Judith Guest
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Judith Guest is an American novelist best known for her debut novel "Ordinary People," which was adapted into an Academy Award–winning film.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Judith Guest canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8019928 — 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: Judith Guest Context triple: [Ordinary People, basedOnWorkAuthor, Judith Guest]
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A.
Lee Smith
Lee Smith is a Hall of Fame former Major League Baseball closer renowned as one of the most dominant relief pitchers of his era.
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B.
Lee Smith
Lee Smith is an acclaimed Australian film editor known for his work on major films such as Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy and Dunkirk.
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C.
Paulette Jiles
Paulette Jiles is an American poet and novelist best known for her historical fiction, including the novel "News of the World."
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D.
Fannie Flagg
Fannie Flagg is an American author, actress, and comedian best known for her novel "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe," which was adapted into the popular film "Fried Green Tomatoes."
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E.
Francine Rivers
Francine Rivers is a bestselling American author known for her inspirational Christian fiction novels, particularly "Redeeming Love."
- 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: Judith Guest Target entity description: Judith Guest is an American novelist best known for her debut novel "Ordinary People," which was adapted into an Academy Award–winning film.
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A.
Lee Smith
Lee Smith is a Hall of Fame former Major League Baseball closer renowned as one of the most dominant relief pitchers of his era.
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B.
Lee Smith
Lee Smith is an acclaimed Australian film editor known for his work on major films such as Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy and Dunkirk.
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C.
Paulette Jiles
Paulette Jiles is an American poet and novelist best known for her historical fiction, including the novel "News of the World."
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D.
Fannie Flagg
Fannie Flagg is an American author, actress, and comedian best known for her novel "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe," which was adapted into the popular film "Fried Green Tomatoes."
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E.
Francine Rivers
Francine Rivers is a bestselling American author known for her inspirational Christian fiction novels, particularly "Redeeming Love."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
film
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human ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | film Ordinary People ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Michigan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Judith Guest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Academy Award for Best Director
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Academy Award for Best Picture NERFINISHED ⓘ Academy Award for Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Ordinary People NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | Killing Time in St. Cloud NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthorWith | Rebecca Hill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Michigan ⓘ |
| familyName | Guest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
family drama
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family drama ⓘ fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Judith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedWork | film Ordinary People ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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English ⓘ English ⓘ |
| name | Judith Guest NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor | debut novel Ordinary People ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Errands
NERFINISHED
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Killing Time in St. Cloud NERFINISHED ⓘ Ordinary People NERFINISHED ⓘ Second Heaven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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screenwriter ⓘ |
| workAdaptedAs | film Ordinary People ⓘ |
| workLocation | United States of America ⓘ |
| wrote |
Errands
NERFINISHED
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Killing Time in St. Cloud NERFINISHED ⓘ Ordinary People NERFINISHED ⓘ Second Heaven 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: Judith Guest Description of subject: Judith Guest is an American novelist best known for her debut novel "Ordinary People," which was adapted into an Academy Award–winning film.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.