M. John Harrison
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fantasy writer
horror writer
human
literary fiction writer
novelist
science fiction writer
short story writer
M. John Harrison is a British author renowned for his innovative and genre-defying science fiction, fantasy, and literary works such as the Viriconium series and "Light."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| M. John Harrison canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3589724 — 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: M. John Harrison Context triple: [Harrison, hasNotableBearer, M. John Harrison]
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A.
Ian McDonald
Ian McDonald is a British science fiction author known for his richly imagined, culturally diverse speculative novels such as "River of Gods" and "Brasyl."
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B.
Philip José Farmer
Philip José Farmer was an American science fiction and fantasy author known for his imaginative world-building, boundary-pushing themes, and influential series such as the Riverworld and World of Tiers sagas.
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C.
Philip Vian
Philip Vian was a distinguished British Royal Navy admiral known for his aggressive leadership in destroyer actions and key naval engagements during the Second World War.
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D.
David Urquhart
David Urquhart was a 19th-century Scottish diplomat, writer, and politician known for his advocacy of Turkish interests and his strong opposition to Russian expansion.
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E.
Philip May
Philip May is a British investment manager best known as the husband of former UK Prime Minister Theresa May.
- 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: M. John Harrison Target entity description: M. John Harrison is a British author renowned for his innovative and genre-defying science fiction, fantasy, and literary works such as the Viriconium series and "Light."
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A.
Ian McDonald
Ian McDonald is a British science fiction author known for his richly imagined, culturally diverse speculative novels such as "River of Gods" and "Brasyl."
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B.
Philip José Farmer
Philip José Farmer was an American science fiction and fantasy author known for his imaginative world-building, boundary-pushing themes, and influential series such as the Riverworld and World of Tiers sagas.
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C.
Philip Vian
Philip Vian was a distinguished British Royal Navy admiral known for his aggressive leadership in destroyer actions and key naval engagements during the Second World War.
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D.
David Urquhart
David Urquhart was a 19th-century Scottish diplomat, writer, and politician known for his advocacy of Turkish interests and his strong opposition to Russian expansion.
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E.
Philip May
Philip May is a British investment manager best known as the husband of former UK Prime Minister Theresa May.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
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: M. John Harrison Description of subject: M. John Harrison is a British author renowned for his innovative and genre-defying science fiction, fantasy, and literary works such as the Viriconium series and "Light."
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.