Thomas Holme
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Thomas Holme was a 17th-century surveyor and cartographer who served as William Penn’s chief surveyor and laid out the original plan for Philadelphia.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Holme canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T363082 — 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: Thomas Holme Context triple: [Philadelphia street grid, designer, Thomas Holme]
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A.
Bartholomew Gedney
Bartholomew Gedney was a colonial Massachusetts magistrate best known for serving as one of the judges during the Salem witch trials of 1692.
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B.
Thomas Belsham
Thomas Belsham was an English Unitarian minister, theologian, and biblical scholar known for his influential role in late 18th- and early 19th-century rational dissent.
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C.
Thomas Parkhurst
Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
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D.
William Hulton
William Hulton was a British magistrate and landowner best known for ordering the yeomanry to arrest speakers at the 1819 Peterloo reform meeting, a decision that helped trigger the ensuing massacre.
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E.
Charles Trubshaw
Charles Trubshaw was a British architect best known for designing prominent Victorian railway hotels and stations in England.
- 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: Thomas Holme Target entity description: Thomas Holme was a 17th-century surveyor and cartographer who served as William Penn’s chief surveyor and laid out the original plan for Philadelphia.
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A.
Bartholomew Gedney
Bartholomew Gedney was a colonial Massachusetts magistrate best known for serving as one of the judges during the Salem witch trials of 1692.
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B.
Thomas Belsham
Thomas Belsham was an English Unitarian minister, theologian, and biblical scholar known for his influential role in late 18th- and early 19th-century rational dissent.
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C.
Thomas Parkhurst
Thomas Parkhurst was a 17th-century London bookseller and publisher known for issuing prominent Puritan and religious works.
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D.
William Hulton
William Hulton was a British magistrate and landowner best known for ordering the yeomanry to arrest speakers at the 1819 Peterloo reform meeting, a decision that helped trigger the ensuing massacre.
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E.
Charles Trubshaw
Charles Trubshaw was a British architect best known for designing prominent Victorian railway hotels and stations in England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cartographer
ⓘ
person ⓘ surveyor ⓘ |
| appointedBy | William Penn ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Religious Society of Friends
ⓘ
William Penn ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 17th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | England ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1624 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1695 ⓘ |
| designed | street grid of Philadelphia ⓘ |
| employer |
Province of Pennsylvania
ⓘ
William Penn ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
cartography
ⓘ
land surveying ⓘ |
| knownFor |
laying out the city plan of Philadelphia
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producing the first detailed map of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| maps | map of Pennsylvania published in 1687 ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Parliamentary army
ⓘ
linked to:
New Model Army
|
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Mapp of Ye Improved Part of Pensilvania in America
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original plan for Philadelphia ⓘ |
| occupation |
cartographer
ⓘ
surveyor ⓘ |
| partOf | early colonial administration of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Lancashire, England
ⓘ
linked to:
Lancashire
|
| placeOfDeath | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Surveyor General of Pennsylvania
ⓘ
linked to:
Jeremiah Dixon
William Penn’s chief surveyor ⓘ |
| religion |
Quakerism
ⓘ
linked to:
Religious Society of Friends
|
| workLocation |
Philadelphia
ⓘ
Province of Pennsylvania ⓘ |
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: Thomas Holme Description of subject: Thomas Holme was a 17th-century surveyor and cartographer who served as William Penn’s chief surveyor and laid out the original plan for Philadelphia.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.