hasAuthor

P4244
predicate

Indicates that an entity is written or created by a specific author.

All labels observed (70)

Label Occurrences
hasContributor 3,073
hasAuthor canonical 2,424
authorOf 2,072

Description generation (PDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the predicate name and this instruction.

Instruction
Given a predicate that represents a relationship or action between entities, generate a one-sentence description explaining its meaning.  
# Instructions
Focus on describing the relationship, not the entities themselves. 
# Response Format
Begin the description with \' Indicates...\'
Input
Predicate: hasAuthor
Generated description
Indicates that an entity is written or created by a specific author.

Sample triples (10,610)

Subject Object
Bhagavad Gita Sri Aurobindo via predicate surface "hasCommentaryBy"
Bhagavad Gita Swami Prabhupada via predicate surface "hasCommentaryBy"
mezuzah qualified scribe via predicate surface "isWrittenBy"
Old English Ælfric of Eynsham
Old English King Alfred the Great
Old English Cynewulf
Russian language Alexander Pushkin via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
Russian language Leo Tolstoy via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
Russian language Fyodor Dostoevsky via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
Russian language Anton Chekhov via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
Russian language Nikolai Gogol via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
Marathi language Dnyaneshwari via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
surface form: Dnyaneshwar
Marathi language Namdev via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
Marathi language Tukaram’s abhangas via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
surface form: Tukaram
Marathi language Eknath via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
Marathi language Ramdas Swami via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
Marathi language Vishnu Vaman Shirwadkar (Kusumagraj) via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
Marathi language P. L. Deshpande via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
Marathi language Vijay Tendulkar via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
Persian language Rumi via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
Persian language Hafez via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
Persian language Saadi via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
Persian language Ferdowsi via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
Persian language Omar Khayyam via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
Phytologia Erasmus Darwin
Dictionary of National Biography numerous British historians via predicate surface "hasContributor"
Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman via predicate surface "authorOf"
Arthur Miller The Crucible via predicate surface "authorOf"
Arthur Miller All My Sons via predicate surface "authorOf"
Arthur Miller A View from the Bridge via predicate surface "authorOf"
Arthur Miller The Price via predicate surface "authorOf"
Arthur Miller After the Fall via predicate surface "authorOf"
The American Empire Project Tom Engelhardt via predicate surface "hasContributor"
The American Empire Project Chalmers Johnson via predicate surface "hasContributor"
The American Empire Project Noam Chomsky via predicate surface "hasContributor"
The American Empire Project Howard Zinn via predicate surface "hasContributor"
The American Empire Project Andrew Bacevich via predicate surface "hasContributor"
The American Empire Project Alfred W. McCoy via predicate surface "hasContributor"
The American Empire Project Greg Grandin via predicate surface "hasContributor"
The American Empire Project Stephen Kinzer via predicate surface "hasContributor"
The American Empire Project Dilip Hiro via predicate surface "hasContributor"
The American Empire Project Michael Klare via predicate surface "hasContributor"
The American Empire Project Juan Cole via predicate surface "hasContributor"
The American Empire Project Ira Chernus via predicate surface "hasContributor"
The American Empire Project Alfred W. McCoy via predicate surface "hasContributor"
surface form: Alfred McCoy
Scots Robert Burns via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
Scots Robert Fergusson via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
Scots Hugh MacDiarmid via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
Scots William Dunbar via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"
Scots Allan Ramsay via predicate surface "hasNotableAuthor"