Peter Dexter
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Peter Dexter is an American novelist and screenwriter known for his darkly comic, character-driven stories and the National Book Award–winning novel "Paris Trout."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter Dexter canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11603642 — 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: Peter Dexter Context triple: [Michael (1996 film), screenwriter, Peter Dexter]
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A.
Lawrence Block
Lawrence Block is a prolific American crime and mystery novelist best known for his Matthew Scudder and Bernie Rhodenbarr series.
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B.
Charles Glass
Charles Glass is an American-British journalist, author, and broadcaster best known for his reporting from the Middle East and his work as ABC News chief Middle East correspondent.
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C.
Philip Dexter
Philip Dexter is a central figure in the 1973 mystery film "The Last of Sheila," around whom much of the movie’s intricate whodunit plot and character dynamics revolve.
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D.
Charles Willeford
Charles Willeford was an American crime novelist and cult writer known for his darkly comic, offbeat hardboiled fiction, including the Hoke Moseley series.
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E.
Thomas B. Harris
Thomas B. Harris was a local figure of historical significance after whom the village of Thomasboro, Illinois, was named.
- 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: Peter Dexter Target entity description: Peter Dexter is an American novelist and screenwriter known for his darkly comic, character-driven stories and the National Book Award–winning novel "Paris Trout."
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A.
Lawrence Block
Lawrence Block is a prolific American crime and mystery novelist best known for his Matthew Scudder and Bernie Rhodenbarr series.
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B.
Charles Glass
Charles Glass is an American-British journalist, author, and broadcaster best known for his reporting from the Middle East and his work as ABC News chief Middle East correspondent.
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C.
Philip Dexter
Philip Dexter is a central figure in the 1973 mystery film "The Last of Sheila," around whom much of the movie’s intricate whodunit plot and character dynamics revolve.
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D.
Charles Willeford
Charles Willeford was an American crime novelist and cult writer known for his darkly comic, offbeat hardboiled fiction, including the Hoke Moseley series.
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E.
Thomas B. Harris
Thomas B. Harris was a local figure of historical significance after whom the village of Thomasboro, Illinois, was named.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
journalist
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ person ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived | National Book Award for Fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre |
dark comedy
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literary fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | American ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | Won the National Book Award for Fiction for "Paris Trout" ⓘ |
| notableFor | darkly comic, character-driven stories ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Deadwood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
God’s Pocket NERFINISHED ⓘ Paris Trout NERFINISHED ⓘ The Paperboy NERFINISHED ⓘ Train NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | United States of America ⓘ |
| workAdaptedToFilm |
God’s Pocket
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Paris Trout NERFINISHED ⓘ The Paperboy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
character-driven
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darkly comic ⓘ |
| wrote |
novel "Brotherly Love"
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
novel "Deadwood" NERFINISHED ⓘ novel "God’s Pocket" NERFINISHED ⓘ novel "Paris Trout" NERFINISHED ⓘ novel "Spooner" NERFINISHED ⓘ novel "The Paperboy" ⓘ novel "Train" 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: Peter Dexter Description of subject: Peter Dexter is an American novelist and screenwriter known for his darkly comic, character-driven stories and the National Book Award–winning novel "Paris Trout."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.