Alastair Reid
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Alastair Reid was a Scottish poet, essayist, and renowned translator, best known for bringing the works of Latin American writers like Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda to English-speaking audiences.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alastair Reid canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6827638 — 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: Alastair Reid Context triple: [Ficciones, translator, Alastair Reid]
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A.
Alastair Redfern
Alastair Redfern is an Anglican bishop and theologian who has served in senior roles within the Church of England, including as Bishop of Woolwich and later Bishop of Derby.
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B.
Alastair Stewart
Alastair Stewart is a British journalist and long-serving television news presenter best known for his work with ITN and ITV News.
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C.
Alastair Kerr
Alastair Kerr is a historian and author known for his works on Scottish history and biography.
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D.
Nick Laird
Nick Laird is a Northern Irish poet, novelist, and lawyer known for his acclaimed poetry collections and fiction, as well as his marriage to writer Zadie Smith.
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E.
Alistair Hennessey
Alistair Hennessey is a suave, competitive oceanographer and rival of Steve Zissou in Wes Anderson’s film "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou."
- 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: Alastair Reid Target entity description: Alastair Reid was a Scottish poet, essayist, and renowned translator, best known for bringing the works of Latin American writers like Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda to English-speaking audiences.
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A.
Alastair Redfern
Alastair Redfern is an Anglican bishop and theologian who has served in senior roles within the Church of England, including as Bishop of Woolwich and later Bishop of Derby.
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B.
Alastair Stewart
Alastair Stewart is a British journalist and long-serving television news presenter best known for his work with ITN and ITV News.
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C.
Alastair Kerr
Alastair Kerr is a historian and author known for his works on Scottish history and biography.
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D.
Nick Laird
Nick Laird is a Northern Irish poet, novelist, and lawyer known for his acclaimed poetry collections and fiction, as well as his marriage to writer Zadie Smith.
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E.
Alistair Hennessey
Alistair Hennessey is a suave, competitive oceanographer and rival of Steve Zissou in Wes Anderson’s film "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish writer
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essayist ⓘ human ⓘ poet ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Reid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Latin American literature
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literary translation ⓘ |
| genre |
essay
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poetry ⓘ |
| givenName | Alastair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
bringing Jorge Luis Borges to English-speaking audiences
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bringing Pablo Neruda to English-speaking audiences ⓘ translating Latin American literature into English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Alastair Reid NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableWork |
English translations of works by Jorge Luis Borges
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English translations of works by Pablo Neruda ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
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poet ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| translatedAuthor |
Jorge Luis Borges
NERFINISHED
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Pablo Neruda NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| translatedFromLanguage | Spanish ⓘ |
| translatedIntoLanguage | English ⓘ |
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: Alastair Reid Description of subject: Alastair Reid was a Scottish poet, essayist, and renowned translator, best known for bringing the works of Latin American writers like Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda to English-speaking audiences.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.