Nan Shepherd
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Nan Shepherd was a Scottish modernist novelist and poet best known for her nature writing and influential book "The Living Mountain," which reflects her deep connection to the Cairngorms.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Nan Shepherd canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5605976 — 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: Nan Shepherd Context triple: [Scottish literature, notableAuthor, Nan Shepherd]
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A.
Alfred Wainwright
Alfred Wainwright was an English fellwalker, author, and illustrator best known for his meticulously hand-drawn guidebooks to the Lake District fells.
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B.
Jonathan Raban
Jonathan Raban was a British travel writer, novelist, and critic renowned for his reflective, genre-blending works on place, identity, and journey.
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C.
A. D. Lindsay
A. D. Lindsay was a prominent British philosopher and academic who served as Master of Balliol College, Oxford, and was known for his work on political philosophy and Plato.
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D.
George Dawes Green
George Dawes Green is an American novelist and storyteller best known as the founder of The Moth storytelling organization and the author of acclaimed suspense novels such as "The Juror."
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E.
J. R. Ackerley
J. R. Ackerley was a British writer and editor best known for his candid memoirs and for serving as the longtime literary editor of The Listener.
- 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: Nan Shepherd Target entity description: Nan Shepherd was a Scottish modernist novelist and poet best known for her nature writing and influential book "The Living Mountain," which reflects her deep connection to the Cairngorms.
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A.
Alfred Wainwright
Alfred Wainwright was an English fellwalker, author, and illustrator best known for his meticulously hand-drawn guidebooks to the Lake District fells.
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B.
Jonathan Raban
Jonathan Raban was a British travel writer, novelist, and critic renowned for his reflective, genre-blending works on place, identity, and journey.
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C.
A. D. Lindsay
A. D. Lindsay was a prominent British philosopher and academic who served as Master of Balliol College, Oxford, and was known for his work on political philosophy and Plato.
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D.
George Dawes Green
George Dawes Green is an American novelist and storyteller best known as the founder of The Moth storytelling organization and the author of acclaimed suspense novels such as "The Juror."
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E.
J. R. Ackerley
J. R. Ackerley was a British writer and editor best known for his candid memoirs and for serving as the longtime literary editor of The Listener.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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modernist writer ⓘ nature writer ⓘ non-fiction book ⓘ novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| author | Nan Shepherd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthName | Anna Shepherd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1893-02-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1981-02-23 ⓘ |
| depictedOn | Scottish five-pound note ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Aberdeen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Aberdeen College of Education NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literature
ⓘ
nature writing ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| genre |
Scottish fiction
ⓘ
modernist literature ⓘ nature writing ⓘ |
| givenName | Anna NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honouredIn | Royal Bank of Scotland polymer £5 note NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Cairngorms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfExpression | English ⓘ |
| literaryPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| mainSubject | Cairngorms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | modernism ⓘ |
| name | Nan Shepherd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | Nan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Pass in the Grampians
NERFINISHED
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The Living Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ The Quarry Wood NERFINISHED ⓘ The Weatherhouse NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
essayist
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ poet ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Cult, Aberdeenshire, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Aberdeen, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Aberdeen, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | lecturer in English ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
ⓘ
surface form:
Presbyterianism
|
| residence | Aberdeen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | The Living Mountain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Aberdeen
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cairngorms 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: Nan Shepherd Description of subject: Nan Shepherd was a Scottish modernist novelist and poet best known for her nature writing and influential book "The Living Mountain," which reflects her deep connection to the Cairngorms.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.