Vendela Vida
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Vendela Vida is an American novelist, editor, and screenwriter known for her literary fiction and for co-founding the publishing house McSweeney’s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vendela Vida canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5070861 — 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: Vendela Vida Context triple: [Dave Eggers, spouse, Vendela Vida]
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A.
Sara Quin
Sara Quin is a Canadian musician best known as one half of the indie pop duo Tegan and Sara.
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B.
Lydia West
Lydia West is a British actress best known for her acclaimed role in the television drama series "It's a Sin."
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C.
Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson is an American writer and critic known for her genre-blending works that combine memoir, theory, and cultural criticism, such as "The Argonauts."
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D.
Emily M. Danforth
Emily M. Danforth is an American novelist best known for her acclaimed coming-of-age LGBTQ+ novel "The Miseducation of Cameron Post."
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E.
Cathy Park Hong
Cathy Park Hong is a Korean American poet, essayist, and professor known for her innovative poetry collections and the acclaimed essay collection "Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning."
- 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: Vendela Vida Target entity description: Vendela Vida is an American novelist, editor, and screenwriter known for her literary fiction and for co-founding the publishing house McSweeney’s.
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A.
Sara Quin
Sara Quin is a Canadian musician best known as one half of the indie pop duo Tegan and Sara.
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B.
Lydia West
Lydia West is a British actress best known for her acclaimed role in the television drama series "It's a Sin."
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C.
Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson is an American writer and critic known for her genre-blending works that combine memoir, theory, and cultural criticism, such as "The Argonauts."
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D.
Emily M. Danforth
Emily M. Danforth is an American novelist best known for her acclaimed coming-of-age LGBTQ+ novel "The Miseducation of Cameron Post."
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E.
Cathy Park Hong
Cathy Park Hong is a Korean American poet, essayist, and professor known for her innovative poetry collections and the acclaimed essay collection "Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
editor
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essayist ⓘ human ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn | 21st-century American literature ⓘ |
| coFounderOf |
McSweeney’s
NERFINISHED
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The Believer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Dave Eggers
NERFINISHED
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George Saunders NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Columbia University School of the Arts
NERFINISHED
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Middlebury College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Vida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
editing
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fiction writing ⓘ screenwriting ⓘ |
| genre | literary fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Vendela NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole | co-editor of The Believer ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Vendela Vida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-founding McSweeney’s
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co-founding The Believer ⓘ contemporary literary fiction ⓘ |
| notableWork |
And Now You Can Go
NERFINISHED
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Girls on the Verge NERFINISHED ⓘ Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name NERFINISHED ⓘ The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lovers NERFINISHED ⓘ We Run the Tides NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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journalist ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Francisco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | San Francisco Bay Area NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriterOf | Away We Go NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse | Dave Eggers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
And Now You Can Go
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Girls on the Verge: Debutante Dips, Drive-bys, and Other Initiations NERFINISHED ⓘ Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name NERFINISHED ⓘ The Diver’s Clothes Lie Empty NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lovers NERFINISHED ⓘ We Run the Tides 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: Vendela Vida Description of subject: Vendela Vida is an American novelist, editor, and screenwriter known for her literary fiction and for co-founding the publishing house McSweeney’s.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.