David Szalay
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David Szalay is a British-Canadian novelist acclaimed for his psychologically rich, formally inventive fiction, including the Booker-shortlisted novel "All That Man Is."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Szalay canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7581428 — 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 Szalay Context triple: [Betty Trask Award, notableWinner, David Szalay]
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A.
Nathan Englander
Nathan Englander is an American author known for his acclaimed short stories and novels that explore Jewish identity, history, and moral complexity.
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B.
Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss is an acclaimed contemporary American novelist known for her introspective, formally inventive works such as "The History of Love" and "Great House," which often explore memory, identity, and Jewish history.
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C.
Jeffrey Auerbach
Jeffrey Auerbach is a film producer best known for his work on the stop-motion animated feature "Corpse Bride."
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D.
Naomi Alderman
Naomi Alderman is a British novelist and game writer best known for her award-winning speculative novel "The Power" and her explorations of religion, power, and gender in contemporary fiction.
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E.
Eyal Waldman
Eyal Waldman is an Israeli entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of high-performance networking company Mellanox Technologies.
- 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 Szalay Target entity description: David Szalay is a British-Canadian novelist acclaimed for his psychologically rich, formally inventive fiction, including the Booker-shortlisted novel "All That Man Is."
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A.
Nathan Englander
Nathan Englander is an American author known for his acclaimed short stories and novels that explore Jewish identity, history, and moral complexity.
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B.
Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss is an acclaimed contemporary American novelist known for her introspective, formally inventive works such as "The History of Love" and "Great House," which often explore memory, identity, and Jewish history.
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C.
Jeffrey Auerbach
Jeffrey Auerbach is a film producer best known for his work on the stop-motion animated feature "Corpse Bride."
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D.
Naomi Alderman
Naomi Alderman is a British novelist and game writer best known for her award-winning speculative novel "The Power" and her explorations of religion, power, and gender in contemporary fiction.
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E.
Eyal Waldman
Eyal Waldman is an Israeli entrepreneur and engineer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of high-performance networking company Mellanox Technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
novel
ⓘ
novelist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Oxford ⓘ |
| author |
David Szalay
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David Szalay ⓘ David Szalay ⓘ David Szalay ⓘ David Szalay ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Betty Trask Award ⓘ |
| birthCountry | Canada ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Montreal ⓘ |
| countryOfResidence | Hungary ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Oxford ⓘ |
| genre | literary fiction ⓘ |
| hasWorkInForm |
novel
ⓘ
short story ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| nationality |
British
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Canadian ⓘ |
| notableFor |
formally inventive fiction
ⓘ
psychologically rich fiction ⓘ |
| notableWork |
All That Man Is
ⓘ
London and the South-East ⓘ
linked to:
South East England
Spring ⓘ The Innocent ⓘ Turbulence ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
ⓘ
writer ⓘ |
| shortlistedFor |
Giller Prize
ⓘ
Man Booker Prize ⓘ
linked to:
Booker Prize
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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 Szalay Description of subject: David Szalay is a British-Canadian novelist acclaimed for his psychologically rich, formally inventive fiction, including the Booker-shortlisted novel "All That Man Is."
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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