Ian Frazier
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Ian Frazier is an American writer and humorist best known for his essays and reportage in The New Yorker and books such as "Great Plains" and "On the Rez."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ian Frazier canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9592300 — 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: Ian Frazier Context triple: [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hasPublished, Ian Frazier]
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A.
Cliff Secord
Cliff Secord is the fictional stunt pilot who becomes the jetpack-wearing hero known as the Rocketeer in the comic books and film of the same name.
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B.
Bryan Trottier
Bryan Trottier is a Hall of Fame Canadian ice hockey center renowned as a cornerstone of the New York Islanders dynasty that won four consecutive Stanley Cups in the early 1980s.
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C.
Alan Geoffrion
Alan Geoffrion is an American author and screenwriter best known for creating the Western novel and miniseries "Broken Trail."
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D.
Simon Gagné
Simon Gagné is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey winger best known for his NHL career with teams like the Philadelphia Flyers and his scoring ability and speed.
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E.
Ronald Fleury
Ronald Fleury is the fictional lead FBI special agent portrayed by Jamie Foxx in the 2007 action-thriller film "The Kingdom."
- 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: Ian Frazier Target entity description: Ian Frazier is an American writer and humorist best known for his essays and reportage in The New Yorker and books such as "Great Plains" and "On the Rez."
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A.
Cliff Secord
Cliff Secord is the fictional stunt pilot who becomes the jetpack-wearing hero known as the Rocketeer in the comic books and film of the same name.
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B.
Bryan Trottier
Bryan Trottier is a Hall of Fame Canadian ice hockey center renowned as a cornerstone of the New York Islanders dynasty that won four consecutive Stanley Cups in the early 1980s.
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C.
Alan Geoffrion
Alan Geoffrion is an American author and screenwriter best known for creating the Western novel and miniseries "Broken Trail."
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D.
Simon Gagné
Simon Gagné is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey winger best known for his NHL career with teams like the Philadelphia Flyers and his scoring ability and speed.
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E.
Ronald Fleury
Ronald Fleury is the fictional lead FBI special agent portrayed by Jamie Foxx in the 2007 action-thriller film "The Kingdom."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
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human ⓘ journalist ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Thurber Prize for American Humor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1951 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Harvard University ⓘ |
| employer | The New Yorker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American West
NERFINISHED
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American culture ⓘ Native American life ⓘ Siberia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
essay
ⓘ
humor ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ reportage ⓘ travel literature ⓘ |
| hasWrittenFor |
Outside
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Atlantic NERFINISHED ⓘ The New Yorker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableFor |
essays in The New Yorker
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humorous essays ⓘ reportage in The New Yorker ⓘ reportage on Native American reservations ⓘ travel writing about the Great Plains ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Coyote v. Acme
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dating Your Mom NERFINISHED ⓘ Great Plains NERFINISHED ⓘ Hogs Wild NERFINISHED ⓘ Lamentations of the Father NERFINISHED ⓘ On the Rez NERFINISHED ⓘ The Fish’s Eye NERFINISHED ⓘ Travels in Siberia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
ⓘ
humorist ⓘ journalist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cleveland, Ohio NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| spouse | Jacqueline Carey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writesFor |
Atlantic Monthly
NERFINISHED
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The New Yorker 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: Ian Frazier Description of subject: Ian Frazier is an American writer and humorist best known for his essays and reportage in The New Yorker and books such as "Great Plains" and "On the Rez."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.