Cornelia Funke
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Cornelia Funke is a German author best known for her fantasy novels for children and young adults, including the popular Inkheart trilogy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Cornelia Funke canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5343203 — 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: Cornelia Funke Context triple: [Inkheart, basedOnAuthor, Cornelia Funke]
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A.
Cressida Cowell
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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B.
Sandra Pullman
Sandra Pullman is a determined, by-the-book detective who leads a team of retired officers investigating cold cases in the British television series "New Tricks."
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C.
Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer is an Irish author best known for creating the popular Artemis Fowl series of children's fantasy novels.
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D.
Terri Windling
Terri Windling is an American editor, author, and artist renowned for her influential work in fantasy literature and mythic arts.
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E.
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."
- 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: Cornelia Funke Target entity description: Cornelia Funke is a German author best known for her fantasy novels for children and young adults, including the popular Inkheart trilogy.
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A.
Cressida Cowell
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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B.
Sandra Pullman
Sandra Pullman is a determined, by-the-book detective who leads a team of retired officers investigating cold cases in the British television series "New Tricks."
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C.
Eoin Colfer
Eoin Colfer is an Irish author best known for creating the popular Artemis Fowl series of children's fantasy novels.
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D.
Terri Windling
Terri Windling is an American editor, author, and artist renowned for her influential work in fantasy literature and mythic arts.
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E.
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."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book series
ⓘ
children's writer ⓘ human ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
21st century
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late 20th century ⓘ |
| citizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1958-12-10 ⓘ |
| familyName | Funke ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
children's fiction
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fantasy fiction ⓘ literature ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
children's literature
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fantasy literature ⓘ young adult literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Cornelia ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Inkdeath
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Inkheart ⓘ Inkspell ⓘ |
| hasTrilogy |
Inkheart trilogy
ⓘ
linked to:
Inkspell
|
| hasWebsite | https://corneliafunke.com ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | German ⓘ |
| name | Cornelia Funke ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | German ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Dragon Rider
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Ghosthunters series ⓘ Inkdeath ⓘ Inkheart ⓘ Inkspell ⓘ Reckless ⓘ The Thief Lord ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
ⓘ
screenwriter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Dorsten ⓘ |
| residence | Los Angeles ⓘ |
| wrote |
Dragon Rider
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Ghosthunters series ⓘ Inkdeath ⓘ Inkheart ⓘ Inkspell ⓘ Reckless ⓘ The Thief Lord ⓘ |
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: Cornelia Funke Description of subject: Cornelia Funke is a German author best known for her fantasy novels for children and young adults, including the popular Inkheart trilogy.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.