Dennis Cooper
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Dennis Cooper is an American novelist, poet, and critic known for his transgressive, minimalist fiction exploring youth, sexuality, and violence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Dennis Cooper canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3659276 — 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: Dennis Cooper Context triple: [Jabberwocky, featuresCharacter, Dennis Cooper]
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A.
Dan Jewett
Dan Jewett is an American science teacher known for his brief marriage to billionaire philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott.
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B.
Samuel Dracutt
Samuel Dracutt was a historical figure after whom the town of Dracut, Massachusetts, was named, likely an early landowner or prominent local settler.
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C.
Ed Oates
Ed Oates is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of Oracle Corporation, a pioneering company in relational database technology.
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D.
Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford is a film editor known for his work on major blockbuster movies, including several entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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E.
BAM Fisher
BAM Fisher is an intimate, flexible performance and community space within the Brooklyn Academy of Music complex that hosts experimental theater, dance, music, and arts events.
- 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: Dennis Cooper Target entity description: Dennis Cooper is an American novelist, poet, and critic known for his transgressive, minimalist fiction exploring youth, sexuality, and violence.
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A.
Dan Jewett
Dan Jewett is an American science teacher known for his brief marriage to billionaire philanthropist and novelist MacKenzie Scott.
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B.
Samuel Dracutt
Samuel Dracutt was a historical figure after whom the town of Dracut, Massachusetts, was named, likely an early landowner or prominent local settler.
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C.
Ed Oates
Ed Oates is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the co-founders of Oracle Corporation, a pioneering company in relational database technology.
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D.
Jeffrey Ford
Jeffrey Ford is a film editor known for his work on major blockbuster movies, including several entries in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
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E.
BAM Fisher
BAM Fisher is an intimate, flexible performance and community space within the Brooklyn Academy of Music complex that hosts experimental theater, dance, music, and arts events.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
blogger
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human ⓘ literary critic ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ poet ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Lambda Literary Award ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1953-01-10 ⓘ |
| familyName | Cooper ⓘ |
| genre |
LGBT literature
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experimental fiction ⓘ novel ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| givenName | Dennis ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | http://denniscooperblog.com/ ⓘ |
| influenced | contemporary queer writers ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Georges Bataille
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Jean Genet ⓘ William S. Burroughs ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
postmodern literature
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transgressive fiction ⓘ |
| name | Dennis Cooper self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor | exploration of taboo subjects ⓘ |
| notableSubject |
sexuality
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violence ⓘ youth ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Closer
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Frisk ⓘ Guide ⓘ Period ⓘ The Sluts ⓘ Try ⓘ Ugly Man ⓘ Zac’s Haunted House ⓘ |
| occupation |
critic
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editor ⓘ novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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surface form:
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| residence |
Paris
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surface form:
Paris, France
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| series | George Miles Cycle ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
minimalist
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transgressive ⓘ |
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: Dennis Cooper Description of subject: Dennis Cooper is an American novelist, poet, and critic known for his transgressive, minimalist fiction exploring youth, sexuality, and violence.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.