Eula Biss
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Eula Biss is an American writer and essayist known for her explorations of race, public health, and American culture in works such as "Notes from No Man’s Land" and "On Immunity."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eula Biss canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9592351 — 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: Eula Biss Context triple: [Farrar, Straus and Giroux, hasPublished, Eula Biss]
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A.
Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson is an American writer and critic known for her genre-blending works that combine memoir, theory, and cultural criticism, such as "The Argonauts."
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B.
Leslie Jamison
Leslie Jamison is an American writer and essayist known for her emotionally incisive nonfiction works such as "The Empathy Exams" and "The Recovering."
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C.
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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D.
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is an American writer, professor, and cultural critic known for her influential essays and books on feminism, race, body image, and pop culture, including the bestselling memoir "Hunger" and essay collection "Bad Feminist."
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E.
Moya Bailey
Moya Bailey is a Black feminist scholar and activist best known for coining the term “misogynoir” to describe the specific hatred directed at Black women.
- 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: Eula Biss Target entity description: Eula Biss is an American writer and essayist known for her explorations of race, public health, and American culture in works such as "Notes from No Man’s Land" and "On Immunity."
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A.
Maggie Nelson
Maggie Nelson is an American writer and critic known for her genre-blending works that combine memoir, theory, and cultural criticism, such as "The Argonauts."
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B.
Leslie Jamison
Leslie Jamison is an American writer and essayist known for her emotionally incisive nonfiction works such as "The Empathy Exams" and "The Recovering."
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C.
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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D.
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is an American writer, professor, and cultural critic known for her influential essays and books on feminism, race, body image, and pop culture, including the bestselling memoir "Hunger" and essay collection "Bad Feminist."
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E.
Moya Bailey
Moya Bailey is a Black feminist scholar and activist best known for coining the term “misogynoir” to describe the specific hatred directed at Black women.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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essayist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| author |
Eula Biss
NERFINISHED
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Eula Biss NERFINISHED ⓘ Eula Biss NERFINISHED ⓘ Eula Biss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize
NERFINISHED
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Guggenheim Fellowship ⓘ National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism NERFINISHED ⓘ Pushcart Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Whiting Writers’ Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Loyola University New Orleans
NERFINISHED
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University of Iowa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Northwestern University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Biss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
American culture
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economics of everyday life ⓘ public health ⓘ race ⓘ vaccination ⓘ whiteness studies ⓘ |
| genre |
essay
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essay collection ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ nonfiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Eula NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
capitalism
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ownership ⓘ public health ⓘ race in America ⓘ vaccination ⓘ |
| name | Eula Biss NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Having and Being Had
NERFINISHED
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Notes from No Man’s Land NERFINISHED ⓘ Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays NERFINISHED ⓘ On Immunity: An Inoculation NERFINISHED ⓘ The Balloonists NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
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writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Senior Lecturer in English ⓘ |
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: Eula Biss Description of subject: Eula Biss is an American writer and essayist known for her explorations of race, public health, and American culture in works such as "Notes from No Man’s Land" and "On Immunity."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.