Cheryl Strayed
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Cheryl Strayed is an American writer and memoirist best known for her bestselling memoir "Wild," which chronicles her transformative solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cheryl Strayed canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8163941 — 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: Cheryl Strayed Context triple: [Riverhead Books, publishesAuthor, Cheryl Strayed]
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A.
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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B.
Kristin Yancey
Kristin Yancey is a fictional character from the American television sitcom "Kristin."
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C.
Julia Phillips
Julia Phillips was a pioneering American film producer and writer, best known for helping bring landmark 1970s films like "Taxi Driver" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" to the screen and for being the first female producer to win a Best Picture Oscar.
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D.
Molly Smith
Molly Smith is an American film producer known for her work on acclaimed movies such as the crime thriller "Sicario."
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E.
Molly Smith
Molly Smith is a daughter of FedEx founder and CEO Frederick W. Smith.
- 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: Cheryl Strayed Target entity description: Cheryl Strayed is an American writer and memoirist best known for her bestselling memoir "Wild," which chronicles her transformative solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail.
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A.
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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B.
Kristin Yancey
Kristin Yancey is a fictional character from the American television sitcom "Kristin."
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C.
Julia Phillips
Julia Phillips was a pioneering American film producer and writer, best known for helping bring landmark 1970s films like "Taxi Driver" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" to the screen and for being the first female producer to win a Best Picture Oscar.
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D.
Molly Smith
Molly Smith is a daughter of FedEx founder and CEO Frederick W. Smith.
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E.
Molly Smith
Molly Smith is an American film producer known for her work on acclaimed movies such as the crime thriller "Sicario."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
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human ⓘ memoirist ⓘ novelist ⓘ podcast host ⓘ |
| academicDegree |
Bachelor of Arts in English
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Master of Fine Arts in fiction writing ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Oregon Book Award
NERFINISHED
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Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnHerWork | television series Tiny Beautiful Things NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Cheryl Nyland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coHost | Steve Almond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1968-09-18 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Syracuse University
NERFINISHED
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University of Minnesota NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Strayed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
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memoir ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ personal essay ⓘ |
| givenName | Cheryl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hosted | Dear Sugars podcast NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredWork | film Wild (2014) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary literature ⓘ |
| name | Cheryl Strayed NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | Wild spent many weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Tiny Beautiful Things
NERFINISHED
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Torch NERFINISHED ⓘ Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
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memoirist ⓘ novelist ⓘ podcast host ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Spangler, Pennsylvania, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Reese Witherspoon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Portland, Oregon, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Brian Lindstrom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | film Wild (2014) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Portland, Oregon, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
Brave Enough
NERFINISHED
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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar NERFINISHED ⓘ Torch NERFINISHED ⓘ Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail 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: Cheryl Strayed Description of subject: Cheryl Strayed is an American writer and memoirist best known for her bestselling memoir "Wild," which chronicles her transformative solo hike along the Pacific Crest Trail.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Laura Jeanne Reese Witherspoon