Susan Orlean
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Susan Orlean is an American journalist and author best known for her narrative nonfiction works such as "The Orchid Thief," which inspired the film "Adaptation."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Susan Orlean canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2009075 — 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: Susan Orlean Context triple: [Adaptation, basedOnWorkAuthor, Susan Orlean]
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A.
Sarah Neufeld
Sarah Neufeld is a Canadian violinist and composer best known for her work with the indie rock band Arcade Fire and her experimental solo and collaborative projects.
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B.
Nan A. Talese
Nan A. Talese is an American literary editor and publisher renowned for her eponymous imprint at Doubleday, which has published numerous acclaimed works of contemporary fiction and nonfiction.
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C.
Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore is an American historian, essayist, and Harvard professor best known for her work in The New Yorker and her influential books on U.S. history, politics, and ideas.
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D.
Diane Johnson
Diane Johnson is an American novelist and essayist best known for co-writing the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s "The Shining."
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E.
Julia Phillips
Julia Phillips was a pioneering American film producer and writer, best known for helping bring landmark 1970s films like "Taxi Driver" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" to the screen and for being the first female producer to win a Best Picture Oscar.
- 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: Susan Orlean Target entity description: Susan Orlean is an American journalist and author best known for her narrative nonfiction works such as "The Orchid Thief," which inspired the film "Adaptation."
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A.
Sarah Neufeld
Sarah Neufeld is a Canadian violinist and composer best known for her work with the indie rock band Arcade Fire and her experimental solo and collaborative projects.
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B.
Nan A. Talese
Nan A. Talese is an American literary editor and publisher renowned for her eponymous imprint at Doubleday, which has published numerous acclaimed works of contemporary fiction and nonfiction.
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C.
Jill Lepore
Jill Lepore is an American historian, essayist, and Harvard professor best known for her work in The New Yorker and her influential books on U.S. history, politics, and ideas.
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D.
Diane Johnson
Diane Johnson is an American novelist and essayist best known for co-writing the screenplay for Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s "The Shining."
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E.
Julia Phillips
Julia Phillips was a pioneering American film producer and writer, best known for helping bring landmark 1970s films like "Taxi Driver" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" to the screen and for being the first female producer to win a Best Picture Oscar.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Susan Orlean Description of subject: Susan Orlean is an American journalist and author best known for her narrative nonfiction works such as "The Orchid Thief," which inspired the film "Adaptation."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Adaptation
subject surface form:
Adaptation
subject surface form:
The Orchid Thief
subject surface form:
Adaptation