Alec Waugh
E156586
Alec Waugh was a British novelist and travel writer, known for works such as "Island in the Sun" and for being the elder brother of author Evelyn Waugh.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alec Waugh canonical | 23 |
| Alec Waugh bibliography | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1318490 — 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: Alec Waugh Context triple: [Evelyn Waugh, sibling, Alec Waugh]
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A.
Auberon Waugh
Auberon Waugh was a British journalist, satirist, and author known for his acerbic wit and long-running Private Eye column.
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B.
Arthur Waugh
Arthur Waugh was a British author, literary critic, and publisher, best known for his influential role in early 20th-century English letters and as the patriarch of the Waugh literary family.
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C.
J. R. Ackerley
J. R. Ackerley was a British writer and editor best known for his candid memoirs and for serving as the longtime literary editor of The Listener.
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D.
Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh was a prominent 20th-century English novelist best known for his satirical and stylistically elegant works such as "Brideshead Revisited" and "A Handful of Dust."
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E.
Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume series "A Dance to the Music of Time," a landmark of 20th-century British literature.
- 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: Alec Waugh Target entity description: Alec Waugh was a British novelist and travel writer, known for works such as "Island in the Sun" and for being the elder brother of author Evelyn Waugh.
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A.
Auberon Waugh
Auberon Waugh was a British journalist, satirist, and author known for his acerbic wit and long-running Private Eye column.
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B.
Arthur Waugh
Arthur Waugh was a British author, literary critic, and publisher, best known for his influential role in early 20th-century English letters and as the patriarch of the Waugh literary family.
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C.
J. R. Ackerley
J. R. Ackerley was a British writer and editor best known for his candid memoirs and for serving as the longtime literary editor of The Listener.
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D.
Evelyn Waugh
Evelyn Waugh was a prominent 20th-century English novelist best known for his satirical and stylistically elegant works such as "Brideshead Revisited" and "A Handful of Dust."
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E.
Anthony Powell
Anthony Powell was an English novelist best known for his twelve-volume series "A Dance to the Music of Time," a landmark of 20th-century British literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
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: Alec Waugh Description of subject: Alec Waugh was a British novelist and travel writer, known for works such as "Island in the Sun" and for being the elder brother of author Evelyn Waugh.
Referenced by (24)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.