Iain Reid
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Iain Reid is a Canadian author best known for his psychologically suspenseful novels such as "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" and "Foe."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Iain Reid canonical | 15 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T640587 — 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: Iain Reid Context triple: [Reid, hasNotableBearer, Iain Reid]
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A.
Campbell McInnes
Campbell McInnes is a film producer best known for his work on the political drama "Chappaquiddick," which explores the 1969 incident involving Senator Ted Kennedy.
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B.
Alan Webber
Alan Webber is an American politician and former business magazine co-founder who serves as the mayor of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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C.
Gregory David Roberts
Gregory David Roberts is an Australian author and former fugitive best known for his epic novel "Shantaram," inspired by his own experiences in the Mumbai underworld.
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D.
Hamish Hamilton
Hamish Hamilton is a renowned British publishing imprint known for literary fiction and non-fiction by prominent international authors.
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E.
Philip Hensher
Philip Hensher is a British novelist, critic, and academic known for works such as "The Northern Clemency" and his contributions to contemporary English literature.
- 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: Iain Reid Target entity description: Iain Reid is a Canadian author best known for his psychologically suspenseful novels such as "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" and "Foe."
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A.
Campbell McInnes
Campbell McInnes is a film producer best known for his work on the political drama "Chappaquiddick," which explores the 1969 incident involving Senator Ted Kennedy.
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B.
Alan Webber
Alan Webber is an American politician and former business magazine co-founder who serves as the mayor of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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C.
Gregory David Roberts
Gregory David Roberts is an Australian author and former fugitive best known for his epic novel "Shantaram," inspired by his own experiences in the Mumbai underworld.
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D.
Hamish Hamilton
Hamish Hamilton is a renowned British publishing imprint known for literary fiction and non-fiction by prominent international authors.
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E.
Philip Hensher
Philip Hensher is a British novelist, critic, and academic known for works such as "The Northern Clemency" and his contributions to contemporary English literature.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (37)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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human ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| author |
Iain Reid
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Iain Reid ⓘ Iain Reid ⓘ Iain Reid ⓘ Iain Reid ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| genre |
psychological fiction
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psychological thriller ⓘ psychological thriller ⓘ psychological thriller ⓘ suspense fiction ⓘ |
| hasWritten |
Foe
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things ⓘ One Bird's Choice ⓘ The Truth About Luck ⓘ We Spread ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | Canadian ⓘ |
| notableFor | psychologically suspenseful novels ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Foe
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things ⓘ One Bird's Choice ⓘ The Truth About Luck ⓘ We Spread ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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novelist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Canada ⓘ |
| writingStyle | psychological suspense ⓘ |
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: Iain Reid Description of subject: Iain Reid is a Canadian author best known for his psychologically suspenseful novels such as "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" and "Foe."
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.