Arlo Bates

E668932

editor educator human novelist

Arlo Bates was an American author, editor, and educator known for his novels, literary criticism, and long tenure as a professor of English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Arlo	1
Arlo Bates canonical	1

Statements (39)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	editor ⓘ educator ⓘ human ⓘ novelist ⓘ
child	Oric Bates NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1850-12-16 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1918-08-25 ⓘ
educatedAt	Bowdoin College NERFINISHED ⓘ
employer	Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ
fieldOfWork	education ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ literature ⓘ
genre	essay ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ novel ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
memberOf	American Academy of Arts and Sciences ⓘ
notableRole	editor of the Boston Sunday Courier ⓘ
notableWork	A Lad’s Love NERFINISHED ⓘ Talks on Writing English NERFINISHED ⓘ Talks on the Study of Literature NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pagans NERFINISHED ⓘ The Philistines NERFINISHED ⓘ The Puritans NERFINISHED ⓘ
occupation	author ⓘ editor ⓘ educator ⓘ literary critic ⓘ novelist ⓘ
periodActive	early 20th century ⓘ late 19th century ⓘ
placeOfBirth	East Machias, Maine, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ
placeOfDeath	Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ
positionHeld	professor of English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ⓘ
sexOrGender	male ⓘ
spouse	Harriet L. Vose Bates NERFINISHED ⓘ
workLocation	Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America NERFINISHED ⓘ

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: Arlo Bates
Description of subject: Arlo Bates was an American author, editor, and educator known for his novels, literary criticism, and long tenure as a professor of English at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bates → hasNotableBearer → Arlo Bates ⓘ

Arlo Guthrie → givenName → Arlo Bates ⓘ

this entity surface form: Arlo