Peter Matthiessen
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Peter Matthiessen was an American novelist, naturalist, and co-founder of The Paris Review, renowned for his literary fiction and environmental writing.
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| Peter Matthiessen canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10678155 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Peter Matthiessen Context triple: [At Play in the Fields of the Lord (film), authorOfSourceWork, Peter Matthiessen]
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James Michener
James Michener was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his meticulously researched, epic historical novels such as "Tales of the South Pacific" and "Hawaii."
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B.
James Salter
James Salter was an American novelist and short story writer acclaimed for his precise, elegant prose and works such as "A Sport and a Pastime" and "Light Years."
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C.
Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author and essayist best known for her meditative, nature-focused nonfiction such as "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek."
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D.
William T. Vollmann
William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for his ambitious, genre-blurring works that often explore violence, marginalization, and the moral complexities of history and contemporary society.
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John McPhee
John McPhee is an American writer and pioneer of creative nonfiction, renowned for his deeply reported books and long-form essays often published in The New Yorker.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Peter Matthiessen Target entity description: Peter Matthiessen was an American novelist, naturalist, and co-founder of The Paris Review, renowned for his literary fiction and environmental writing.
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A.
James Michener
James Michener was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author best known for his meticulously researched, epic historical novels such as "Tales of the South Pacific" and "Hawaii."
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B.
James Salter
James Salter was an American novelist and short story writer acclaimed for his precise, elegant prose and works such as "A Sport and a Pastime" and "Light Years."
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C.
Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard is a Pulitzer Prize–winning American author and essayist best known for her meditative, nature-focused nonfiction such as "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek."
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D.
William T. Vollmann
William T. Vollmann is an American novelist, journalist, and essayist known for his ambitious, genre-blurring works that often explore violence, marginalization, and the moral complexities of history and contemporary society.
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E.
John McPhee
John McPhee is an American writer and pioneer of creative nonfiction, renowned for his deeply reported books and long-form essays often published in The New Yorker.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Buddhist
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environmentalist ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ non-fiction writer ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
National Book Award for Contemporary Thought
NERFINISHED
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National Book Award for Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ National Book Award for Nonfiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coFounded | The Paris Review NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | Matthiessen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
environmental conservation
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journalism ⓘ literature ⓘ natural history ⓘ |
| genre |
environmental writing
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literary fiction ⓘ nature writing ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ travel literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Peter ⓘ |
| isCoFounderOf | The Paris Review NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | environmental movement ⓘ |
| name | Peter Matthiessen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-founding The Paris Review
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environmental activism ⓘ exploration of spiritual themes ⓘ nature and wildlife writing ⓘ |
| notableWork |
At Play in the Fields of the Lord
NERFINISHED
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Bone by Bone NERFINISHED ⓘ Far Tortuga NERFINISHED ⓘ In the Spirit of Crazy Horse NERFINISHED ⓘ Killing Mister Watson NERFINISHED ⓘ Lost Man’s River NERFINISHED ⓘ Men’s Lives NERFINISHED ⓘ Shadow Country NERFINISHED ⓘ The Snow Leopard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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environmentalist ⓘ journalist ⓘ literary critic ⓘ naturalist ⓘ novelist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| religion | Zen Buddhism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Peter Matthiessen Description of subject: Peter Matthiessen was an American novelist, naturalist, and co-founder of The Paris Review, renowned for his literary fiction and environmental writing.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.