Andrew Motion
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Andrew Motion is a British poet, novelist, and biographer who served as the United Kingdom's Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Andrew Motion canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5310767 — 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: Andrew Motion Context triple: [Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, hasHolder, Andrew Motion]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
David Harsent
David Harsent is a British poet and librettist known for his dark, formally inventive work and multiple major poetry awards.
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D.
Edward Bishop
Edward Bishop was a 17th-century New England resident known primarily as the husband of Bridget Bishop, the first person executed during the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Phil Woolpert
Phil Woolpert was a prominent American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of San Francisco to multiple national championships in the 1950s.
- 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: Andrew Motion Target entity description: Andrew Motion is a British poet, novelist, and biographer who served as the United Kingdom's Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
David Harsent
David Harsent is a British poet and librettist known for his dark, formally inventive work and multiple major poetry awards.
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D.
Edward Bishop
Edward Bishop was a 17th-century New England resident known primarily as the husband of Bridget Bishop, the first person executed during the Salem witch trials.
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E.
Phil Woolpert
Phil Woolpert was a prominent American college basketball coach best known for leading the University of San Francisco to multiple national championships in the 1950s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British writer
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biographer ⓘ human ⓘ novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Dylan Thomas Prize (for lifetime achievement in poetry)
NERFINISHED
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Somerset Maugham Award NERFINISHED ⓘ Whitbread Prize for Biography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Radley College
NERFINISHED
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University College London ⓘ |
| endTime | 2009 (Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom) ⓘ |
| familyName | Motion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
English literature
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contemporary poetry ⓘ |
| genre |
biography
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novel ⓘ poetry ⓘ |
| givenName | Andrew ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Royal Society of Literature NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Andrew Motion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dangerous Play
NERFINISHED
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In the Blood: A Memoir of My Childhood NERFINISHED ⓘ Independence NERFINISHED ⓘ Love in a Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Natural Causes NERFINISHED ⓘ Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Public Property NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver: Return to Treasure Island NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cinder Path NERFINISHED ⓘ The Invention of Dr Cake NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lamberts NERFINISHED ⓘ The New World NERFINISHED ⓘ The Pleasure Steamers NERFINISHED ⓘ Wainewright the Poisoner NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
biographer
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editor ⓘ novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ professor ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1999 (Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom) ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| wrote |
In the Blood: A Memoir of My Childhood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Philip Larkin: A Writer’s Life NERFINISHED ⓘ Public Property NERFINISHED ⓘ Silver: Return to Treasure Island NERFINISHED ⓘ The Cinder Path NERFINISHED ⓘ The Invention of Dr Cake NERFINISHED ⓘ The Lamberts NERFINISHED ⓘ The New World 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: Andrew Motion Description of subject: Andrew Motion is a British poet, novelist, and biographer who served as the United Kingdom's Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.