Suppose The Great Gatsby is a novel written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, first published in 1925. It is set in the fictional town of West Egg on Long Island in the summer of 1922, and follows the life of millionaire Jay Gatsby and his pursuit of Daisy Buchanan.
Can we infer that "F. Scott Fitzgerald based the character of Jay Gatsby on a real-life person he knew"? Yes, no, or maybe?