Val McDermid
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Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer renowned for her psychological thrillers and influential contributions to contemporary crime fiction.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Val McDermid canonical | 9 |
| Valerie McDermid | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4888315 — 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: Val McDermid Context triple: [St Hugh’s College, Oxford, hasAlumnus, Val McDermid]
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A.
Moira Harris
Moira Harris is an American actress known for her film, television, and stage work, and for her long-time marriage to actor and director Gary Sinise.
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B.
Lisa Gardner
Lisa Gardner is an American author best known for her bestselling crime and psychological thriller novels, including the Detective D.D. Warren and FBI Profiler series.
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C.
Paula Hawkins
Paula Hawkins is a British author best known for her psychological thriller novel "The Girl on the Train," which was adapted into the 2016 film of the same name.
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D.
Ellis Peters
Ellis Peters was the pen name of English writer Edith Pargeter, best known for her historical mystery novels featuring Brother Cadfael.
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E.
Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell is an American crime writer best known for her bestselling Kay Scarpetta series of forensic thrillers.
- 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: Val McDermid Target entity description: Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer renowned for her psychological thrillers and influential contributions to contemporary crime fiction.
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A.
Moira Harris
Moira Harris is an American actress known for her film, television, and stage work, and for her long-time marriage to actor and director Gary Sinise.
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B.
Lisa Gardner
Lisa Gardner is an American author best known for her bestselling crime and psychological thriller novels, including the Detective D.D. Warren and FBI Profiler series.
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C.
Paula Hawkins
Paula Hawkins is a British author best known for her psychological thriller novel "The Girl on the Train," which was adapted into the 2016 film of the same name.
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D.
Ellis Peters
Ellis Peters was the pen name of English writer Edith Pargeter, best known for her historical mystery novels featuring Brother Cadfael.
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E.
Patricia Cornwell
Patricia Cornwell is an American crime writer best known for her bestselling Kay Scarpetta series of forensic thrillers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Val McDermid Description of subject: Val McDermid is a Scottish crime writer renowned for her psychological thrillers and influential contributions to contemporary crime fiction.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Val McDermid