Jessamyn West
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Jessamyn West was an American author best known for her stories and novels about Quaker life in Indiana, including the work that inspired the film "Friendly Persuasion."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jessamyn West canonical | 5 |
| novelist Jessamyn West | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3022994 — 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: Jessamyn West Context triple: [Friendly Persuasion, basedOnAuthor, Jessamyn West]
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A.
Jessie Willcox Smith
Jessie Willcox Smith was a prominent American illustrator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for her tender, richly colored depictions of children in magazines and books.
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B.
Francine Rivers
Francine Rivers is a bestselling American author known for her inspirational Christian fiction novels, particularly "Redeeming Love."
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C.
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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D.
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.
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E.
Lucinda Riley
Lucinda Riley was a bestselling Irish author best known for her multi-volume historical fiction series "The Seven Sisters," which achieved international acclaim.
- 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: Jessamyn West Target entity description: Jessamyn West was an American author best known for her stories and novels about Quaker life in Indiana, including the work that inspired the film "Friendly Persuasion."
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A.
Jessie Willcox Smith
Jessie Willcox Smith was a prominent American illustrator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for her tender, richly colored depictions of children in magazines and books.
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B.
Francine Rivers
Francine Rivers is a bestselling American author known for her inspirational Christian fiction novels, particularly "Redeeming Love."
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C.
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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D.
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.
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E.
Lucinda Riley
Lucinda Riley was a bestselling Irish author best known for her multi-volume historical fiction series "The Seven Sisters," which achieved international acclaim.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Jessamyn West Description of subject: Jessamyn West was an American author best known for her stories and novels about Quaker life in Indiana, including the work that inspired the film "Friendly Persuasion."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Friendly Persuasion
this entity surface form:
novelist Jessamyn West