Alexander Masters
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Alexander Masters is a British author and screenwriter best known for his biographical work "Stuart: A Life Backwards," which chronicles the life of a homeless man in Cambridge.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alexander Masters canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10469634 — 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: Alexander Masters Context triple: [Stuart: A Life Backwards, basedOnAuthor, Alexander Masters]
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A.
Anthony Masters
Anthony Masters was a British production designer and art director known for his work on major films including "Dune" (1984) and "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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B.
Lawrence Crawford
Lawrence Crawford was a 17th-century Scottish soldier of fortune who served as a major-general in the Parliamentarian army during the English Civil War.
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C.
Steven Masters
Steven Masters is a video game designer best known for his work on the action-adventure title Assassin's Creed III.
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D.
David Soward
David Soward is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cosmetics brand Urban Decay, which helped popularize edgy, alternative makeup in the 1990s.
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E.
Alan Fairford
Alan Fairford is a conscientious young Scottish lawyer who serves as one of the central protagonists in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Redgauntlet."
- 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: Alexander Masters Target entity description: Alexander Masters is a British author and screenwriter best known for his biographical work "Stuart: A Life Backwards," which chronicles the life of a homeless man in Cambridge.
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A.
Anthony Masters
Anthony Masters was a British production designer and art director known for his work on major films including "Dune" (1984) and "2001: A Space Odyssey."
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B.
Lawrence Crawford
Lawrence Crawford was a 17th-century Scottish soldier of fortune who served as a major-general in the Parliamentarian army during the English Civil War.
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C.
Steven Masters
Steven Masters is a video game designer best known for his work on the action-adventure title Assassin's Creed III.
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D.
David Soward
David Soward is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cosmetics brand Urban Decay, which helped popularize edgy, alternative makeup in the 1990s.
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E.
Alan Fairford
Alan Fairford is a conscientious young Scottish lawyer who serves as one of the central protagonists in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Redgauntlet."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
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human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television film ⓘ |
| author |
Alexander Masters
NERFINISHED
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Alexander Masters NERFINISHED ⓘ Alexander Masters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Guardian First Book Award
NERFINISHED
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Hawthornden Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Stuart: A Life Backwards
NERFINISHED
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Stuart: A Life Backwards (television film) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
King’s College, Cambridge
NERFINISHED
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University of Sussex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfStudy |
history and philosophy of science
ⓘ
mathematics ⓘ physics ⓘ |
| genre |
biography
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biography ⓘ biography ⓘ memoir ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Simon P. Norton
NERFINISHED
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Stuart Shorter NERFINISHED ⓘ homelessness ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| nominatedFor | Samuel Johnson Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
biographical writing about marginalized individuals
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portrayals of homelessness in Cambridge ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Life Discarded
NERFINISHED
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Stuart: A Life Backwards NERFINISHED ⓘ The Genius in My Basement NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
biographer
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screenwriter ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| screenwriter | Alexander Masters NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote |
A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip
NERFINISHED
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Gary’s Friend: The World’s Worst Cat NERFINISHED ⓘ Stuart: A Life Backwards NERFINISHED ⓘ The Genius in My Basement: The Biography of a Happy Man 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: Alexander Masters Description of subject: Alexander Masters is a British author and screenwriter best known for his biographical work "Stuart: A Life Backwards," which chronicles the life of a homeless man in Cambridge.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.