Hilary Mantel
E111059
Hilary Mantel was an acclaimed English novelist best known for her historical fiction, particularly the "Wolf Hall" trilogy about Thomas Cromwell.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hilary Mantel canonical | 32 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T944510 — 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: Hilary Mantel Context triple: [Booker Prize, notableRecipient, Hilary Mantel]
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A.
Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks is a British novelist best known for his historical and war-themed fiction, including the acclaimed novel "Birdsong."
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B.
A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt was an acclaimed English novelist, critic, and academic best known for her Booker Prize-winning novel "Possession" and her intellectually rich, intertextual fiction.
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C.
Ali Smith
Ali Smith is a Scottish author acclaimed for her inventive, genre-blurring novels and short stories, including the seasonal quartet that begins with "Autumn."
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D.
Claire Finn
Claire Finn is a skilled and compassionate chief medical officer aboard the exploratory spaceship in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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E.
Laurence McKeown
Laurence McKeown is an Irish former Provisional IRA member, writer, and academic who became known for his participation in the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike and later work on conflict, memory, and reconciliation.
- 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: Hilary Mantel Target entity description: Hilary Mantel was an acclaimed English novelist best known for her historical fiction, particularly the "Wolf Hall" trilogy about Thomas Cromwell.
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A.
Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks is a British novelist best known for his historical and war-themed fiction, including the acclaimed novel "Birdsong."
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B.
A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt was an acclaimed English novelist, critic, and academic best known for her Booker Prize-winning novel "Possession" and her intellectually rich, intertextual fiction.
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C.
Ali Smith
Ali Smith is a Scottish author acclaimed for her inventive, genre-blurring novels and short stories, including the seasonal quartet that begins with "Autumn."
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D.
Claire Finn
Claire Finn is a skilled and compassionate chief medical officer aboard the exploratory spaceship in the science-fiction comedy-drama series "The Orville."
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E.
Laurence McKeown
Laurence McKeown is an Irish former Provisional IRA member, writer, and academic who became known for his participation in the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike and later work on conflict, memory, and reconciliation.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Hilary Mantel Description of subject: Hilary Mantel was an acclaimed English novelist best known for her historical fiction, particularly the "Wolf Hall" trilogy about Thomas Cromwell.
Referenced by (32)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.