David Pinner
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David Pinner is a British author and playwright best known for his 1967 novel "Ritual," which served as a major inspiration for the cult horror film "The Wicker Man" (1973).
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Pinner canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4625701 — 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 Pinner Context triple: [The Wicker Man (1973 film), authorOfSourceWork, David Pinner]
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A.
Brian Pippard
Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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B.
Dan Bunting
Dan Bunting is a video game developer best known for his leadership and design work on the Call of Duty series at Treyarch.
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C.
David Pegg
David Pegg was an English footballer who played as a left winger for Manchester United's famed "Busby Babes" before his life was tragically cut short in the Munich air disaster of 1958.
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D.
Chris Spedding
Chris Spedding is an English session guitarist and producer known for his versatile work across rock, pop, and jazz, collaborating with numerous prominent artists since the 1960s.
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E.
Graham Sharp
Graham Sharp is an American banjo player, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the bluegrass band Steep Canyon Rangers.
- 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 Pinner Target entity description: David Pinner is a British author and playwright best known for his 1967 novel "Ritual," which served as a major inspiration for the cult horror film "The Wicker Man" (1973).
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A.
Brian Pippard
Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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B.
Dan Bunting
Dan Bunting is a video game developer best known for his leadership and design work on the Call of Duty series at Treyarch.
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C.
David Pegg
David Pegg was an English footballer who played as a left winger for Manchester United's famed "Busby Babes" before his life was tragically cut short in the Munich air disaster of 1958.
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D.
Chris Spedding
Chris Spedding is an English session guitarist and producer known for his versatile work across rock, pop, and jazz, collaborating with numerous prominent artists since the 1960s.
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E.
Graham Sharp
Graham Sharp is an American banjo player, singer, and songwriter best known as a founding member of the bluegrass band Steep Canyon Rangers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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film ⓘ novel ⓘ person ⓘ playwright ⓘ |
| author | David Pinner ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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folk horror film ⓘ horror fiction ⓘ |
| influencedWork |
The Wicker Man
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linked to:
The Wicker Man (1973 film)
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| inspired |
The Wicker Man
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linked to:
The Wicker Man (1973 film)
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | writing the novel "Ritual" which inspired the film "The Wicker Man" ⓘ |
| notableWork | Ritual ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ |
| publicationDate |
1967
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1973 ⓘ |
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 Pinner Description of subject: David Pinner is a British author and playwright best known for his 1967 novel "Ritual," which served as a major inspiration for the cult horror film "The Wicker Man" (1973).
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
David Pinner