Holly Black
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Holly Black is an American fantasy author best known for co-creating the children's series "The Spiderwick Chronicles."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Holly Black canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9660904 — 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: Holly Black Context triple: [The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008 film), basedOnWorkBy, Holly Black]
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A.
Cassandra Clare
Cassandra Clare is a bestselling American author of young adult urban fantasy novels, best known for creating the Shadowhunter Chronicles series.
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B.
Sarah Shephard
Sarah Shephard is a fictional character from the television series "Lost," known as Jack Shephard’s ex-wife.
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C.
Gail Carriger
Gail Carriger is a bestselling American author known for her humorous steampunk and paranormal romance novels, particularly the Parasol Protectorate series.
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D.
Emily M. Danforth
Emily M. Danforth is an American novelist best known for her acclaimed coming-of-age LGBTQ+ novel "The Miseducation of Cameron Post."
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E.
T. Kingfisher
T. Kingfisher is the pen name of American author Ursula Vernon, known for her acclaimed fantasy and horror fiction for both adults and young adults.
- 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: Holly Black Target entity description: Holly Black is an American fantasy author best known for co-creating the children's series "The Spiderwick Chronicles."
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A.
Cassandra Clare
Cassandra Clare is a bestselling American author of young adult urban fantasy novels, best known for creating the Shadowhunter Chronicles series.
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B.
Sarah Shephard
Sarah Shephard is a fictional character from the television series "Lost," known as Jack Shephard’s ex-wife.
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C.
Gail Carriger
Gail Carriger is a bestselling American author known for her humorous steampunk and paranormal romance novels, particularly the Parasol Protectorate series.
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D.
Emily M. Danforth
Emily M. Danforth is an American novelist best known for her acclaimed coming-of-age LGBTQ+ novel "The Miseducation of Cameron Post."
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E.
T. Kingfisher
T. Kingfisher is the pen name of American author Ursula Vernon, known for her acclaimed fantasy and horror fiction for both adults and young adults.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
children's writer
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fantasy author ⓘ human ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Andre Norton Award for Young Adult Science Fiction and Fantasy
NERFINISHED
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Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Holly Riggenbach NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthorOf | Magisterium NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coCreatorOf | The Spiderwick Chronicles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Cassandra Clare
NERFINISHED
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Tony DiTerlizzi NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | speculative fiction ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
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fantasy ⓘ urban fantasy ⓘ young adult literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Holly NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Holly Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Black Heart
NERFINISHED
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Ironside: A Modern Faerie Tale NERFINISHED ⓘ Red Glove NERFINISHED ⓘ The Coldest Girl in Coldtown NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cruel Prince NERFINISHED ⓘ The Darkest Part of the Forest NERFINISHED ⓘ The Queen of Nothing NERFINISHED ⓘ The Spiderwick Chronicles NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wicked King NERFINISHED ⓘ Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale NERFINISHED ⓘ Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie NERFINISHED ⓘ White Cat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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editor ⓘ novelist ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| series |
Magisterium
NERFINISHED
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Modern Faerie Tales NERFINISHED ⓘ The Curse Workers NERFINISHED ⓘ The Folk of the Air NERFINISHED ⓘ The Spiderwick Chronicles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Theo Black NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writesAbout |
faeries
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magic ⓘ supernatural beings ⓘ |
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: Holly Black Description of subject: Holly Black is an American fantasy author best known for co-creating the children's series "The Spiderwick Chronicles."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.