Malcolm Lowry
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Malcolm Lowry was a British novelist and poet best known for his modernist masterpiece "Under the Volcano," a tragic portrait of an alcoholic British consul in Mexico.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Malcolm Lowry canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4409273 — 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: Malcolm Lowry Context triple: [Lowry, hasNotableBearer, Malcolm Lowry]
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A.
David Herbert
David Herbert is a renowned American percussionist best known for his role as principal timpanist with major U.S. orchestras.
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B.
Richard Llewellyn
Richard Llewellyn was a Welsh novelist best known for his 1939 work "How Green Was My Valley," a classic depiction of life in a South Wales mining community.
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C.
Joseph Kessel
Joseph Kessel was a French novelist and journalist, known for his adventure and war-themed works that inspired numerous films and became classics of 20th-century French literature.
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D.
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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E.
Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin was a British travel writer and novelist renowned for his innovative, genre-blurring works such as "In Patagonia" and "The Songlines."
- 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: Malcolm Lowry Target entity description: Malcolm Lowry was a British novelist and poet best known for his modernist masterpiece "Under the Volcano," a tragic portrait of an alcoholic British consul in Mexico.
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A.
David Herbert
David Herbert is a renowned American percussionist best known for his role as principal timpanist with major U.S. orchestras.
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B.
Richard Llewellyn
Richard Llewellyn was a Welsh novelist best known for his 1939 work "How Green Was My Valley," a classic depiction of life in a South Wales mining community.
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C.
Joseph Kessel
Joseph Kessel was a French novelist and journalist, known for his adventure and war-themed works that inspired numerous films and became classics of 20th-century French literature.
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D.
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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E.
Bruce Chatwin
Bruce Chatwin was a British travel writer and novelist renowned for his innovative, genre-blurring works such as "In Patagonia" and "The Songlines."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| author | Malcolm Lowry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1909-07-28 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | New Brighton, Cheshire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath |
alcohol poisoning
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barbiturate overdose ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1957-06-26 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Ripe, East Sussex, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
St Catharine's College, Cambridge
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Leys School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
fiction
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modernist literature ⓘ modernist novel ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| hasSignificantPlace |
Mexico
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasThemeInWorks |
alcoholism
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existential despair ⓘ spiritual crisis ⓘ |
| influenced | postwar modernist writers ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Dante Alighieri
NERFINISHED
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Herman Melville NERFINISHED ⓘ James Joyce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Under the Volcano
NERFINISHED
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tragic portrayal of alcoholism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Geoffrey Firmin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | modernism ⓘ |
| name | Clarence Malcolm Lowry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Under the Volcano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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poet ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | St John the Baptist Churchyard, Ripe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1947 ⓘ |
| setting | Quauhnahuac, Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Jan Gabrial
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Margerie Bonner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid
NERFINISHED
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Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place NERFINISHED ⓘ Lunar Caustic NERFINISHED ⓘ Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry NERFINISHED ⓘ Ultramarine NERFINISHED ⓘ Under the Volcano NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Malcolm Lowry Description of subject: Malcolm Lowry was a British novelist and poet best known for his modernist masterpiece "Under the Volcano," a tragic portrait of an alcoholic British consul in Mexico.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.