David Harsent
E454900
David Harsent is a British poet and librettist known for his dark, formally inventive work and multiple major poetry awards.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Harsent canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4569498 — 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: David Harsent Context triple: [T. S. Eliot Prize, hasAwarded, David Harsent]
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A.
Douglas Dunn
Douglas Dunn is a Scottish poet, editor, and academic known for his reflective verse and significant contributions to contemporary British poetry.
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B.
George Szirtes
George Szirtes is a Hungarian-born British poet, translator, and editor renowned for his lyrical verse and influential translations of Hungarian literature into English.
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C.
John Burnside
John Burnside is a Scottish poet, novelist, and essayist known for his lyrical explorations of nature, memory, and the uncanny in contemporary literature.
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D.
Tony Harrison
Tony Harrison is an English poet and playwright renowned for his politically charged verse and innovative use of vernacular language.
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E.
Robert Hartnett
Robert Hartnett is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Hartnett.
- 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: David Harsent Target entity description: David Harsent is a British poet and librettist known for his dark, formally inventive work and multiple major poetry awards.
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A.
Douglas Dunn
Douglas Dunn is a Scottish poet, editor, and academic known for his reflective verse and significant contributions to contemporary British poetry.
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B.
George Szirtes
George Szirtes is a Hungarian-born British poet, translator, and editor renowned for his lyrical verse and influential translations of Hungarian literature into English.
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C.
John Burnside
John Burnside is a Scottish poet, novelist, and essayist known for his lyrical explorations of nature, memory, and the uncanny in contemporary literature.
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D.
Tony Harrison
Tony Harrison is an English poet and playwright renowned for his politically charged verse and innovative use of vernacular language.
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E.
Robert Hartnett
Robert Hartnett is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Hartnett.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: David Harsent Description of subject: David Harsent is a British poet and librettist known for his dark, formally inventive work and multiple major poetry awards.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.