Joseph Heller
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Joseph Heller was an American novelist and satirist best known for his darkly comic World War II novel "Catch-22."
All labels observed (1)
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| Joseph Heller canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7604960 — 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: Joseph Heller Context triple: [Abraham Lincoln High School, alumni, Joseph Heller]
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A.
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was a prominent American novelist known for his incisive, often controversial explorations of Jewish-American identity, sexuality, and modern life in works such as "Portnoy’s Complaint" and the "Zuckerman" series.
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B.
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut was an American novelist and satirist known for his darkly humorous, genre-blending works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle."
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C.
Herman Blume
Herman Blume is a disillusioned industrialist who befriends an eccentric teenager and becomes his rival in Wes Anderson’s film "Rushmore."
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D.
William Gaddis
William Gaddis was an American postmodern novelist known for his dense, allusive, and formally experimental works such as "The Recognitions" and "JR."
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E.
Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud was a prominent 20th-century American novelist and short story writer whose works, often blending realism and allegory, explore themes of Jewish identity, suffering, and moral responsibility.
- 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: Joseph Heller Target entity description: Joseph Heller was an American novelist and satirist best known for his darkly comic World War II novel "Catch-22."
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A.
Philip Roth
Philip Roth was a prominent American novelist known for his incisive, often controversial explorations of Jewish-American identity, sexuality, and modern life in works such as "Portnoy’s Complaint" and the "Zuckerman" series.
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B.
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut was an American novelist and satirist known for his darkly humorous, genre-blending works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle."
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C.
Herman Blume
Herman Blume is a disillusioned industrialist who befriends an eccentric teenager and becomes his rival in Wes Anderson’s film "Rushmore."
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D.
William Gaddis
William Gaddis was an American postmodern novelist known for his dense, allusive, and formally experimental works such as "The Recognitions" and "JR."
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E.
Bernard Malamud
Bernard Malamud was a prominent 20th-century American novelist and short story writer whose works, often blending realism and allegory, explore themes of Jewish identity, suffering, and moral responsibility.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ satirist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| author |
Joseph Heller
NERFINISHED
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Joseph Heller NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Heller NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Heller NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Heller NERFINISHED ⓘ Joseph Heller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1923-05-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1999-12-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Abraham Lincoln High School
NERFINISHED
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Columbia University ⓘ New York University ⓘ University of Southern California ⓘ |
| employer |
City College of New York
NERFINISHED
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Pennsylvania State University NERFINISHED ⓘ Yale University ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Heller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
black comedy
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satire ⓘ war fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Joseph NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Erica Heller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | United States Army Air Forces ⓘ |
| movement | postmodern literature ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Catch-22
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Closing Time NERFINISHED ⓘ God Knows NERFINISHED ⓘ Good as Gold NERFINISHED ⓘ Picture This NERFINISHED ⓘ Something Happened NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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playwright ⓘ satirist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Brooklyn
NERFINISHED
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New York NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
East Hampton
NERFINISHED
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New York NERFINISHED ⓘ United States of America ⓘ |
| religion | Judaism ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse |
Shirley Held
NERFINISHED
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Valerie Humphries NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingStyle | dark humor ⓘ |
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: Joseph Heller Description of subject: Joseph Heller was an American novelist and satirist best known for his darkly comic World War II novel "Catch-22."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.