Mark Vonnegut
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Mark Vonnegut is an American pediatrician and memoirist known for writing about his experiences with mental illness and for being the son of author Kurt Vonnegut.
All labels observed (1)
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| Mark Vonnegut canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10159490 — 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: Mark Vonnegut Context triple: [Kurt Vonnegut, hasChild, Mark Vonnegut]
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A.
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut was an American novelist and satirist known for his darkly humorous, genre-blending works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle."
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B.
Kilgore Trout
Kilgore Trout is a recurring fictional science-fiction writer in Kurt Vonnegut’s novels, known for his outlandish story ideas and role as a vehicle for the author’s social and philosophical commentary.
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C.
William Gaddis
William Gaddis was an American postmodern novelist known for his dense, allusive, and formally experimental works such as "The Recognitions" and "JR."
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D.
Conrad Salinger
Conrad Salinger was an American arranger and orchestrator renowned for his lush, sophisticated scores for Hollywood musicals during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Thomas Wolff
Thomas Wolff was an influential American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations.
- 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: Mark Vonnegut Target entity description: Mark Vonnegut is an American pediatrician and memoirist known for writing about his experiences with mental illness and for being the son of author Kurt Vonnegut.
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A.
Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut was an American novelist and satirist known for his darkly humorous, genre-blending works such as "Slaughterhouse-Five" and "Cat's Cradle."
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B.
Kilgore Trout
Kilgore Trout is a recurring fictional science-fiction writer in Kurt Vonnegut’s novels, known for his outlandish story ideas and role as a vehicle for the author’s social and philosophical commentary.
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C.
William Gaddis
William Gaddis was an American postmodern novelist known for his dense, allusive, and formally experimental works such as "The Recognitions" and "JR."
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D.
Conrad Salinger
Conrad Salinger was an American arranger and orchestrator renowned for his lush, sophisticated scores for Hollywood musicals during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Thomas Wolff
Thomas Wolff was an influential American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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memoirist ⓘ pediatrician ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1947 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Harvard Medical School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Harvard University ⓘ |
| familyName | Vonnegut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
mental health writing
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pediatrics ⓘ |
| genre |
memoir
ⓘ
non-fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Mark NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDiagnosis |
bipolar disorder
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schizoaffective disorder ⓘ |
| hasFather | Kurt Vonnegut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasMother | Jane Marie Cox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
healthcare system in the United States
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pediatric practice ⓘ recovery from mental illness ⓘ schizophrenia-like psychosis ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
life as a physician
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mental illness ⓘ psychiatric treatment ⓘ |
| medicalSpecialty | pediatrics ⓘ |
| name | Mark Vonnegut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the son of author Kurt Vonnegut
ⓘ
writing about his experiences with mental illness ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Armies of the Night: A Memoir of Struggle with Mental Illness
NERFINISHED
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Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So NERFINISHED ⓘ The Eden Express NERFINISHED ⓘ The Heart of Caring: A Life in Pediatrics NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
memoirist ⓘ pediatrician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | Massachusetts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Edith Vonnegut
NERFINISHED
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Jane Marie Cox NERFINISHED ⓘ Kurt Vonnegut NERFINISHED ⓘ Nanette Vonnegut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Edith Vonnegut
NERFINISHED
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Nanette Vonnegut NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Mark Vonnegut Description of subject: Mark Vonnegut is an American pediatrician and memoirist known for writing about his experiences with mental illness and for being the son of author Kurt Vonnegut.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.