Ken Norrish
E866530
Ken Norrish is an artist best known for designing the cover art of Michael Ondaatje’s novel *In the Skin of a Lion*.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ken Norrish canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10391576 — 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: Ken Norrish Context triple: [In the Skin of a Lion, coverArtist, Ken Norrish]
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A.
Ronald Norrish
Ronald Norrish was a British physical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical kinetics and photochemistry.
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B.
Alan Cowan
Alan Cowan is a tense, sharp-tongued New York lawyer and one of the four central parents in Roman Polanski’s film "Carnage," whose escalating argument drives the movie’s darkly comic conflict.
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C.
George Murray Smith
George Murray Smith was a prominent 19th-century British publisher known for founding influential literary periodicals and publishing major Victorian authors.
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D.
Fred Jowett
Fred Jowett was a British socialist politician and early Labour Party figure who served as MP for Bradford and helped shape the party’s formative policies and organization.
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E.
William Norrie
William Norrie was a Canadian politician who served as the long-time mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
- 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: Ken Norrish Target entity description: Ken Norrish is an artist best known for designing the cover art of Michael Ondaatje’s novel *In the Skin of a Lion*.
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A.
Ronald Norrish
Ronald Norrish was a British physical chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical kinetics and photochemistry.
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B.
Alan Cowan
Alan Cowan is a tense, sharp-tongued New York lawyer and one of the four central parents in Roman Polanski’s film "Carnage," whose escalating argument drives the movie’s darkly comic conflict.
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C.
George Murray Smith
George Murray Smith was a prominent 19th-century British publisher known for founding influential literary periodicals and publishing major Victorian authors.
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D.
Fred Jowett
Fred Jowett was a British socialist politician and early Labour Party figure who served as MP for Bradford and helped shape the party’s formative policies and organization.
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E.
William Norrie
William Norrie was a Canadian politician who served as the long-time mayor of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artist
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book cover art ⓘ |
| coverArtist | Ken Norrish ⓘ |
| designer | Ken Norrish ⓘ |
| knownFor | designing the cover art of Michael Ondaatje’s novel "In the Skin of a Lion" ⓘ |
| notableWork | cover art for Michael Ondaatje’s novel "In the Skin of a Lion" ⓘ |
| occupation | artist ⓘ |
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: Ken Norrish Description of subject: Ken Norrish is an artist best known for designing the cover art of Michael Ondaatje’s novel *In the Skin of a Lion*.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.