ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ speculative fiction ⓘ |
| givenName |
Ta-Nehisi Coates
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Ta-Nehisi
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| hasChild | Samori Coates ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
James Baldwin
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Malcolm X ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary African-American literature ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
argument for reparations for African Americans
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critique of structural racism in the United States ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Between the World and Me
ⓘ
Black Panther (Marvel Comics series) ⓘ Captain America ⓘ
surface form:
Captain America (Marvel Comics series)
The Beautiful Struggle ⓘ The Water Dancer ⓘ We Were Eight Years in Power ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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comic book writer ⓘ journalist ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Baltimore
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surface form:
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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| positionHeld | national correspondent at The Atlantic ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
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surface form:
New York City, New York, United States
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| spouse | Kenyatta Matthews ⓘ |
| workAwarded | Between the World and Me ⓘ |
| wrote |
Between the World and Me
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Black Panther (Marvel Comics series) ⓘ
surface form:
Black Panther (2016 Marvel Comics run)
Captain America ⓘ
surface form:
Captain America (2018 Marvel Comics run)
The Beautiful Struggle ⓘ The Water Dancer ⓘ We Were Eight Years in Power ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Ta-Nehisi Coates Description of subject: Ta-Nehisi Coates is an American author and journalist renowned for his incisive writings on race, history, and politics, including the acclaimed book "Between the World and Me."
Referenced by (25)
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