Anne Lamott
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Anne Lamott is an American novelist and nonfiction writer known for her candid, humorous explorations of faith, addiction, motherhood, and the writing life in books such as "Bird by Bird" and "Traveling Mercies."
All labels observed (1)
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| Anne Lamott canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7605418 — 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: Anne Lamott Context triple: [Tamalpais High School, hasNotableAlumnus, Anne Lamott]
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Natalie Goldberg
Natalie Goldberg is an American author and writing teacher best known for her influential book "Writing Down the Bones," which popularized a Zen-inspired approach to creative writing practice.
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B.
Glennon Doyle
Glennon Doyle is an American author, speaker, and activist best known for her memoirs "Untamed" and "Love Warrior" and for her work on feminism, sobriety, and personal empowerment.
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C.
Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kidd is an American author best known for her bestselling novel "The Secret Life of Bees," which explores themes of race, motherhood, and female empowerment in the American South.
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D.
P. A. Evans
P. A. Evans is an astronomer known for discovering the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXIII in the Andromeda constellation.
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E.
Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner was an American Presbyterian minister, novelist, and theologian known for his reflective Christian writings that blend memoir, fiction, and spiritual insight.
- 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: Anne Lamott Target entity description: Anne Lamott is an American novelist and nonfiction writer known for her candid, humorous explorations of faith, addiction, motherhood, and the writing life in books such as "Bird by Bird" and "Traveling Mercies."
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A.
Natalie Goldberg
Natalie Goldberg is an American author and writing teacher best known for her influential book "Writing Down the Bones," which popularized a Zen-inspired approach to creative writing practice.
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B.
Glennon Doyle
Glennon Doyle is an American author, speaker, and activist best known for her memoirs "Untamed" and "Love Warrior" and for her work on feminism, sobriety, and personal empowerment.
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C.
Sue Monk Kidd
Sue Monk Kidd is an American author best known for her bestselling novel "The Secret Life of Bees," which explores themes of race, motherhood, and female empowerment in the American South.
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D.
P. A. Evans
P. A. Evans is an astronomer known for discovering the dwarf galaxy Andromeda XXIII in the Andromeda constellation.
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E.
Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner was an American Presbyterian minister, novelist, and theologian known for his reflective Christian writings that blend memoir, fiction, and spiritual insight.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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essayist ⓘ memoirist ⓘ nonfiction writer ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| author |
Anne Lamott
NERFINISHED
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Anne Lamott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1954-04-10 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Goucher College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Lamott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
creative writing
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literature ⓘ memoir writing ⓘ spiritual writing ⓘ |
| genre |
Christian literature
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fiction ⓘ humor ⓘ memoir ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ spirituality ⓘ |
| givenName | Anne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild | Sam Lamott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | progressive Christianity NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Anne Lamott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Almost Everything: Notes on Hope
NERFINISHED
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Bird by Bird NERFINISHED ⓘ Dusk, Night, Dawn NERFINISHED ⓘ Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith NERFINISHED ⓘ Hallelujah Anyway NERFINISHED ⓘ Hard Laughter NERFINISHED ⓘ Help Thanks Wow NERFINISHED ⓘ Joe Jones NERFINISHED ⓘ Operating Instructions NERFINISHED ⓘ Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith NERFINISHED ⓘ Rosie NERFINISHED ⓘ Small Victories NERFINISHED ⓘ Traveling Mercies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
nonfiction writer
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novelist ⓘ public speaker ⓘ teacher ⓘ writing instructor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | San Francisco, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Marin County, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
addiction
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faith ⓘ motherhood ⓘ writing ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
candid
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humorous ⓘ |
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: Anne Lamott Description of subject: Anne Lamott is an American novelist and nonfiction writer known for her candid, humorous explorations of faith, addiction, motherhood, and the writing life in books such as "Bird by Bird" and "Traveling Mercies."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.