Reynolds Price
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Reynolds Price was an American novelist, poet, and essayist known for his richly detailed Southern fiction and long tenure as a professor at Duke University.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Reynolds Price canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10955845 — 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: Reynolds Price Context triple: [Copperline, lyricist, Reynolds Price]
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A.
William Aiken
William Aiken was a prominent 19th-century South Carolina politician and governor whose influence led to places such as Aiken County being named in his honor.
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B.
B. H. Flowers
B. H. Flowers is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Flowers.
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William Merrill
William Merrill was an individual significant enough in local history that the town of Merrillville, Indiana, was named in his honor.
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D.
Conrad Aiken
Conrad Aiken was an American modernist poet, novelist, and critic known for his psychologically complex works and for winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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E.
F. S. Ellis
F. S. Ellis was a 19th-century English publisher and bookseller known for issuing works by prominent Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian authors, including William Morris.
- 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: Reynolds Price Target entity description: Reynolds Price was an American novelist, poet, and essayist known for his richly detailed Southern fiction and long tenure as a professor at Duke University.
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A.
William Aiken
William Aiken was a prominent 19th-century South Carolina politician and governor whose influence led to places such as Aiken County being named in his honor.
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B.
B. H. Flowers
B. H. Flowers is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Flowers.
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C.
William Merrill
William Merrill was an individual significant enough in local history that the town of Merrillville, Indiana, was named in his honor.
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D.
Conrad Aiken
Conrad Aiken was an American modernist poet, novelist, and critic known for his psychologically complex works and for winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
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E.
F. S. Ellis
F. S. Ellis was a 19th-century English publisher and bookseller known for issuing works by prominent Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian authors, including William Morris.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
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human ⓘ novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| awardReceived | William Faulkner Foundation Award NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| causeOfDisability | spinal cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1933-02-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2011-01-20 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Duke University
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University of Oxford ⓘ |
| employer | Duke University NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Price NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Southern literature
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essays ⓘ fiction writing ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| genre |
Southern fiction
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essay ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| givenName | Reynolds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Reynolds Price NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Long and Happy Life
NERFINISHED
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A Whole New Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Clear Pictures: First Loves, First Guides NERFINISHED ⓘ Kate Vaiden NERFINISHED ⓘ The Promise of Rest NERFINISHED ⓘ The Source of Light NERFINISHED ⓘ The Surface of Earth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
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novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ university professor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Macon, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Durham, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | James B. Duke Professor of English ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Durham, North Carolina NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| wroteAbout |
American South
NERFINISHED
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faith ⓘ family relationships ⓘ illness and disability ⓘ |
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: Reynolds Price Description of subject: Reynolds Price was an American novelist, poet, and essayist known for his richly detailed Southern fiction and long tenure as a professor at Duke University.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.