Don Winslow
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Don Winslow is an American crime and thriller novelist known for his gritty, fast-paced stories, including the book that inspired the film "Savages."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Don Winslow canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10862714 — 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: Don Winslow Context triple: [Savages (2012 film), basedOnAuthor, Don Winslow]
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A.
Barrett Doss
Barrett Doss is an American actress and singer best known for her starring role as firefighter Victoria Hughes on the television drama series "Station 19."
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B.
Ned Rawlins
Ned Rawlins is a character in Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Man in the Maze," involved in the story’s exploration of alien contact and human isolation.
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C.
Doug Drummond
Doug Drummond is a Canadian municipal politician who served as mayor of the city of Burnaby, British Columbia.
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D.
Frank Reavis
Frank Reavis was an American politician and public figure significant enough in his community that a high school was named in his honor.
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E.
Lt. Aldo Raine
Lt. Aldo Raine is a fictional, tough-talking American Army officer who leads a squad of Jewish-American soldiers on a brutal mission against Nazis in Quentin Tarantino’s film "Inglourious Basterds."
- 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: Don Winslow Target entity description: Don Winslow is an American crime and thriller novelist known for his gritty, fast-paced stories, including the book that inspired the film "Savages."
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A.
Barrett Doss
Barrett Doss is an American actress and singer best known for her starring role as firefighter Victoria Hughes on the television drama series "Station 19."
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B.
Ned Rawlins
Ned Rawlins is a character in Robert Silverberg’s science fiction novel "The Man in the Maze," involved in the story’s exploration of alien contact and human isolation.
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C.
Doug Drummond
Doug Drummond is a Canadian municipal politician who served as mayor of the city of Burnaby, British Columbia.
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D.
Frank Reavis
Frank Reavis was an American politician and public figure significant enough in his community that a high school was named in his honor.
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E.
Lt. Aldo Raine
Lt. Aldo Raine is a fictional, tough-talking American Army officer who leads a squad of Jewish-American soldiers on a brutal mission against Nazis in Quentin Tarantino’s film "Inglourious Basterds."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novelist
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person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| activeIn |
21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| adaptedAs | Savages (2012 film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| author | Don Winslow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Raymond Chandler Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Shane Salerno NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1953-10-31 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of California, Irvine
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Nebraska NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Winslow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
ⓘ
detective fiction ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| givenName | Don NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://donwinslow.com ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Don Winslow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | depicting Mexican drug cartels in fiction ⓘ |
| notableSeries |
Cartel trilogy
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dawn Patrol series NERFINISHED ⓘ Neal Carey series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Cool Breeze on the Underground
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
California Fire and Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Savages NERFINISHED ⓘ The Border NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cartel NERFINISHED ⓘ The Dawn Patrol NERFINISHED ⓘ The Death and Life of Bobby Z NERFINISHED ⓘ The Force NERFINISHED ⓘ The Power of the Dog NERFINISHED ⓘ The Winter of Frankie Machine NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
ⓘ
director of Shakespearean theater ⓘ novelist ⓘ private investigator ⓘ safari guide ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | New York City ⓘ |
| politicalActivity | public critic of Donald Trump ⓘ |
| residence |
California, United States
ⓘ
surface form:
California
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| workInspiredFilm | Savages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
fast-paced
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gritty ⓘ |
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: Don Winslow Description of subject: Don Winslow is an American crime and thriller novelist known for his gritty, fast-paced stories, including the book that inspired the film "Savages."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.