Sheila Burnford
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Sheila Burnford was a British-born Canadian author best known for writing the classic animal adventure novel "The Incredible Journey."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sheila Burnford canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14843287 — 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: Sheila Burnford Context triple: [The Incredible Journey, authorOfSourceMaterial, Sheila Burnford]
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A.
Doreen Shepherd
Doreen Shepherd is best known as the wife of acclaimed English actor Frank Finlay.
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B.
Sandy Furness
Sandy Furness is a powerful media and entertainment mogul in the TV series "Succession," known as a long-time business rival and adversary of Logan Roy.
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C.
Sheila Buckley
Sheila Buckley is best known as the former secretary and later wife of British Labour MP John Stonehouse, who gained notoriety for faking his own death in the 1970s.
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D.
Doreen Brett
Doreen Brett was the wife of British comedian and actor Norman Wisdom.
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E.
Carol Aird
Carol Aird is the elegant, enigmatic older woman at the center of Patricia Highsmith’s novel and the film "Carol," whose forbidden romance with a younger woman drives the story’s emotional core.
- 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: Sheila Burnford Target entity description: Sheila Burnford was a British-born Canadian author best known for writing the classic animal adventure novel "The Incredible Journey."
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A.
Doreen Shepherd
Doreen Shepherd is best known as the wife of acclaimed English actor Frank Finlay.
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B.
Sandy Furness
Sandy Furness is a powerful media and entertainment mogul in the TV series "Succession," known as a long-time business rival and adversary of Logan Roy.
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C.
Sheila Buckley
Sheila Buckley is best known as the former secretary and later wife of British Labour MP John Stonehouse, who gained notoriety for faking his own death in the 1970s.
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D.
Doreen Brett
Doreen Brett was the wife of British comedian and actor Norman Wisdom.
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E.
Carol Aird
Carol Aird is the elegant, enigmatic older woman at the center of Patricia Highsmith’s novel and the film "Carol," whose forbidden romance with a younger woman drives the story’s emotional core.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.