Michael Dorris
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Michael Dorris was an American author and anthropologist known for his novels and memoirs exploring Native American identity and family, as well as for his collaborative literary work and personal partnership with writer Louise Erdrich.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Dorris canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4955509 — 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: Michael Dorris Context triple: [Louise Erdrich, spouse, Michael Dorris]
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A.
David Walsh
David Walsh is an Australian professional gambler, art collector, and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Hobart’s provocative Museum of Old and New Art (MONA).
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B.
David M. Walsh
David M. Walsh is an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous films, particularly comedies, during the 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
Allan D. Pierce
Allan D. Pierce is an American acoustical physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to theoretical acoustics and authorship of the influential textbook "Acoustics: An Introduction to Its Physical Principles and Applications."
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D.
John Shelby
John Shelby is a key member of the Shelby crime family in the British television series "Peaky Blinders," known for his fierce loyalty, volatility, and role in the gang's violent operations.
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E.
Melvin Fitting
Melvin Fitting is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential work in automated theorem proving, modal logic, and the foundations of logic in computer science.
- 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: Michael Dorris Target entity description: Michael Dorris was an American author and anthropologist known for his novels and memoirs exploring Native American identity and family, as well as for his collaborative literary work and personal partnership with writer Louise Erdrich.
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A.
David Walsh
David Walsh is an Australian professional gambler, art collector, and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Hobart’s provocative Museum of Old and New Art (MONA).
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B.
David M. Walsh
David M. Walsh is an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous films, particularly comedies, during the 1970s and 1980s.
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C.
Allan D. Pierce
Allan D. Pierce is an American acoustical physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to theoretical acoustics and authorship of the influential textbook "Acoustics: An Introduction to Its Physical Principles and Applications."
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D.
John Shelby
John Shelby is a key member of the Shelby crime family in the British television series "Peaky Blinders," known for his fierce loyalty, volatility, and role in the gang's violent operations.
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E.
Melvin Fitting
Melvin Fitting is a logician and computer scientist known for his influential work in automated theorem proving, modal logic, and the foundations of logic in computer science.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
anthropologist
ⓘ
author ⓘ human ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| awardReceived | National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | The Broken Cord NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | The Crown of Columbus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1945-01-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1997-04-10 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Georgetown University
ⓘ
Yale University ⓘ |
| employer | Dartmouth College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Native American ⓘ |
| familyName | Dorris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Native American studies
ⓘ
anthropology ⓘ literature ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
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memoir ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ novel ⓘ |
| givenName | Michael ⓘ |
| hasChild | adopted children ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | Native American Renaissance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Michael Dorris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableIdea | raising awareness of fetal alcohol syndrome ⓘ |
| notableSubject |
Native American identity
ⓘ
family and parenthood ⓘ fetal alcohol syndrome NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cloud Chamber NERFINISHED ⓘ The Broken Cord NERFINISHED ⓘ The Crown of Columbus NERFINISHED ⓘ Working Men NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
anthropologist
ⓘ
professor ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| partnerInWriting | Louise Erdrich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Louisville, Kentucky, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Concord, New Hampshire, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | founding chair of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Louise Erdrich NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Michael Dorris Description of subject: Michael Dorris was an American author and anthropologist known for his novels and memoirs exploring Native American identity and family, as well as for his collaborative literary work and personal partnership with writer Louise Erdrich.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.