Bernard Malamud
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Bernard Malamud was a prominent 20th-century American novelist and short story writer whose works, often blending realism and allegory, explore themes of Jewish identity, suffering, and moral responsibility.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bernard Malamud canonical | 6 |
| Malamud | 1 |
| Paul Malamud | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3718075 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernard Malamud Context triple: [Jewish American literature, hasNotableAuthor, Bernard Malamud]
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Philip Roth
Philip Roth was a prominent American novelist known for his incisive, often controversial explorations of Jewish-American identity, sexuality, and modern life in works such as "Portnoy’s Complaint" and the "Zuckerman" series.
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B.
Samson Raphaelson
Samson Raphaelson was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his influential collaborations with director Ernst Lubitsch on classic Hollywood comedies.
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C.
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born American novelist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his richly intellectual, character-driven explorations of modern urban life and the search for meaning.
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D.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born American writer and Nobel Prize–winning master of modern Yiddish literature, renowned for his stories blending Jewish folklore, mysticism, and everyday life.
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E.
Irving Morrow
Irving Morrow was an American architect best known for designing the Art Deco elements and iconic International Orange color scheme of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
- 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: Bernard Malamud Target entity description: Bernard Malamud was a prominent 20th-century American novelist and short story writer whose works, often blending realism and allegory, explore themes of Jewish identity, suffering, and moral responsibility.
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A.
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was a prominent American novelist known for his incisive, often controversial explorations of Jewish-American identity, sexuality, and modern life in works such as "Portnoy’s Complaint" and the "Zuckerman" series.
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B.
Samson Raphaelson
Samson Raphaelson was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his influential collaborations with director Ernst Lubitsch on classic Hollywood comedies.
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C.
Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow was a Canadian-born American novelist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his richly intellectual, character-driven explorations of modern urban life and the search for meaning.
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D.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Isaac Bashevis Singer was a Polish-born American writer and Nobel Prize–winning master of modern Yiddish literature, renowned for his stories blending Jewish folklore, mysticism, and everyday life.
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E.
Irving Morrow
Irving Morrow was an American architect best known for designing the Art Deco elements and iconic International Orange color scheme of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Bernard Malamud Description of subject: Bernard Malamud was a prominent 20th-century American novelist and short story writer whose works, often blending realism and allegory, explore themes of Jewish identity, suffering, and moral responsibility.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Malamud
this entity surface form:
Paul Malamud