When I Was a Nipper
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"When I Was a Nipper" is a nostalgic autobiographical book by British gardener and broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh, reflecting on childhood and growing up in post-war Britain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| When I Was a Nipper canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8122493 — 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: When I Was a Nipper Context triple: [Alan Titchmarsh, notableWork, When I Was a Nipper]
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A.
When We Were Very Young
"When We Were Very Young" is a 1924 collection of children's poems by A. A. Milne that introduced the character Christopher Robin and helped pave the way for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories.
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B.
When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy
"When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy" is a melancholic, reflective song sung by the clown Feste at the end of Shakespeare’s comedy *Twelfth Night*, often interpreted as a commentary on the play’s themes of folly, time, and human experience.
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C.
The Minstrel Boy
"The Minstrel Boy" is a famous early 19th-century Irish patriotic song by Thomas Moore that mourns lost freedom and celebrates steadfast courage in the face of oppression.
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D.
The Children
"The Children" is the climactic tenth episode of Game of Thrones season 4, featuring several major character confrontations and turning points that reshape the political and mystical landscape of Westeros.
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E.
The Children
"The Children" is a critically acclaimed stage play by British playwright Lucy Kirkwood that explores aging, responsibility, and the aftermath of a nuclear disaster through the reunion of three retired nuclear scientists.
- 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: When I Was a Nipper Target entity description: "When I Was a Nipper" is a nostalgic autobiographical book by British gardener and broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh, reflecting on childhood and growing up in post-war Britain.
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A.
When We Were Very Young
"When We Were Very Young" is a 1924 collection of children's poems by A. A. Milne that introduced the character Christopher Robin and helped pave the way for the Winnie-the-Pooh stories.
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B.
When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy
"When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy" is a melancholic, reflective song sung by the clown Feste at the end of Shakespeare’s comedy *Twelfth Night*, often interpreted as a commentary on the play’s themes of folly, time, and human experience.
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C.
The Minstrel Boy
"The Minstrel Boy" is a famous early 19th-century Irish patriotic song by Thomas Moore that mourns lost freedom and celebrates steadfast courage in the face of oppression.
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D.
The Children
"The Children" is the climactic tenth episode of Game of Thrones season 4, featuring several major character confrontations and turning points that reshape the political and mystical landscape of Westeros.
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E.
The Children
"The Children" is a historical novel by American writer Howard Fast that explores themes of social justice and political struggle through the lives of working-class characters.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | book ⓘ |
| about |
British social history
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family life ⓘ life in Yorkshire ⓘ working-class childhood ⓘ |
| author | Alan Titchmarsh ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiography
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memoir ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasMediaType | print ⓘ |
| intendedAudience | general readership ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
nostalgic
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reflective ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
Alan Titchmarsh
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childhood ⓘ growing up ⓘ post-war Britain ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | first-person ⓘ |
| notableFor |
depicting childhood in post-war Britain
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personal recollections of Alan Titchmarsh ⓘ |
| notableWork | When I Was a Nipper ⓘ |
| settingTime | post-war period ⓘ |
| workOf | Alan Titchmarsh ⓘ |
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: When I Was a Nipper Description of subject: "When I Was a Nipper" is a nostalgic autobiographical book by British gardener and broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh, reflecting on childhood and growing up in post-war Britain.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
When I Was a Nipper