Miles Corwin
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Miles Corwin is an American journalist and author best known for his nonfiction books and crime novels drawing on his experience covering the Los Angeles Police Department and inner-city life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Miles Corwin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5209099 — 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: Miles Corwin Context triple: [Corwin, hasNotableBearer, Miles Corwin]
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A.
Gary Harkness
Gary Harkness is the introspective college football player and narrator of Don DeLillo’s novel "End Zone," through whom themes of war, language, and existential anxiety are explored.
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B.
Daniel Grayson
Daniel Grayson is a central character in the TV drama "Revenge," known as the wealthy and conflicted heir of the powerful Grayson family.
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C.
Jerry Cornelius
Jerry Cornelius is a recurring, genre-blending antihero created by Michael Moorcock, known as a stylish, anarchic, and ambiguously moral adventurer in a surreal, dystopian near-future.
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D.
Julian Mandrake
Julian Mandrake is a rock guitarist best known for his work with the alternative rock band Blue October and other Austin-based music projects.
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E.
Theodate Pope Riddle
Theodate Pope Riddle was a pioneering early 20th-century American architect and one of the first licensed female architects in the United States.
- 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: Miles Corwin Target entity description: Miles Corwin is an American journalist and author best known for his nonfiction books and crime novels drawing on his experience covering the Los Angeles Police Department and inner-city life.
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A.
Gary Harkness
Gary Harkness is the introspective college football player and narrator of Don DeLillo’s novel "End Zone," through whom themes of war, language, and existential anxiety are explored.
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B.
Daniel Grayson
Daniel Grayson is a central character in the TV drama "Revenge," known as the wealthy and conflicted heir of the powerful Grayson family.
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C.
Jerry Cornelius
Jerry Cornelius is a recurring, genre-blending antihero created by Michael Moorcock, known as a stylish, anarchic, and ambiguously moral adventurer in a surreal, dystopian near-future.
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D.
Julian Mandrake
Julian Mandrake is a rock guitarist best known for his work with the alternative rock band Blue October and other Austin-based music projects.
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E.
Theodate Pope Riddle
Theodate Pope Riddle was a pioneering early 20th-century American architect and one of the first licensed female architects in the United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
journalist
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nonfiction writer ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Los Angeles Police Department
NERFINISHED
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inner-city life ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of California, Santa Barbara
NERFINISHED
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University of Missouri School of Journalism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Los Angeles Times
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of California, Irvine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Los Angeles Police Department
NERFINISHED
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crime reporting ⓘ inner-city life ⓘ journalism ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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nonfiction ⓘ true crime ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
books about inner-city high school students
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nonfiction books about homicide detectives ⓘ |
| notableWork |
And Still We Rise
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Homicide Special NERFINISHED ⓘ Kind of Blue NERFINISHED ⓘ L.A. Nocturne NERFINISHED ⓘ Midnight Alley NERFINISHED ⓘ The Killing Season NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| positionHeld | professor of English ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
Los Angeles
NERFINISHED
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homicide investigations ⓘ police work ⓘ urban education ⓘ |
| writingStyle | narrative nonfiction ⓘ |
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: Miles Corwin Description of subject: Miles Corwin is an American journalist and author best known for his nonfiction books and crime novels drawing on his experience covering the Los Angeles Police Department and inner-city life.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.