Alan Sillitoe
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Alan Sillitoe was an English writer best known for his gritty, working-class novels and screenplays such as "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner," which became key works of the British New Wave.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alan Sillitoe canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5071986 — 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.
Target entity: Alan Sillitoe Context triple: [British New Wave, notableScreenwriter, Alan Sillitoe]
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Purney Sillitoe
Purney Sillitoe was a landowner for whom the English country house Pell Wall Hall was commissioned in the early 19th century.
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B.
John Braine
John Braine was a British novelist best known as one of the leading "Angry Young Men" writers of the 1950s, particularly for his debut novel "Room at the Top."
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C.
Edgar Box
Edgar Box is the crime-fiction pseudonym under which American writer Gore Vidal published a series of mystery novels in the 1950s.
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D.
Lindsay Anderson
Lindsay Anderson was a British film director and critic associated with the Free Cinema movement and known for influential works such as "If...." and "O Lucky Man!".
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E.
John Osborne
John Osborne was a prominent British playwright and screenwriter, best known for his groundbreaking play "Look Back in Anger" and his influential role in the "Angry Young Men" movement in postwar British theatre.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Alan Sillitoe Target entity description: Alan Sillitoe was an English writer best known for his gritty, working-class novels and screenplays such as "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner," which became key works of the British New Wave.
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A.
Purney Sillitoe
Purney Sillitoe was a landowner for whom the English country house Pell Wall Hall was commissioned in the early 19th century.
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B.
John Braine
John Braine was a British novelist best known as one of the leading "Angry Young Men" writers of the 1950s, particularly for his debut novel "Room at the Top."
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C.
Edgar Box
Edgar Box is the crime-fiction pseudonym under which American writer Gore Vidal published a series of mystery novels in the 1950s.
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D.
Lindsay Anderson
Lindsay Anderson was a British film director and critic associated with the Free Cinema movement and known for influential works such as "If...." and "O Lucky Man!".
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E.
John Osborne
John Osborne was a prominent British playwright and screenwriter, best known for his groundbreaking play "Look Back in Anger" and his influential role in the "Angry Young Men" movement in postwar British theatre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novelist ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Honorary degree from Nottingham Trent University ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1928-03-04 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2010-04-25 ⓘ |
| educatedIn | Nottingham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Sillitoe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatherOccupation | factory worker ⓘ |
| genre |
realist fiction
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working-class fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Alan ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (film)
NERFINISHED
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influenced | British New Wave cinema NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | depicting working-class life in Nottingham ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryService | Royal Air Force NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement |
British New Wave
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
kitchen sink realism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Alan Sillitoe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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screenwriter ⓘ short story writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Nottingham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| screenplayBy |
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (film)
NERFINISHED
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedIn | Second World War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Ruth Fainlight NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | poet ⓘ |
| wrote |
A Start in Life
NERFINISHED
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Key to the Door NERFINISHED ⓘ Saturday Night and Sunday Morning NERFINISHED ⓘ The Death of William Posters NERFINISHED ⓘ The General NERFINISHED ⓘ The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner NERFINISHED ⓘ The Ragman’s Daughter NERFINISHED ⓘ The Storyteller NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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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.
Subject: Alan Sillitoe Description of subject: Alan Sillitoe was an English writer best known for his gritty, working-class novels and screenplays such as "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner," which became key works of the British New Wave.
Referenced by (9)
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