David Holloway
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David Holloway is a literary figure best known for serving on the distinguished jury that selected the Booker of Bookers award.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Holloway canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1392509 — 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: David Holloway Context triple: [Booker of Bookers, notableJuryMember, David Holloway]
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A.
John Seale
John Seale is an Australian cinematographer renowned for his Academy Award–winning work on films such as "The English Patient" and his visually striking collaborations with major directors.
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B.
Peter Harvey
Peter Harvey is a set designer known for his work on the production "Diamonds."
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C.
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke was a British historian and scholar renowned for his influential research on Western esotericism, occultism, and their intersections with modern political ideologies.
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D.
Thomas J. C. Martyn
Thomas J. C. Martyn was a British-born journalist and editor best known as the founder of the American news magazine Newsweek.
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E.
Edward Shorter
Edward Shorter is a historian of psychiatry known for his influential works on the social and cultural history of mental illness and psychiatric treatment.
- 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: David Holloway Target entity description: David Holloway is a literary figure best known for serving on the distinguished jury that selected the Booker of Bookers award.
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A.
John Seale
John Seale is an Australian cinematographer renowned for his Academy Award–winning work on films such as "The English Patient" and his visually striking collaborations with major directors.
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B.
Peter Harvey
Peter Harvey is a set designer known for his work on the production "Diamonds."
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C.
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke was a British historian and scholar renowned for his influential research on Western esotericism, occultism, and their intersections with modern political ideologies.
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D.
Thomas J. C. Martyn
Thomas J. C. Martyn was a British-born journalist and editor best known as the founder of the American news magazine Newsweek.
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E.
Edward Shorter
Edward Shorter is a historian of psychiatry known for his influential works on the social and cultural history of mental illness and psychiatric treatment.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
literary figure
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| hasJuryMember | David Holloway ⓘ |
| hasMember | David Holloway ⓘ |
| knownFor | serving on the distinguished jury that selected the Booker of Bookers award ⓘ |
| memberOf | Booker of Bookers award jury ⓘ |
| notableWork | service on the Booker of Bookers jury ⓘ |
| occupation | literary critic ⓘ |
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: David Holloway Description of subject: David Holloway is a literary figure best known for serving on the distinguished jury that selected the Booker of Bookers award.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.