Jane Yolen
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Jane Yolen is a prolific American author best known for her fantasy, science fiction, and children's literature, including works like "The Devil's Arithmetic" and "Owl Moon."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jane Yolen canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2674406 — 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: Jane Yolen Context triple: [Solstice Award, hasRecipient, Jane Yolen]
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A.
Anne Frances Robbins
Anne Frances Robbins, better known as Nancy Reagan, was an American actress and the First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989 as the wife of President Ronald Reagan.
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B.
Susan Galloway
Susan Galloway is a New York resident and civil liberties advocate who challenged the Town of Greece’s legislative prayer practice in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Town of Greece v. Galloway.
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C.
Freada Kapor Klein
Freada Kapor Klein is an American entrepreneur, activist, and philanthropist known for her work advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tech industry and co-founding the Kapor Center.
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D.
Edith Sachar
Edith Sachar was an American sculptor and jewelry designer active in the mid-20th century, known for her modernist metalwork and association with the New York art scene.
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E.
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.
- 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: Jane Yolen Target entity description: Jane Yolen is a prolific American author best known for her fantasy, science fiction, and children's literature, including works like "The Devil's Arithmetic" and "Owl Moon."
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A.
Anne Frances Robbins
Anne Frances Robbins, better known as Nancy Reagan, was an American actress and the First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989 as the wife of President Ronald Reagan.
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B.
Susan Galloway
Susan Galloway is a New York resident and civil liberties advocate who challenged the Town of Greece’s legislative prayer practice in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Town of Greece v. Galloway.
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C.
Freada Kapor Klein
Freada Kapor Klein is an American entrepreneur, activist, and philanthropist known for her work advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tech industry and co-founding the Kapor Center.
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D.
Edith Sachar
Edith Sachar was an American sculptor and jewelry designer active in the mid-20th century, known for her modernist metalwork and association with the New York art scene.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Jane Yolen Description of subject: Jane Yolen is a prolific American author best known for her fantasy, science fiction, and children's literature, including works like "The Devil's Arithmetic" and "Owl Moon."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Greenfield, Massachusetts