Iris Murdoch
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Iris Murdoch was a British novelist and philosopher renowned for her psychologically complex fiction and explorations of morality, freedom, and love.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Iris Murdoch canonical | 37 |
| Jean Iris Murdoch | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1905919 — 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: Iris Murdoch Context triple: [Chatto & Windus, publishedAuthor, Iris Murdoch]
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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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Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was a German-born British-American novelist and screenwriter best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions and her multiple Academy Award–winning literary adaptations.
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C.
Naomi Mitchison
Naomi Mitchison was a prolific 20th-century Scottish novelist, poet, and social activist known for her historical and speculative fiction as well as her engagement in feminist and socialist causes.
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D.
Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing was a British-Zimbabwean novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate renowned for her incisive explorations of politics, psychology, and gender, particularly in works like "The Golden Notebook."
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E.
Elizabeth Anscombe
Elizabeth Anscombe was a prominent 20th-century analytic philosopher known for her influential work in ethics, philosophy of action, and her role in editing and interpreting Ludwig Wittgenstein’s writings.
- 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: Iris Murdoch Target entity description: Iris Murdoch was a British novelist and philosopher renowned for her psychologically complex fiction and explorations of morality, freedom, and love.
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A.
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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B.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala was a German-born British-American novelist and screenwriter best known for her long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions and her multiple Academy Award–winning literary adaptations.
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C.
Naomi Mitchison
Naomi Mitchison was a prolific 20th-century Scottish novelist, poet, and social activist known for her historical and speculative fiction as well as her engagement in feminist and socialist causes.
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D.
Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing was a British-Zimbabwean novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature laureate renowned for her incisive explorations of politics, psychology, and gender, particularly in works like "The Golden Notebook."
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E.
Elizabeth Anscombe
Elizabeth Anscombe was a prominent 20th-century analytic philosopher known for her influential work in ethics, philosophy of action, and her role in editing and interpreting Ludwig Wittgenstein’s writings.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (56)
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: Iris Murdoch Description of subject: Iris Murdoch was a British novelist and philosopher renowned for her psychologically complex fiction and explorations of morality, freedom, and love.
Referenced by (38)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.