Robert Harris
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Robert Harris is a British novelist and former journalist best known for his historical and political thrillers such as "Fatherland," "Enigma," and "The Ghost."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Harris canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11235428 — 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: Robert Harris Context triple: [The Ghost Writer, basedOnAuthor, Robert Harris]
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A.
Ken Follett
Ken Follett is a bestselling Welsh author renowned for his historical and thriller novels, including "The Pillars of the Earth" and "Eye of the Needle."
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B.
Nicholas Ferguson
Nicholas Ferguson is a British businessman and private equity executive best known as the founding figure behind the global investment firm Permira.
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C.
Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks is a British novelist best known for his historical and war-themed fiction, including the acclaimed novel "Birdsong."
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D.
C.J. Sansom
C.J. Sansom was a British historical crime novelist best known for his bestselling Shardlake series set in Tudor England.
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E.
Stephen Cornwell
Stephen Cornwell is a British film producer and screenwriter, known for co-founding The Ink Factory and producing adaptations of John le Carré’s works as well as other international thrillers.
- 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: Robert Harris Target entity description: Robert Harris is a British novelist and former journalist best known for his historical and political thrillers such as "Fatherland," "Enigma," and "The Ghost."
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A.
Ken Follett
Ken Follett is a bestselling Welsh author renowned for his historical and thriller novels, including "The Pillars of the Earth" and "Eye of the Needle."
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B.
Nicholas Ferguson
Nicholas Ferguson is a British businessman and private equity executive best known as the founding figure behind the global investment firm Permira.
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C.
Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks is a British novelist best known for his historical and war-themed fiction, including the acclaimed novel "Birdsong."
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D.
C.J. Sansom
C.J. Sansom was a British historical crime novelist best known for his bestselling Shardlake series set in Tudor England.
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E.
Stephen Cornwell
Stephen Cornwell is a British film producer and screenwriter, known for co-founding The Ink Factory and producing adaptations of John le Carré’s works as well as other international thrillers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical novelist
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human ⓘ journalist ⓘ novelist ⓘ political thriller writer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Harris ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
historical writing
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journalism ⓘ literature ⓘ political commentary ⓘ |
| genre |
historical fiction
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political thriller ⓘ thriller ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Robert Harris ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Higher Form of Killing
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Act of Oblivion ⓘ An Officer and a Spy ⓘ Archangel ⓘ Conclave ⓘ Dictator ⓘ Enigma ⓘ Fatherland ⓘ Fatherland trilogy (standalone but thematically linked works) ⓘ Good and Faithful Servant ⓘ Imperium ⓘ Lustrum ⓘ Munich ⓘ Pompeii ⓘ Selling Hitler ⓘ The Cicero Trilogy ⓘ The Fear Index ⓘ The Ghost ⓘ The Ghost Writer ⓘ The Roman novels about Cicero ⓘ The Second Sleep ⓘ V2 ⓘ novels adapted for film ⓘ novels set in Ancient Rome ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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non-fiction writer ⓘ novelist ⓘ |
| workAdaptedAs |
film adaptation of Enigma
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film adaptation of Fatherland ⓘ film adaptation of The Ghost Writer ⓘ |
| writingStyle |
alternate history elements
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meticulous historical research ⓘ political intrigue ⓘ |
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: Robert Harris Description of subject: Robert Harris is a British novelist and former journalist best known for his historical and political thrillers such as "Fatherland," "Enigma," and "The Ghost."
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.