Mark Haddon
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children's novel
children's writer
human
novel
novelist
playwright
poet
poetry collection
screenwriter
stage play
Mark Haddon is a British author best known for his award-winning novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," which has been widely acclaimed and adapted for stage and screen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mark Haddon canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3051602 — 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: Mark Haddon Context triple: [The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Broadway production), authorOfSourceWork, Mark Haddon]
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A.
Mitchell Burgess
Mitchell Burgess is an American television writer and producer best known for his work on the acclaimed HBO series *The Sopranos*.
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B.
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers is an American author, editor, and publisher known for works like "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" and for founding the independent publishing house McSweeney’s and the literacy nonprofit 826 Valencia.
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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.
Ed Reiss
Ed Reiss is a central character in Harvey Fierstein’s "Torch Song Trilogy," depicted as a conflicted bisexual man whose turbulent relationship with the protagonist explores themes of identity, love, and societal expectations.
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E.
David Mitchell
David Mitchell is a British novelist best known for his genre-blending, intricately structured works such as "Cloud Atlas" and "The Bone Clocks."
- 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: Mark Haddon Target entity description: Mark Haddon is a British author best known for his award-winning novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," which has been widely acclaimed and adapted for stage and screen.
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A.
Mitchell Burgess
Mitchell Burgess is an American television writer and producer best known for his work on the acclaimed HBO series *The Sopranos*.
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B.
Dave Eggers
Dave Eggers is an American author, editor, and publisher known for works like "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" and for founding the independent publishing house McSweeney’s and the literacy nonprofit 826 Valencia.
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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.
Ed Reiss
Ed Reiss is a central character in Harvey Fierstein’s "Torch Song Trilogy," depicted as a conflicted bisexual man whose turbulent relationship with the protagonist explores themes of identity, love, and societal expectations.
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E.
David Mitchell
David Mitchell is a British novelist best known for his genre-blending, intricately structured works such as "Cloud Atlas" and "The Bone Clocks."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
children's novel
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children's writer ⓘ human ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novel ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ poet ⓘ poetry collection ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ stage play ⓘ |
| author | Mark Haddon self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Guardian Children's Fiction Prize
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Whitbread Book of the Year ⓘ |
| basedOn |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (novel)
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surface form:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Haddon ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
children's literature
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fiction writing ⓘ literature ⓘ |
| genre |
mystery fiction
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young adult fiction ⓘ |
| givenName | Mark ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Broadway production)
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surface form:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (play)
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| hasFilmOrTVAdaptation | screen adaptations based on the novel ⓘ |
| hasWrittenGenre |
adult fiction
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children's fiction ⓘ poetry ⓘ screenplays ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Mark Haddon self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | author of the award-winning novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Spot of Bother
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Boom! ⓘ The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (novel) ⓘ
surface form:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
The Red House ⓘ The Talking Horse and the Sad Girl and the Village Under the Sea ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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children's writer ⓘ novelist ⓘ playwright ⓘ poet ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ |
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: Mark Haddon Description of subject: Mark Haddon is a British author best known for his award-winning novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," which has been widely acclaimed and adapted for stage and screen.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
subject surface form:
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time