Danny Hornby
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Danny Hornby is one of the children of British novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Danny Hornby canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2240735 — 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: Danny Hornby Context triple: [Nick Hornby, hasChild, Danny Hornby]
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A.
David Mitchell
David Mitchell is a British novelist best known for his genre-blending, intricately structured works such as "Cloud Atlas" and "The Bone Clocks."
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B.
Simon Beaufoy
Simon Beaufoy is an Academy Award–winning British screenwriter known for films such as "Slumdog Millionaire," "The Full Monty," and "127 Hours."
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C.
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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D.
Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby is an English author, essayist, and screenwriter best known for his novels "High Fidelity," "About a Boy," and "Fever Pitch," many of which have been adapted into successful films.
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E.
Nicholas Beauman
Nicholas Beauman is a British editor and publisher known for championing and reissuing neglected literary works, particularly through the imprint Persephone Books.
- 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: Danny Hornby Target entity description: Danny Hornby is one of the children of British novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby.
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A.
David Mitchell
David Mitchell is a British novelist best known for his genre-blending, intricately structured works such as "Cloud Atlas" and "The Bone Clocks."
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B.
Simon Beaufoy
Simon Beaufoy is an Academy Award–winning British screenwriter known for films such as "Slumdog Millionaire," "The Full Monty," and "127 Hours."
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C.
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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D.
Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby is an English author, essayist, and screenwriter best known for his novels "High Fidelity," "About a Boy," and "Fever Pitch," many of which have been adapted into successful films.
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E.
Nicholas Beauman
Nicholas Beauman is a British editor and publisher known for championing and reissuing neglected literary works, particularly through the imprint Persephone Books.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| child | Danny Hornby self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| father | Nick Hornby ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
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: Danny Hornby Description of subject: Danny Hornby is one of the children of British novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Nick Hornby