Larry McMurtry
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Larry McMurtry was an acclaimed American novelist and screenwriter best known for works like "Lonesome Dove" and for adapting literary works into award-winning films.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Larry McMurtry canonical | 12 |
| Larry Jeff McMurtry | 1 |
| McMurtry | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2850475 — 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: Larry McMurtry Context triple: [Brokeback Mountain, screenwriter, Larry McMurtry]
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Winston Groom
Winston Groom was an American novelist and non-fiction writer best known as the author of the novel "Forrest Gump," which inspired the acclaimed film adaptation.
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B.
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy was an American novelist renowned for his bleak, lyrical prose and violent, existential explorations of the American South and West in works such as "Blood Meridian" and "The Road."
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C.
Paulette Jiles
Paulette Jiles is an American poet and novelist best known for her historical fiction, including the novel "News of the World."
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D.
Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist best known for works such as "A Thousand Acres," noted for her incisive explorations of family, morality, and Midwestern life.
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E.
Wade Kinsella
Wade Kinsella is a charming, roguish bartender and musician from the TV series "Hart of Dixie," known for his complicated love life and central role in the small-town drama of Bluebell, Alabama.
- 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: Larry McMurtry Target entity description: Larry McMurtry was an acclaimed American novelist and screenwriter best known for works like "Lonesome Dove" and for adapting literary works into award-winning films.
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A.
Winston Groom
Winston Groom was an American novelist and non-fiction writer best known as the author of the novel "Forrest Gump," which inspired the acclaimed film adaptation.
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B.
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy was an American novelist renowned for his bleak, lyrical prose and violent, existential explorations of the American South and West in works such as "Blood Meridian" and "The Road."
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C.
Paulette Jiles
Paulette Jiles is an American poet and novelist best known for her historical fiction, including the novel "News of the World."
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D.
Jane Smiley
Jane Smiley is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American novelist best known for works such as "A Thousand Acres," noted for her incisive explorations of family, morality, and Midwestern life.
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E.
Wade Kinsella
Wade Kinsella is a charming, roguish bartender and musician from the TV series "Hart of Dixie," known for his complicated love life and central role in the small-town drama of Bluebell, Alabama.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
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: Larry McMurtry Description of subject: Larry McMurtry was an acclaimed American novelist and screenwriter best known for works like "Lonesome Dove" and for adapting literary works into award-winning films.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Last Picture Show (novel)
this entity surface form:
Larry Jeff McMurtry
this entity surface form:
McMurtry