José Lezama Lima
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José Lezama Lima was a Cuban poet, novelist, and essayist renowned for his dense, baroque style and his influential novel "Paradiso."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| José Lezama Lima canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6426127 — 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: José Lezama Lima Context triple: [Gregory Rabassa, translatedAuthor, José Lezama Lima]
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A.
Heberto Castillo
Heberto Castillo was a prominent Mexican civil engineer, leftist political activist, and intellectual who played a key role in the country’s pro-democracy movements of the late 20th century.
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B.
García Morte
García Morte is the family name of Spanish actor Álvaro Morte, internationally known for his role as "The Professor" in the series Money Heist.
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C.
Nicanor Parra
Nicanor Parra was a Chilean poet, mathematician, and physicist best known for pioneering "antipoetry," a radically colloquial and ironic style that transformed 20th-century Latin American literature.
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D.
Roberto Fernández Retamar
Roberto Fernández Retamar was a prominent Cuban poet, essayist, and literary critic known for his influential work on Latin American identity and postcolonial thought.
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E.
Alejo Carpentier
Alejo Carpentier was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist, renowned as a key figure in Latin American literature and an early pioneer of magical realism.
- 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: José Lezama Lima Target entity description: José Lezama Lima was a Cuban poet, novelist, and essayist renowned for his dense, baroque style and his influential novel "Paradiso."
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A.
Heberto Castillo
Heberto Castillo was a prominent Mexican civil engineer, leftist political activist, and intellectual who played a key role in the country’s pro-democracy movements of the late 20th century.
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B.
García Morte
García Morte is the family name of Spanish actor Álvaro Morte, internationally known for his role as "The Professor" in the series Money Heist.
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C.
Nicanor Parra
Nicanor Parra was a Chilean poet, mathematician, and physicist best known for pioneering "antipoetry," a radically colloquial and ironic style that transformed 20th-century Latin American literature.
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D.
Roberto Fernández Retamar
Roberto Fernández Retamar was a prominent Cuban poet, essayist, and literary critic known for his influential work on Latin American identity and postcolonial thought.
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E.
Alejo Carpentier
Alejo Carpentier was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist, renowned as a key figure in Latin American literature and an early pioneer of magical realism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
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human ⓘ novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1910-12-19 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Cuba
NERFINISHED
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Havana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Cuba ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1976-08-09 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Cuba
NERFINISHED
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Havana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Havana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Lezama Lima NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| founded | Orígenes (literary journal) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
essay
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novel ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| givenName | José NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPartInBibliography |
Aventuras sigilosas
NERFINISHED
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Muerte de Narciso NERFINISHED ⓘ Tratados en La Habana ⓘ |
| influenced |
Cuban literature
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Latin American literature ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
José Martí
NERFINISHED
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Luis de Góngora NERFINISHED ⓘ Stéphane Mallarmé NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfExpression | Spanish ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
baroque
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dense ⓘ |
| movement |
Baroque literature
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Neobaroque NERFINISHED ⓘ Orígenes group NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | José Lezama Lima NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Cuban ⓘ |
| notableIdea | American baroque ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dador
NERFINISHED
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Enemigo rumor NERFINISHED ⓘ La expresión americana NERFINISHED ⓘ Oppiano Licario NERFINISHED ⓘ Paradiso NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
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lawyer ⓘ novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| workLocation | Havana NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: José Lezama Lima Description of subject: José Lezama Lima was a Cuban poet, novelist, and essayist renowned for his dense, baroque style and his influential novel "Paradiso."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.