Michael Innes
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Michael Innes was the pen name of Scottish author J.I.M. Stewart, best known for his erudite and witty detective novels featuring Inspector John Appleby.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Innes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5230582 — 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: Michael Innes Context triple: [Collins Crime Club, notableAuthorPublished, Michael Innes]
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A.
Neville Barr
Neville Barr is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Barr, though specific widely known public achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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B.
John Bayley
John Bayley was a British literary critic and memoirist best known for his writings about his wife, novelist Iris Murdoch, and their life together.
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C.
Robert Fairthorne
Robert Fairthorne was a British information scientist and mathematician known for his influential work in documentation, information retrieval theory, and the early development of information science as a discipline.
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D.
Victor Canning
Victor Canning was a British novelist and thriller writer known for his suspenseful crime and adventure stories, several of which were adapted for film and television.
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E.
Geoffrey Streatfeild
Geoffrey Streatfeild is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "The Thick of It" and "Spooks."
- 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: Michael Innes Target entity description: Michael Innes was the pen name of Scottish author J.I.M. Stewart, best known for his erudite and witty detective novels featuring Inspector John Appleby.
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A.
Neville Barr
Neville Barr is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Barr, though specific widely known public achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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B.
John Bayley
John Bayley was a British literary critic and memoirist best known for his writings about his wife, novelist Iris Murdoch, and their life together.
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C.
Robert Fairthorne
Robert Fairthorne was a British information scientist and mathematician known for his influential work in documentation, information retrieval theory, and the early development of information science as a discipline.
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D.
Victor Canning
Victor Canning was a British novelist and thriller writer known for his suspenseful crime and adventure stories, several of which were adapted for film and television.
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E.
Geoffrey Streatfeild
Geoffrey Streatfeild is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and theatre, including roles in productions such as "The Thick of It" and "Spooks."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
crime fiction writer
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pen name ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
J. I. M. Stewart
NERFINISHED
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John Innes Mackintosh Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdCharacter | Inspector John Appleby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1906-09-30 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1994-11-12 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Oriel College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
Christ Church, Oxford
NERFINISHED
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Queen’s University Belfast NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Adelaide NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Leeds NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
crime fiction
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detective fiction ⓘ mystery fiction ⓘ |
| hasSeries | Inspector Appleby series NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Golden Age detective fiction NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableCharacter | Inspector John Appleby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Appleby and Honeybath
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Appleby’s End NERFINISHED ⓘ Death at the President’s Lodging NERFINISHED ⓘ From London Far NERFINISHED ⓘ Hamlet, Revenge! NERFINISHED ⓘ Lament for a Maker NERFINISHED ⓘ The Journeying Boy NERFINISHED ⓘ The Secret Vanguard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
crime fiction writer
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detective fiction writer ⓘ novelist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| periodActive | 20th century ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| realName |
J. I. M. Stewart
NERFINISHED
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John Innes Mackintosh Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
erudite
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witty ⓘ |
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: Michael Innes Description of subject: Michael Innes was the pen name of Scottish author J.I.M. Stewart, best known for his erudite and witty detective novels featuring Inspector John Appleby.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.