Ruth Ozeki
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Ruth Ozeki is an American-Canadian novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest known for her genre-blending, contemplative works such as "A Tale for the Time Being" and "The Book of Form and Emptiness."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ruth Ozeki canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4861633 — 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: Ruth Ozeki Context triple: [Canongate Books, publishesAuthor, Ruth Ozeki]
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A.
Yoko Tawada
Yoko Tawada is a Japanese-German writer known for her innovative, multilingual literature that explores themes of language, identity, and cultural displacement.
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B.
Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss is an acclaimed contemporary American novelist known for her introspective, formally inventive works such as "The History of Love" and "Great House," which often explore memory, identity, and Jewish history.
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C.
Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson is an acclaimed American novelist and essayist known for her deeply reflective, spiritually infused works such as "Housekeeping" and the Gilead series.
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D.
Hikari Ōe
Hikari Ōe is a Japanese composer known for his classical music works and as the son of Nobel Prize–winning author Kenzaburō Ōe.
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E.
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers is an American author, editor, and publisher known for works like "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" and for founding the independent publishing house McSweeney’s and the literacy nonprofit 826 Valencia.
- 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: Ruth Ozeki Target entity description: Ruth Ozeki is an American-Canadian novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest known for her genre-blending, contemplative works such as "A Tale for the Time Being" and "The Book of Form and Emptiness."
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A.
Yoko Tawada
Yoko Tawada is a Japanese-German writer known for her innovative, multilingual literature that explores themes of language, identity, and cultural displacement.
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B.
Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss is an acclaimed contemporary American novelist known for her introspective, formally inventive works such as "The History of Love" and "Great House," which often explore memory, identity, and Jewish history.
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C.
Marilynne Robinson
Marilynne Robinson is an acclaimed American novelist and essayist known for her deeply reflective, spiritually infused works such as "Housekeeping" and the Gilead series.
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D.
Hikari Ōe
Hikari Ōe is a Japanese composer known for his classical music works and as the son of Nobel Prize–winning author Kenzaburō Ōe.
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E.
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers is an American author, editor, and publisher known for works like "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" and for founding the independent publishing house McSweeney’s and the literacy nonprofit 826 Valencia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Zen Buddhist priest
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filmmaker ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Canada-Japan Literary Award
NERFINISHED
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LA Times Book Prize for Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ Women’s Prize for Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn |
Canada
NERFINISHED
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1956-03-12 ⓘ |
| directed | Halving the Bones NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Smith College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Smith College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Japanese American ⓘ |
| familyName | Ozeki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Buddhist studies
ⓘ
film ⓘ literature ⓘ |
| genre |
contemporary fiction
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literary fiction ⓘ speculative fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Ruth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasResidence | Northampton, Massachusetts, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
environmental issues
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identity ⓘ interconnection ⓘ media and culture ⓘ time ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary Buddhism ⓘ |
| name | Ruth Ozeki NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
Booker Prize
NERFINISHED
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National Book Critics Circle Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Tale for the Time Being
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
All Over Creation NERFINISHED ⓘ My Year of Meats NERFINISHED ⓘ The Book of Form and Emptiness NERFINISHED ⓘ The Face: A Time Code NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
Zen Buddhist priest
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filmmaker ⓘ novelist ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New Haven, Connecticut, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Grace Jarcho Ross 1933 Professor of Humanities NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Zen Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Oliver Kellhammer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
contemplative
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genre-blending ⓘ |
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: Ruth Ozeki Description of subject: Ruth Ozeki is an American-Canadian novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest known for her genre-blending, contemplative works such as "A Tale for the Time Being" and "The Book of Form and Emptiness."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.