Shirley Jackson's husband
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Shirley Jackson's husband is Stanley Edgar Hyman, an American literary critic and professor known for his influential work in literary theory and his marriage to the author Shirley Jackson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Shirley Jackson's husband canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8317098 — 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: Shirley Jackson's husband Context triple: [Life Among the Savages, featuresCharacter, Shirley Jackson's husband]
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A.
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson was an American author renowned for her unsettling works of psychological horror and darkly satirical fiction, including the classic short story "The Lottery" and the novel "The Haunting of Hill House."
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B.
Marie Jillich Salinger
Marie Jillich Salinger was the mother of American writer J. D. Salinger and a formative influence in his early life.
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C.
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is a prolific American writer known for her psychologically intense novels and short stories that explore violence, identity, and the darker aspects of contemporary life.
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D.
Sophia Hawthorne
Sophia Hawthorne was an American painter and illustrator of the 19th century, best known as the wife of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and a member of the prominent Peabody intellectual family.
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E.
Margaret Salinger
Margaret Salinger is an American author and memoirist best known for her book "Dream Catcher," which recounts her life as the daughter of reclusive writer J. D. Salinger.
- 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: Shirley Jackson's husband Target entity description: Shirley Jackson's husband is Stanley Edgar Hyman, an American literary critic and professor known for his influential work in literary theory and his marriage to the author Shirley Jackson.
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A.
Shirley Jackson
Shirley Jackson was an American author renowned for her unsettling works of psychological horror and darkly satirical fiction, including the classic short story "The Lottery" and the novel "The Haunting of Hill House."
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B.
Marie Jillich Salinger
Marie Jillich Salinger was the mother of American writer J. D. Salinger and a formative influence in his early life.
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C.
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates is a prolific American writer known for her psychologically intense novels and short stories that explore violence, identity, and the darker aspects of contemporary life.
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D.
Sophia Hawthorne
Sophia Hawthorne was an American painter and illustrator of the 19th century, best known as the wife of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and a member of the prominent Peabody intellectual family.
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E.
Margaret Salinger
Margaret Salinger is an American author and memoirist best known for her book "Dream Catcher," which recounts her life as the daughter of reclusive writer J. D. Salinger.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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literary critic ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1919-07-11 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1970-07-30 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Syracuse University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Bennington College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Jewish Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Hyman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literary criticism
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literary theory ⓘ |
| genre | literary criticism ⓘ |
| givenName | Stanley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasChild |
Barry Hyman
NERFINISHED
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Jannie Hyman NERFINISHED ⓘ Laurence Jackson Hyman NERFINISHED ⓘ Sarah Hyman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Shirley Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Kenneth Burke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Stanley Edgar Hyman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influential work in literary theory
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marriage to Shirley Jackson ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Standards
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The Armed Vision NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tangled Bank NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
literary critic
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professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | North Bennington, Vermont, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | North Bennington, Vermont, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Shirley Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Shirley Jackson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studentOf | Kenneth Burke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
Critical essays on American literature
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Standards ⓘ The Armed Vision NERFINISHED ⓘ The Tangled Bank 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: Shirley Jackson's husband Description of subject: Shirley Jackson's husband is Stanley Edgar Hyman, an American literary critic and professor known for his influential work in literary theory and his marriage to the author Shirley Jackson.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Life Among the Savages