Philip Gross
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Philip Gross is a British poet, novelist, and academic known for his reflective, formally inventive poetry and winner of major literary honors including the T. S. Eliot Prize.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Philip Gross canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4569489 — 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: Philip Gross Context triple: [T. S. Eliot Prize, hasAwarded, Philip Gross]
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A.
David M. Brown
David M. Brown was a U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who served as a mission specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 mission.
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B.
Christopher B. Roberts
Christopher B. Roberts is an American academic and engineer who serves as the president of Auburn University.
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C.
Dan Grossman
Dan Grossman is a computer scientist and professor known for his work in programming languages and software engineering.
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D.
Michael T. Sauer
Michael T. Sauer was an American judge best known for presiding over high-profile criminal cases in Los Angeles County.
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E.
Stephen Trott
Stephen Trott is an American lawyer and former federal official who later served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
- 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: Philip Gross Target entity description: Philip Gross is a British poet, novelist, and academic known for his reflective, formally inventive poetry and winner of major literary honors including the T. S. Eliot Prize.
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A.
David M. Brown
David M. Brown was a U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who served as a mission specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 mission.
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B.
Christopher B. Roberts
Christopher B. Roberts is an American academic and engineer who serves as the president of Auburn University.
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C.
Dan Grossman
Dan Grossman is a computer scientist and professor known for his work in programming languages and software engineering.
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D.
Michael T. Sauer
Michael T. Sauer was an American judge best known for presiding over high-profile criminal cases in Los Angeles County.
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E.
Stephen Trott
Stephen Trott is an American lawyer and former federal official who later served as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
ⓘ
human ⓘ novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
ⓘ
21st century ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
National Poetry Competition
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T. S. Eliot Prize ⓘ Wales Book of the Year ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1952-07-29 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Sussex ⓘ |
| employer |
University of Glamorgan
ⓘ
linked to:
University of South Wales
University of South Wales ⓘ |
| familyName | Gross ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
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novel ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| givenName | Philip ⓘ |
| hasWrittenForm |
adult poetry
ⓘ
children's poetry ⓘ young adult fiction ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | contemporary poetry ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Changes of Address
ⓘ
Deep Field ⓘ I.D. ⓘ The Ice Factory ⓘ The Wasting Game ⓘ The Water Table ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Cornwall
ⓘ
Delabole ⓘ England ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Professor of Creative Writing ⓘ |
| residence | Wales ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
formally inventive
ⓘ
reflective ⓘ |
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: Philip Gross Description of subject: Philip Gross is a British poet, novelist, and academic known for his reflective, formally inventive poetry and winner of major literary honors including the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.