Valeria Luiselli
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Valeria Luiselli is a Mexican author and essayist known for her innovative, multilingual narratives that explore migration, identity, and the US–Mexico border.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Valeria Luiselli canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9592339 — 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: Valeria Luiselli Context triple: [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hasPublished, Valeria Luiselli]
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A.
Vendela Vida
Vendela Vida is an American novelist, editor, and screenwriter known for her literary fiction and for co-founding the publishing house McSweeney’s.
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B.
Úrsula Iguarán
Úrsula Iguarán is the resilient matriarch of the Buendía family in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," embodying endurance, moral authority, and the continuity of the family across generations.
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C.
Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss is an acclaimed contemporary American novelist known for her introspective, formally inventive works such as "The History of Love" and "Great House," which often explore memory, identity, and Jewish history.
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D.
Cristina García
Cristina García is a Cuban American novelist and journalist best known for her debut novel "Dreaming in Cuban," which explores themes of exile, identity, and family across generations.
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E.
Sylvana Tomaselli
Sylvana Tomaselli is a Canadian-born historian and academic, known for her work on political thought and as a member of the British royal family through her marriage to George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews.
- 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: Valeria Luiselli Target entity description: Valeria Luiselli is a Mexican author and essayist known for her innovative, multilingual narratives that explore migration, identity, and the US–Mexico border.
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A.
Vendela Vida
Vendela Vida is an American novelist, editor, and screenwriter known for her literary fiction and for co-founding the publishing house McSweeney’s.
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B.
Úrsula Iguarán
Úrsula Iguarán is the resilient matriarch of the Buendía family in Gabriel García Márquez’s novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude," embodying endurance, moral authority, and the continuity of the family across generations.
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C.
Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss is an acclaimed contemporary American novelist known for her introspective, formally inventive works such as "The History of Love" and "Great House," which often explore memory, identity, and Jewish history.
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D.
Cristina García
Cristina García is a Cuban American novelist and journalist best known for her debut novel "Dreaming in Cuban," which explores themes of exile, identity, and family across generations.
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E.
Sylvana Tomaselli
Sylvana Tomaselli is a Canadian-born historian and academic, known for her work on political thought and as a member of the British royal family through her marriage to George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
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human ⓘ novelist ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| about |
Central American child migrants in the United States
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family road trip and migrant children at the US–Mexico border ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
American Book Award
NERFINISHED
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Dublin Literary Award nomination NERFINISHED ⓘ Kirkus Prize for Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOnExperience | Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Mexico ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1983-08-16 ⓘ |
| education |
National Autonomous University of Mexico
NERFINISHED
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University of Warwick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Bard College NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Luiselli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
essay
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literature ⓘ translation ⓘ |
| genre |
autofiction
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essay ⓘ fiction ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Valeria NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole | advocate for migrant rights ⓘ |
| languagesSpokenWritten |
English
ⓘ
Spanish ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary literature ⓘ |
| name | Valeria Luiselli NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
US–Mexico border
NERFINISHED
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child migrants ⓘ identity ⓘ migration ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Faces in the Crowd
NERFINISHED
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Lost Children Archive NERFINISHED ⓘ Sidewalks NERFINISHED ⓘ Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions NERFINISHED ⓘ The Story of My Teeth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | university professor ⓘ |
| originalLanguageOfWork | Spanish ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Mexico City NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
New York City
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United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
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| translatedInto |
English
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multiple languages ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
experimental narrative structures
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hybrid essay-fiction forms ⓘ multilingual ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Valeria Luiselli Description of subject: Valeria Luiselli is a Mexican author and essayist known for her innovative, multilingual narratives that explore migration, identity, and the US–Mexico border.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.