Patrick DeWitt
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Patrick DeWitt is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter best known for his darkly comic, genre-bending works such as the award-winning Western novel "The Sisters Brothers."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick DeWitt canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2272866 — 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: Patrick DeWitt Context triple: [De Witt, hasNotableBearer, Patrick DeWitt]
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A.
Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his novel "The Orphan Master's Son," which explores life in North Korea.
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B.
Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his crime and mystery novels such as "Mystic River," "Shutter Island," and the Kenzie and Gennaro series.
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C.
T.C. Boyle
T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer known for his darkly comic, stylistically inventive fiction and exploration of social and environmental themes.
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D.
Eyal Waldman
Eyal Waldman is an Israeli entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of high-performance networking company Mellanox Technologies.
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E.
Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford is a film editor known for his work on major blockbuster movies, including several entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- 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: Patrick DeWitt Target entity description: Patrick DeWitt is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter best known for his darkly comic, genre-bending works such as the award-winning Western novel "The Sisters Brothers."
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A.
Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his novel "The Orphan Master's Son," which explores life in North Korea.
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B.
Dennis Lehane
Dennis Lehane is an American novelist and screenwriter best known for his crime and mystery novels such as "Mystic River," "Shutter Island," and the Kenzie and Gennaro series.
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C.
T.C. Boyle
T.C. Boyle is an American novelist and short story writer known for his darkly comic, stylistically inventive fiction and exploration of social and environmental themes.
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D.
Eyal Waldman
Eyal Waldman is an Israeli entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of high-performance networking company Mellanox Technologies.
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E.
Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford is a film editor known for his work on major blockbuster movies, including several entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian writer
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novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| adaptedInto |
The Sisters Brothers
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surface form:
The Sisters Brothers (film)
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| author |
Patrick DeWitt
self-linksurface differs
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Patrick DeWitt self-linksurface differs ⓘ Patrick DeWitt self-linksurface differs ⓘ Patrick DeWitt self-linksurface differs ⓘ Patrick DeWitt self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
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surface form:
Governor General’s Award for English-language fiction
Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize ⓘ Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Canada ⓘ |
| familyName | DeWitt ⓘ |
| genre |
Western fiction
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Western fiction ⓘ dark comedy ⓘ dark comedy ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Patrick ⓘ |
| isKnownFor |
darkly comic writing style
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genre-bending works ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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English ⓘ |
| name | Patrick DeWitt self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableWork |
mikvaot (ritual baths)
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surface form:
Ablutions
French Exit ⓘ The Librarianist ⓘ The Sisters Brothers ⓘ Undermajordomo Minor ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| workAdaptedInto |
The Sisters Brothers
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surface form:
The Sisters Brothers (film)
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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: Patrick DeWitt Description of subject: Patrick DeWitt is a Canadian novelist and screenwriter best known for his darkly comic, genre-bending works such as the award-winning Western novel "The Sisters Brothers."
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Sisters Brothers
subject surface form:
Ablutions
subject surface form:
Undermajordomo Minor
subject surface form:
French Exit
subject surface form:
The Librarianist