Richard Chopping
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Richard Chopping was a British painter and illustrator best known for his distinctive trompe-l'œil dust jacket designs for Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Chopping canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T932522 — 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: Richard Chopping Context triple: [From Russia, with Love, coverArtist, Richard Chopping]
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A.
Rudulph Evans
Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Frank Farmer
Frank Farmer is the stoic former Secret Service agent turned professional bodyguard who is hired to protect a famous singer in the film "The Bodyguard."
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C.
Philip Skippon
Philip Skippon was a prominent 17th-century English soldier and Parliamentarian general who played a key role in the English Civil War, particularly as a senior officer in the New Model Army.
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D.
John Crust
John Crust was an Australian architect best known for designing the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
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E.
Richard Greatrex
Richard Greatrex is a British cinematographer best known for his Academy Award-nominated work on the film "Shakespeare in Love."
- 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: Richard Chopping Target entity description: Richard Chopping was a British painter and illustrator best known for his distinctive trompe-l'œil dust jacket designs for Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels.
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A.
Rudulph Evans
Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Frank Farmer
Frank Farmer is the stoic former Secret Service agent turned professional bodyguard who is hired to protect a famous singer in the film "The Bodyguard."
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C.
Philip Skippon
Philip Skippon was a prominent 17th-century English soldier and Parliamentarian general who played a key role in the English Civil War, particularly as a senior officer in the New Model Army.
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D.
John Crust
John Crust was an Australian architect best known for designing the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
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E.
Richard Greatrex
Richard Greatrex is a British cinematographer best known for his Academy Award-nominated work on the film "Shakespeare in Love."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book jacket designer
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human ⓘ illustrator ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith | Ian Fleming ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1917-04-14 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2008-04-17 ⓘ |
| describedAs | British painter and illustrator best known for his distinctive trompe-l'œil dust jacket designs for Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Gresham’s School
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linked to:
Gresham's School
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| fieldOfWork |
book illustration
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fine art painting ⓘ |
| genre | trompe-l'œil ⓘ |
| hasWorkInCollection |
Fitzwilliam Museum
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Victoria and Albert Museum ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| livedWith | Denis Wirth-Miller ⓘ |
| movement | British realist painting ⓘ |
| notableFor |
highly realistic trompe-l'œil painting style
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illustrations and writings on natural history ⓘ trompe-l'œil dust jacket designs for Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels ⓘ |
| notableWork |
dust jacket design for "From Russia, with Love"
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dust jacket design for "Goldfinger" ⓘ dust jacket design for "Octopussy and The Living Daylights" ⓘ dust jacket design for "On Her Majesty’s Secret Service" ⓘ dust jacket design for "The Man with the Golden Gun" ⓘ dust jacket design for "The Spy Who Loved Me" ⓘ dust jacket design for "Thunderball" ⓘ dust jacket design for "You Only Live Twice" ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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illustrator ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| partner | Denis Wirth-Miller ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Colchester
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England ⓘ Essex ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Colchester
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England ⓘ Essex ⓘ |
| residence |
Essex
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Wivenhoe ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| workedOn | James Bond novel dust jackets ⓘ |
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: Richard Chopping Description of subject: Richard Chopping was a British painter and illustrator best known for his distinctive trompe-l'œil dust jacket designs for Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
James Bond novel "The Spy Who Loved Me"
subject linked to:
James Bond short story collection "For Your Eyes Only"
subject linked to:
James Bond novel "From Russia, with Love"
subject linked to:
James Bond novel "Goldfinger"
subject linked to:
James Bond novel "Thunderball"
subject linked to:
James Bond novel "For Your Eyes Only"