Vikas Swarup
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Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and novelist best known for his debut novel "Q & A," which was adapted into the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Vikas Swarup canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2214982 — 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: Vikas Swarup Context triple: [Slumdog Millionaire, basedOnAuthor, Vikas Swarup]
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A.
Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian author renowned for his richly detailed novels about Parsi life and modern India, including the acclaimed "A Fine Balance."
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B.
Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai is an Indian author best known for her acclaimed novel "The Inheritance of Loss," which explores themes of globalization, migration, and identity.
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C.
Sudha Murty
Sudha Murty is an Indian author, philanthropist, and chairperson of the Infosys Foundation, known for her extensive social work and popular writings in English and Kannada.
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D.
U. R. Ananthamurthy
U. R. Ananthamurthy was a prominent Indian writer, critic, and public intellectual, widely recognized as a leading figure of modernist literature in the Kannada language.
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E.
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and activist best known for her Booker Prize–winning novel "The God of Small Things" and her outspoken political commentary on social and environmental justice.
- 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: Vikas Swarup Target entity description: Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and novelist best known for his debut novel "Q & A," which was adapted into the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire."
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A.
Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian author renowned for his richly detailed novels about Parsi life and modern India, including the acclaimed "A Fine Balance."
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B.
Kiran Desai
Kiran Desai is an Indian author best known for her acclaimed novel "The Inheritance of Loss," which explores themes of globalization, migration, and identity.
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C.
Sudha Murty
Sudha Murty is an Indian author, philanthropist, and chairperson of the Infosys Foundation, known for her extensive social work and popular writings in English and Kannada.
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D.
U. R. Ananthamurthy
U. R. Ananthamurthy was a prominent Indian writer, critic, and public intellectual, widely recognized as a leading figure of modernist literature in the Kannada language.
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E.
Arundhati Roy
Arundhati Roy is an Indian author and activist best known for her Booker Prize–winning novel "The God of Small Things" and her outspoken political commentary on social and environmental justice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Vikas Swarup Description of subject: Vikas Swarup is an Indian diplomat and novelist best known for his debut novel "Q & A," which was adapted into the Oscar-winning film "Slumdog Millionaire."
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Q & A
subject surface form:
Slumdog Millionaire