Susannah Cahalan
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Susannah Cahalan is an American journalist and author best known for her memoir "Brain on Fire," which chronicles her harrowing experience with a rare autoimmune encephalitis that caused severe psychiatric and neurological symptoms.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Susannah Cahalan canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10325829 — 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: Susannah Cahalan Context triple: [Brain on Fire, mainCharacter, Susannah Cahalan]
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A.
Susanna Kaysen
Susanna Kaysen is an American writer best known for her memoir "Girl, Interrupted," which recounts her experiences in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s.
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B.
Meredith Logue
Meredith Logue is a fictional wealthy socialite character portrayed by Cate Blanchett in the 1999 film "The Talented Mr. Ripley."
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C.
Julia Phillips
Julia Phillips was a pioneering American film producer and writer, best known for helping bring landmark 1970s films like "Taxi Driver" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" to the screen and for being the first female producer to win a Best Picture Oscar.
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D.
Beverly Gage
Beverly Gage is an American historian and Yale professor known for her scholarship on 20th-century U.S. political history and her acclaimed biography of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
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E.
Deborah Kara Unger
Deborah Kara Unger is a Canadian actress known for her intense, often edgy performances in films such as "Crash," "The Game," and "Silent Hill."
- 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: Susannah Cahalan Target entity description: Susannah Cahalan is an American journalist and author best known for her memoir "Brain on Fire," which chronicles her harrowing experience with a rare autoimmune encephalitis that caused severe psychiatric and neurological symptoms.
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A.
Susanna Kaysen
Susanna Kaysen is an American writer best known for her memoir "Girl, Interrupted," which recounts her experiences in a psychiatric hospital in the 1960s.
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B.
Meredith Logue
Meredith Logue is a fictional wealthy socialite character portrayed by Cate Blanchett in the 1999 film "The Talented Mr. Ripley."
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C.
Julia Phillips
Julia Phillips was a pioneering American film producer and writer, best known for helping bring landmark 1970s films like "Taxi Driver" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" to the screen and for being the first female producer to win a Best Picture Oscar.
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D.
Beverly Gage
Beverly Gage is an American historian and Yale professor known for her scholarship on 20th-century U.S. political history and her acclaimed biography of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover.
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E.
Deborah Kara Unger
Deborah Kara Unger is a Canadian actress known for her intense, often edgy performances in films such as "Crash," "The Game," and "Silent Hill."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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film ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ memoirist ⓘ |
| author |
Susannah Cahalan
NERFINISHED
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Susannah Cahalan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Brain on Fire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Washington University in St. Louis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | New York Post NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
journalism
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neuropsychiatry-related writing ⓘ |
| genre |
memoir
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memoir ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasMedicalCondition |
anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
NERFINISHED
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autoimmune encephalitis ⓘ |
| hasRole | mental health advocate ⓘ |
| knownFor |
critiquing psychiatric diagnosis and research
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raising awareness of autoimmune encephalitis ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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English ⓘ English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
David Rosenhan
NERFINISHED
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On Being Sane in Insane Places NERFINISHED ⓘ Susannah Cahalan NERFINISHED ⓘ anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis NERFINISHED ⓘ autoimmune encephalitis ⓘ psychiatric misdiagnosis ⓘ psychiatric research ⓘ |
| notableEvent | hospitalization for autoimmune encephalitis ⓘ |
| notableFor | surviving anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Brain on Fire
NERFINISHED
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The Great Pretender NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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journalist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| subjectOf | Brain on Fire (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | New York City ⓘ |
| wrote |
Brain on Fire
NERFINISHED
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The Great Pretender NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Susannah Cahalan Description of subject: Susannah Cahalan is an American journalist and author best known for her memoir "Brain on Fire," which chronicles her harrowing experience with a rare autoimmune encephalitis that caused severe psychiatric and neurological symptoms.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.