David Irving
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David Irving is the son of American novelist Clifford Irving, who was known for his controversial literary hoaxes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Irving canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2021322 — 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 Irving Context triple: [Clifford Irving, child, David Irving]
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A.
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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B.
Norman Finkelstein
Norman Finkelstein is an American political scientist, author, and commentator known for his controversial critiques of Israeli policy and the politics surrounding the Holocaust.
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C.
Deborah E. Lipstadt
Deborah E. Lipstadt is an American historian and scholar renowned for her work on Holocaust studies and the fight against Holocaust denial.
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D.
Alfred Rosenberg
Alfred Rosenberg was a leading Nazi ideologue and politician who played a central role in formulating and promoting the regime’s racist and antisemitic doctrines.
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E.
David Holloway
David Holloway is a literary figure best known for serving on the distinguished jury that selected the Booker of Bookers award.
- 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 Irving Target entity description: David Irving is the son of American novelist Clifford Irving, who was known for his controversial literary hoaxes.
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A.
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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B.
Norman Finkelstein
Norman Finkelstein is an American political scientist, author, and commentator known for his controversial critiques of Israeli policy and the politics surrounding the Holocaust.
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C.
Deborah E. Lipstadt
Deborah E. Lipstadt is an American historian and scholar renowned for her work on Holocaust studies and the fight against Holocaust denial.
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D.
Alfred Rosenberg
Alfred Rosenberg was a leading Nazi ideologue and politician who played a central role in formulating and promoting the regime’s racist and antisemitic doctrines.
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E.
David Holloway
David Holloway is a literary figure best known for serving on the distinguished jury that selected the Booker of Bookers award.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| father | Clifford Irving ⓘ |
| notableFor | literary hoaxes ⓘ |
| occupation | novelist ⓘ |
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 Irving Description of subject: David Irving is the son of American novelist Clifford Irving, who was known for his controversial literary hoaxes.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.