Graham Swift
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Graham Swift is a British novelist known for his psychologically rich, intricately structured works such as "Waterland" and "Last Orders," which explore memory, history, and personal identity.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Graham Swift canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7703374 — 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: Graham Swift Context triple: [Swift, hasNotableBearer, Graham Swift]
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A.
David Lodge
David Lodge was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television comedies.
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B.
Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe is a British novelist and satirist best known for works such as "What a Carve Up!" and "The Rotters' Club," which often blend political commentary with dark humor.
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C.
Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes is a distinguished contemporary English novelist and essayist known for his inventive narratives and exploration of memory, history, and identity.
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D.
Ali Smith
Ali Smith is a Scottish author acclaimed for her inventive, genre-blurring novels and short stories, including the seasonal quartet that begins with "Autumn."
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E.
Ian Byatt
Ian Byatt is a British economist and former water industry regulator, best known for serving as the first Director General of Ofwat, the economic regulator of the water industry in England and Wales.
- 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: Graham Swift Target entity description: Graham Swift is a British novelist known for his psychologically rich, intricately structured works such as "Waterland" and "Last Orders," which explore memory, history, and personal identity.
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A.
David Lodge
David Lodge was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in mid-20th-century film and television comedies.
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B.
Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe is a British novelist and satirist best known for works such as "What a Carve Up!" and "The Rotters' Club," which often blend political commentary with dark humor.
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C.
Julian Barnes
Julian Barnes is a distinguished contemporary English novelist and essayist known for his inventive narratives and exploration of memory, history, and identity.
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D.
Ali Smith
Ali Smith is a Scottish author acclaimed for her inventive, genre-blurring novels and short stories, including the seasonal quartet that begins with "Autumn."
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E.
Ian Byatt
Ian Byatt is a British economist and former water industry regulator, best known for serving as the first Director General of Ofwat, the economic regulator of the water industry in England and Wales.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British writer
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human ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| author |
Graham Swift
NERFINISHED
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Graham Swift NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Booker Prize
NERFINISHED
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Booker Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Swift NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
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historical fiction ⓘ literary fiction ⓘ psychological fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Graham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
history
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memory ⓘ personal identity ⓘ |
| mainThemeInWorks |
history
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memory ⓘ personal identity ⓘ |
| name | Graham Swift NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| narrativeCharacteristic |
intricate structure
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psychological depth ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ever After
NERFINISHED
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Here We Are NERFINISHED ⓘ Last Orders NERFINISHED ⓘ Learning to Swim and Other Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ Mothering Sunday NERFINISHED ⓘ Out of This World NERFINISHED ⓘ Shuttlecock NERFINISHED ⓘ The Light of Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Tomorrow NERFINISHED ⓘ Waterland NERFINISHED ⓘ Wish You Were Here NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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short story writer ⓘ |
| work |
Ever After
NERFINISHED
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Here We Are NERFINISHED ⓘ Last Orders NERFINISHED ⓘ Learning to Swim and Other Stories NERFINISHED ⓘ Mothering Sunday NERFINISHED ⓘ Out of This World NERFINISHED ⓘ Shuttlecock NERFINISHED ⓘ The Light of Day NERFINISHED ⓘ Tomorrow NERFINISHED ⓘ Waterland NERFINISHED ⓘ Wish You Were Here NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Graham Swift Description of subject: Graham Swift is a British novelist known for his psychologically rich, intricately structured works such as "Waterland" and "Last Orders," which explore memory, history, and personal identity.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.