Deborah Hopkinson
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Deborah Hopkinson is an American author best known for her historical fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults, often highlighting social justice and lesser-known figures from history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Deborah Hopkinson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9298668 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Deborah Hopkinson Context triple: [Hopkinson, hasNotableBearer, Deborah Hopkinson]
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A.
Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Debbie Ridpath Ohi is a Canadian author and illustrator best known for her whimsical, expressive artwork in children's picture books and middle-grade fiction.
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B.
Emily Jenkins
Emily Jenkins is an American author best known for her children's books and young adult fiction, often written under the pen name E. Lockhart.
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C.
Pamela Gray
Pamela Gray is an American screenwriter known for her work on character-driven drama films, including the military biographical film "Megan Leavey."
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D.
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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E.
Gail Carson Levine
Gail Carson Levine is an American author best known for her Newbery Honor–winning children's fantasy novel "Ella Enchanted."
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Deborah Hopkinson Target entity description: Deborah Hopkinson is an American author best known for her historical fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults, often highlighting social justice and lesser-known figures from history.
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A.
Debbie Ridpath Ohi
Debbie Ridpath Ohi is a Canadian author and illustrator best known for her whimsical, expressive artwork in children's picture books and middle-grade fiction.
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B.
Emily Jenkins
Emily Jenkins is an American author best known for her children's books and young adult fiction, often written under the pen name E. Lockhart.
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C.
Pamela Gray
Pamela Gray is an American screenwriter known for her work on character-driven drama films, including the military biographical film "Megan Leavey."
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D.
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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E.
Gail Carson Levine
Gail Carson Levine is an American author best known for her Newbery Honor–winning children's fantasy novel "Ella Enchanted."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
children's writer
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person ⓘ young adult writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
ALA Notable Children's Book selection
NERFINISHED
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Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor NERFINISHED ⓘ Golden Kite Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
bringing history to young readers
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highlighting overlooked stories from history ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
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historical fiction ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ young adult literature ⓘ |
| hasRole |
middle grade author
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picture book author ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Band of Angels
NERFINISHED
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A Letter to My Teacher NERFINISHED ⓘ Annie and Helen NERFINISHED ⓘ Apples to Oregon NERFINISHED ⓘ Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark NERFINISHED ⓘ Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific NERFINISHED ⓘ Independence Cake NERFINISHED ⓘ Keep On! The Story of Matthew Henson, Co-Discoverer of the North Pole NERFINISHED ⓘ Shutting Out the Sky: Life in the Tenements of New York 1880–1924 NERFINISHED ⓘ Sky Boys: How They Built the Empire State Building NERFINISHED ⓘ Steamboat School NERFINISHED ⓘ Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt NERFINISHED ⓘ The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel NERFINISHED ⓘ The Story of a Story NERFINISHED ⓘ Titanic: Voices from the Disaster NERFINISHED ⓘ Under the Quilt of Night NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
children's author
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writer ⓘ young adult author ⓘ |
| targetAudience |
children
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young adults ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
American history
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World War II NERFINISHED ⓘ immigration to the United States ⓘ lesser-known historical figures ⓘ slavery in the United States ⓘ social justice ⓘ |
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: Deborah Hopkinson Description of subject: Deborah Hopkinson is an American author best known for her historical fiction and nonfiction books for children and young adults, often highlighting social justice and lesser-known figures from history.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.