Jonathan Harr

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Jonathan Harr is an American author and journalist best known for his nonfiction legal thriller "A Civil Action," which chronicles a landmark environmental lawsuit.

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Label Occurrences
Jonathan Harr canonical 2

Statements (29)

Predicate Object
instanceOf journalist
person
awardReceived National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction NERFINISHED
basedIn Northampton, Massachusetts NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
educatedAt College of William & Mary NERFINISHED
Marshall University NERFINISHED
employer Smith College NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork investigative journalism
narrative nonfiction
genre legal thriller
nonfiction
hasWrittenAbout Italian Baroque painting
art history
environmental law
toxic tort litigation
influencedBy tradition of literary journalism
languageOfWorkOrName English
notableFor chronicling a landmark environmental lawsuit in Woburn, Massachusetts in A Civil Action
notableWork A Civil Action NERFINISHED
The Lost Painting NERFINISHED
occupation journalist
nonfiction writer
writer
placeOfResidence Massachusetts NERFINISHED
positionHeld writing instructor at Smith College
workFocusesOn complex legal cases
detailed real-world investigations
writingStyle narrative-driven investigative reporting

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: Jonathan Harr
Description of subject: Jonathan Harr is an American author and journalist best known for his nonfiction legal thriller "A Civil Action," which chronicles a landmark environmental lawsuit.

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