Peter Dickinson
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Peter Dickinson was a British author best known for his innovative and award-winning children's and young adult fantasy and detective novels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Peter Dickinson canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6051058 — 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: Peter Dickinson Context triple: [Dickinson, hasNotableBearer, Peter Dickinson]
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A.
Rick Dickinson
Rick Dickinson was a British industrial designer best known for creating the iconic case designs of Sinclair home computers such as the ZX Spectrum.
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B.
Peter Blaker
Peter Blaker was a British Conservative politician who served in several ministerial roles, particularly in defense and foreign affairs, during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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C.
Charles Siddall
Charles Siddall was a family member of the Pre-Raphaelite-associated artist and poet Elizabeth Siddal, belonging to the same Victorian-era Siddall/Siddall family circle.
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D.
Andrew Darwin
Andrew Darwin is an individual notable for bearing the Darwin surname, historically associated with the famous naturalist Charles Darwin.
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E.
David Whittaker
David Whittaker is a British video game composer and programmer known for his prolific work on 8-bit and 16-bit home computer game soundtracks in the 1980s and 1990s.
- 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: Peter Dickinson Target entity description: Peter Dickinson was a British author best known for his innovative and award-winning children's and young adult fantasy and detective novels.
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A.
Rick Dickinson
Rick Dickinson was a British industrial designer best known for creating the iconic case designs of Sinclair home computers such as the ZX Spectrum.
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B.
Peter Blaker
Peter Blaker was a British Conservative politician who served in several ministerial roles, particularly in defense and foreign affairs, during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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C.
Charles Siddall
Charles Siddall was a family member of the Pre-Raphaelite-associated artist and poet Elizabeth Siddal, belonging to the same Victorian-era Siddall/Siddall family circle.
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D.
Andrew Darwin
Andrew Darwin is an individual notable for bearing the Darwin surname, historically associated with the famous naturalist Charles Darwin.
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E.
David Whittaker
David Whittaker is a British video game composer and programmer known for his prolific work on 8-bit and 16-bit home computer game soundtracks in the 1980s and 1990s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
children's writer
ⓘ
human ⓘ novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Carnegie Medal in Literature
NERFINISHED
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Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger NERFINISHED ⓘ Guardian Children's Fiction Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
|
| dateOfBirth | 1927-12-16 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2015-12-16 ⓘ |
| familyName | Dickinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
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crime fiction ⓘ detective fiction ⓘ fantasy literature ⓘ young adult fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Peter ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | modern children's fantasy ⓘ |
| name | Peter Dickinson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
Known for innovative children's and young adult fantasy and detective novels
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Won the Carnegie Medal twice in successive years ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Robin McKinley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Pride of Heroes
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
City of Gold and Other Stories from the Old Testament NERFINISHED ⓘ Eva NERFINISHED ⓘ Heartsease NERFINISHED ⓘ King and Joker NERFINISHED ⓘ One Foot in the Grave NERFINISHED ⓘ Sleep and His Brother NERFINISHED ⓘ The Blue Hawk NERFINISHED ⓘ The Changes Trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ The Devil's Children NERFINISHED ⓘ The Glass-Sided Ants' Nest NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lively Dead NERFINISHED ⓘ The Old English Peep Show NERFINISHED ⓘ The Sinful Stones NERFINISHED ⓘ The Weathermonger NERFINISHED ⓘ Tulku NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
children's writer
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Livingstone
NERFINISHED
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Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia NERFINISHED ⓘ Northern Rhodesia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Winchester
NERFINISHED
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Winchester, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Robin McKinley 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: Peter Dickinson Description of subject: Peter Dickinson was a British author best known for his innovative and award-winning children's and young adult fantasy and detective novels.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.