Gregory Maguire
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Gregory Maguire is an American novelist best known for his revisionist fairy-tale retellings, particularly the novel "Wicked," which reimagines the story of the Wicked Witch of the West.
All labels observed (1)
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| Gregory Maguire canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5161784 — 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: Gregory Maguire Context triple: [Wicked, basedOnAuthor, Gregory Maguire]
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A.
Terri Windling
Terri Windling is an American editor, author, and artist renowned for her influential work in fantasy literature and mythic arts.
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B.
Daveigh Chase
Daveigh Chase is an American actress and voice actress best known for voicing Lilo Pelekai in Disney's "Lilo & Stitch" and for her role as Samara in the horror film "The Ring."
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C.
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry is an American author best known for her award-winning young adult novels such as "The Giver" and "Number the Stars."
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D.
Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist best known as the author of *The Magicians* trilogy and as a longtime book critic for Time magazine.
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E.
Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness is an acclaimed American-born British author best known for his young adult novels such as the "Chaos Walking" trilogy and "A Monster Calls."
- 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: Gregory Maguire Target entity description: Gregory Maguire is an American novelist best known for his revisionist fairy-tale retellings, particularly the novel "Wicked," which reimagines the story of the Wicked Witch of the West.
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A.
Terri Windling
Terri Windling is an American editor, author, and artist renowned for her influential work in fantasy literature and mythic arts.
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B.
Daveigh Chase
Daveigh Chase is an American actress and voice actress best known for voicing Lilo Pelekai in Disney's "Lilo & Stitch" and for her role as Samara in the horror film "The Ring."
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C.
Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry is an American author best known for her award-winning young adult novels such as "The Giver" and "Number the Stars."
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D.
Lev Grossman
Lev Grossman is an American novelist and journalist best known as the author of *The Magicians* trilogy and as a longtime book critic for Time magazine.
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E.
Patrick Ness
Patrick Ness is an acclaimed American-born British author best known for his young adult novels such as the "Chaos Walking" trilogy and "A Monster Calls."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
children's writer
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human ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Wonderful Wizard of Oz NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1954-06-09 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Simmons College
NERFINISHED
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State University of New York at Albany NERFINISHED ⓘ Tufts University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Simmons College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Maguire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
fantasy literature
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revisionist fairy tale ⓘ |
| givenName | Gregory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation | Wicked (musical) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | three adopted children ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
L. Frank Baum
NERFINISHED
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fairy tales ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| name | Gregory Maguire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | revisionist fairy-tale retellings ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Lion Among Men
NERFINISHED
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A Wild Winter Swan NERFINISHED ⓘ After Alice NERFINISHED ⓘ Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister NERFINISHED ⓘ Cress Watercress NERFINISHED ⓘ Egg & Spoon NERFINISHED ⓘ Five Alien Elves NERFINISHED ⓘ Four Stupid Cupids NERFINISHED ⓘ Hiddensee NERFINISHED ⓘ Leaping Beauty and Other Animal Fairy Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ Lost NERFINISHED ⓘ Mirror Mirror NERFINISHED ⓘ Missing Sisters NERFINISHED ⓘ Out of Oz NERFINISHED ⓘ Seven Spiders Spinning NERFINISHED ⓘ Six Haunted Hairdos NERFINISHED ⓘ Son of a Witch NERFINISHED ⓘ The Brides of Maracoor NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dream Stealer NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dreamer’s Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ The Good Liar NERFINISHED ⓘ The Hamlet Chronicles NERFINISHED ⓘ The Next Queen of Heaven NERFINISHED ⓘ The Oracle of Maracoor NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wicked Years NERFINISHED ⓘ The Witch of Maracoor NERFINISHED ⓘ Three Rotten Eggs NERFINISHED ⓘ What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy NERFINISHED ⓘ Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
children's writer
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novelist ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Albany, New York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Andy Newman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Gregory Maguire Description of subject: Gregory Maguire is an American novelist best known for his revisionist fairy-tale retellings, particularly the novel "Wicked," which reimagines the story of the Wicked Witch of the West.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Wicked