Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian and author renowned for her influential biographies of U.S. presidents such as Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson.
All labels observed (2)
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| Doris Kearns Goodwin canonical | 13 |
| Doris Helen Kearns | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T445690 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Doris Kearns Goodwin Context triple: [Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, notableWinner, Doris Kearns Goodwin]
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Robert A. Caro
Robert A. Caro is an American journalist and biographer renowned for his exhaustive, Pulitzer Prize–winning studies of political power, particularly in his multi-volume works on Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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Kai Bird
Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
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Kathleen Middlekauff
Kathleen Middlekauff is an American academic and former spouse of investigative journalist and author Bob Woodward.
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Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American biographer and essayist known for acclaimed works on figures such as Cleopatra, Vera Nabokov, and the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Lawrence Wright
Lawrence Wright is an American journalist, author, and screenwriter best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative nonfiction works on topics such as terrorism and Scientology.
- 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: Doris Kearns Goodwin Target entity description: Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian and author renowned for her influential biographies of U.S. presidents such as Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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A.
Robert A. Caro
Robert A. Caro is an American journalist and biographer renowned for his exhaustive, Pulitzer Prize–winning studies of political power, particularly in his multi-volume works on Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson.
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B.
Kai Bird
Kai Bird is an American historian, biographer, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author best known for co-writing the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus."
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C.
Kathleen Middlekauff
Kathleen Middlekauff is an American academic and former spouse of investigative journalist and author Bob Woodward.
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D.
Stacy Schiff
Stacy Schiff is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American biographer and essayist known for acclaimed works on figures such as Cleopatra, Vera Nabokov, and the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Lawrence Wright
Lawrence Wright is an American journalist, author, and screenwriter best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative nonfiction works on topics such as terrorism and Scientology.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: Doris Kearns Goodwin Description of subject: Doris Kearns Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian and author renowned for her influential biographies of U.S. presidents such as Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Lyndon B. Johnson.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Doris Helen Kearns
No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
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The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
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