Maira Kalman
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Maira Kalman is an Israeli-born American artist, illustrator, and author known for her whimsical, narrative paintings and collaborations on books and magazine covers, including work for The New Yorker.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maira Kalman canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7907351 — 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: Maira Kalman Context triple: [The Elements of Style, hasIllustrator, Maira Kalman]
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A.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Amy Krouse Rosenthal was an American author, filmmaker, and radio host best known for her inventive children's books and poignant personal essays, including her widely read New York Times piece "You May Want to Marry My Husband."
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B.
Muriel Bagge
Muriel Bagge is the kind, elderly Scottish woman who lovingly cares for Courage the Cowardly Dog in the animated horror-comedy series.
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C.
Joan Cohl
Joan Cohl is best known as the wife and partner of Canadian film producer and Toronto International Film Festival co-founder Dusty Cohl.
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D.
Peter Mendelsund
Peter Mendelsund is a renowned book cover designer and art director known for his distinctive, conceptually driven designs for major literary works.
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E.
Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning was an American painter, sculptor, and writer renowned for her imaginative, dreamlike works that made her a significant figure in the Surrealist movement.
- 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: Maira Kalman Target entity description: Maira Kalman is an Israeli-born American artist, illustrator, and author known for her whimsical, narrative paintings and collaborations on books and magazine covers, including work for The New Yorker.
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A.
Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Amy Krouse Rosenthal was an American author, filmmaker, and radio host best known for her inventive children's books and poignant personal essays, including her widely read New York Times piece "You May Want to Marry My Husband."
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B.
Muriel Bagge
Muriel Bagge is the kind, elderly Scottish woman who lovingly cares for Courage the Cowardly Dog in the animated horror-comedy series.
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C.
Joan Cohl
Joan Cohl is best known as the wife and partner of Canadian film producer and Toronto International Film Festival co-founder Dusty Cohl.
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D.
Peter Mendelsund
Peter Mendelsund is a renowned book cover designer and art director known for his distinctive, conceptually driven designs for major literary works.
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E.
Dorothea Tanning
Dorothea Tanning was an American painter, sculptor, and writer renowned for her imaginative, dreamlike works that made her a significant figure in the Surrealist movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artist
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children's book author ⓘ illustrator ⓘ person ⓘ |
| birthName | Maira Berman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Alex Kalman
NERFINISHED
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Lulu Kalman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Alex Kalman
NERFINISHED
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Daniel Handler NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Pollan NERFINISHED ⓘ Nicolas Blechman NERFINISHED ⓘ Rick Meyerowitz NERFINISHED ⓘ The New Yorker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Israel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1949-11-15 ⓘ |
| employer | The New Yorker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
illustration
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painting ⓘ writing ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
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illustrated narrative ⓘ memoir ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.mairakalman.com/ ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Hebrew ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary art ⓘ |
| nationality | Israeli-American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
New Yorker covers
NERFINISHED
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book illustration ⓘ illustrated essays ⓘ whimsical narrative paintings ⓘ |
| notableWork |
And the Pursuit of Happiness
NERFINISHED
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Fireboat: The Heroic Adventures of the John J. Harvey NERFINISHED ⓘ Looking at Lincoln NERFINISHED ⓘ Max Makes a Million NERFINISHED ⓘ Next Stop Grand Central NERFINISHED ⓘ Ooh-la-la (Max in Love) NERFINISHED ⓘ Stay Up Late (illustrations) ⓘ The Elements of Style (illustrated edition) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Principles of Uncertainty NERFINISHED ⓘ What Pete Ate from A to Z NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
cover artist
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designer ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Tel Aviv NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Tibor Kalman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style |
narrative
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whimsical ⓘ |
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: Maira Kalman Description of subject: Maira Kalman is an Israeli-born American artist, illustrator, and author known for her whimsical, narrative paintings and collaborations on books and magazine covers, including work for The New Yorker.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.