Adam Haslett
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Adam Haslett is an American author and journalist known for his critically acclaimed fiction exploring themes of mental illness, family, and contemporary politics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Adam Haslett canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9592332 — 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: Adam Haslett Context triple: [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hasPublished, Adam Haslett]
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A.
Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his novel "The Orphan Master's Son," which explores life in North Korea.
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B.
Matthew Quick
Matthew Quick is an American novelist best known for writing "The Silver Linings Playbook," which was adapted into an Academy Award–winning film.
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C.
Stewart O'Nan
Stewart O'Nan is an American novelist known for his quietly powerful, character-driven fiction that often explores the lives of ordinary people in contemporary America.
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D.
David Greenwalt
David Greenwalt is an American television producer, writer, and director best known for his work on genre series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel.
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E.
George Saunders
George Saunders is an acclaimed American writer known for his inventive short stories, satirical style, and the Booker Prize–winning novel "Lincoln in the Bardo."
- 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: Adam Haslett Target entity description: Adam Haslett is an American author and journalist known for his critically acclaimed fiction exploring themes of mental illness, family, and contemporary politics.
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A.
Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his novel "The Orphan Master's Son," which explores life in North Korea.
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B.
Matthew Quick
Matthew Quick is an American novelist best known for writing "The Silver Linings Playbook," which was adapted into an Academy Award–winning film.
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C.
Stewart O'Nan
Stewart O'Nan is an American novelist known for his quietly powerful, character-driven fiction that often explores the lives of ordinary people in contemporary America.
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D.
David Greenwalt
David Greenwalt is an American television producer, writer, and director best known for his work on genre series such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel.
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E.
George Saunders
George Saunders is an acclaimed American writer known for his inventive short stories, satirical style, and the Booker Prize–winning novel "Lincoln in the Bardo."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
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journalist ⓘ novelist ⓘ person ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for First Fiction
NERFINISHED
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PEN/Malamud Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Iowa Writers' Workshop
NERFINISHED
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Swarthmore College NERFINISHED ⓘ Yale Law School ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
essays
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fiction ⓘ journalism ⓘ |
| genre |
literary fiction
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political fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| hasWrittenForm |
essays
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journalism ⓘ novels ⓘ short stories ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary literature ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| nominatedFor |
National Book Award for Fiction
NERFINISHED
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National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePublicationContext |
The Atlantic
NERFINISHED
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The Financial Times NERFINISHED ⓘ The New Yorker NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Imagine Me Gone
NERFINISHED
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Union Atlantic NERFINISHED ⓘ You Are Not a Stranger Here NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
ⓘ
journalist ⓘ novelist ⓘ short story writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| writingSubject |
American society
NERFINISHED
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contemporary politics ⓘ family relationships ⓘ mental illness ⓘ |
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: Adam Haslett Description of subject: Adam Haslett is an American author and journalist known for his critically acclaimed fiction exploring themes of mental illness, family, and contemporary politics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.