Cressida Cowell
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Cressida Cowell is a British children's author and illustrator best known for her "How to Train Your Dragon" book series, which inspired the popular animated film franchise.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cressida Cowell canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5111511 — 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: Cressida Cowell Context triple: [Whitbread Children's Book of the Year, notableWinner, Cressida Cowell]
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A.
Susanna Bennett
Susanna Bennett was the wife of Irish Gothic writer Sheridan Le Fanu, known primarily through her marriage to the influential Victorian author.
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B.
Daveigh Chase
Daveigh Chase is an American actress and voice actress best known for voicing Lilo Pelekai in Disney's "Lilo & Stitch" and for her role as Samara in the horror film "The Ring."
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C.
Gail Carriger
Gail Carriger is a bestselling American author known for her humorous steampunk and paranormal romance novels, particularly the Parasol Protectorate series.
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D.
T. Kingfisher
T. Kingfisher is the pen name of American author Ursula Vernon, known for her acclaimed fantasy and horror fiction for both adults and young adults.
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E.
Nancy Springer
Nancy Springer is an American author best known for her mystery novels, including the Enola Holmes series that reimagines Sherlock Holmes’s younger sister as a teenage detective.
- 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: Cressida Cowell Target entity description: Cressida Cowell is a British children's author and illustrator best known for her "How to Train Your Dragon" book series, which inspired the popular animated film franchise.
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A.
Susanna Bennett
Susanna Bennett was the wife of Irish Gothic writer Sheridan Le Fanu, known primarily through her marriage to the influential Victorian author.
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B.
Daveigh Chase
Daveigh Chase is an American actress and voice actress best known for voicing Lilo Pelekai in Disney's "Lilo & Stitch" and for her role as Samara in the horror film "The Ring."
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C.
Gail Carriger
Gail Carriger is a bestselling American author known for her humorous steampunk and paranormal romance novels, particularly the Parasol Protectorate series.
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D.
T. Kingfisher
T. Kingfisher is the pen name of American author Ursula Vernon, known for her acclaimed fantasy and horror fiction for both adults and young adults.
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E.
Nancy Springer
Nancy Springer is an American author best known for her mystery novels, including the Enola Holmes series that reimagines Sherlock Holmes’s younger sister as a teenage detective.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
children's writer
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human ⓘ illustrator ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Blue Peter Book Award
NERFINISHED
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Nestlé Smarties Book Prize (shortlisted/awarded for work) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Neal Layton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Brighton Polytechnic
NERFINISHED
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University of Oxford ⓘ
surface form:
Oxford University
St Martin's School of Art NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | BBC (as a writer, past work) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Cowell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
children's fiction
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illustration ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
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fantasy literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Cressida NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasPart |
How to Train Your Dragon: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons
NERFINISHED
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How to Train Your Dragon: How to Be a Pirate NERFINISHED ⓘ How to Train Your Dragon: How to Betray a Dragon's Hero NERFINISHED ⓘ How to Train Your Dragon: How to Break a Dragon's Heart NERFINISHED ⓘ How to Train Your Dragon: How to Cheat a Dragon's Curse NERFINISHED ⓘ How to Train Your Dragon: How to Fight a Dragon's Fury NERFINISHED ⓘ How to Train Your Dragon: How to Ride a Dragon's Storm NERFINISHED ⓘ How to Train Your Dragon: How to Seize a Dragon's Jewel NERFINISHED ⓘ How to Train Your Dragon: How to Speak Dragonese NERFINISHED ⓘ How to Train Your Dragon: How to Steal a Dragon's Sword NERFINISHED ⓘ How to Train Your Dragon: How to Twist a Dragon's Tale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasWebsite | https://www.cressidacowell.co.uk/ ⓘ |
| inspiredWork |
How to Train Your Dragon (2010 film)
NERFINISHED
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How to Train Your Dragon film franchise NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Cressida Cowell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Emily Brown series
NERFINISHED
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How to Train Your Dragon NERFINISHED ⓘ How to Train Your Dragon book series NERFINISHED ⓘ That Rabbit Belongs to Emily Brown NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wizards of Once NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wizards of Once: Knock Three Times NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wizards of Once: Never and Forever NERFINISHED ⓘ The Wizards of Once: Twice Magic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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children's author ⓘ illustrator ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Children's Laureate (United Kingdom) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Cressida Cowell Description of subject: Cressida Cowell is a British children's author and illustrator best known for her "How to Train Your Dragon" book series, which inspired the popular animated film franchise.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.