John Wordsworth
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John Wordsworth was the younger brother of poet William Wordsworth, remembered chiefly for his close relationship with the poet and his tragic death in a shipwreck that deeply affected William’s life and work.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Wordsworth canonical | 9 |
| John Wordsworth (son of William Wordsworth) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1140147 — 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: John Wordsworth Context triple: [William Wordsworth, sibling, John Wordsworth]
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A.
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet renowned for his nature-inspired verse and for helping launch the Romantic Age in English literature.
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B.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher best known for works such as "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan."
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C.
Henry Herbert Southey
Henry Herbert Southey was an English physician and medical writer of the early 19th century, noted for his clinical practice and contributions to medical literature.
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D.
Wystan
Wystan is the distinctive given name of the renowned Anglo-American poet W. H. Auden.
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E.
Robert Southey
Robert Southey was an English Romantic poet, biographer, and historian who served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1813 to 1843.
- 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: John Wordsworth Target entity description: John Wordsworth was the younger brother of poet William Wordsworth, remembered chiefly for his close relationship with the poet and his tragic death in a shipwreck that deeply affected William’s life and work.
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A.
William Wordsworth
William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet renowned for his nature-inspired verse and for helping launch the Romantic Age in English literature.
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B.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher best known for works such as "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan."
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C.
Henry Herbert Southey
Henry Herbert Southey was an English physician and medical writer of the early 19th century, noted for his clinical practice and contributions to medical literature.
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D.
Wystan
Wystan is the distinctive given name of the renowned Anglo-American poet W. H. Auden.
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E.
Robert Southey
Robert Southey was an English Romantic poet, biographer, and historian who served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1813 to 1843.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | person ⓘ |
| birthOrder | younger brother of William Wordsworth ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | shipwreck ⓘ |
| impactOn |
emotional life of William Wordsworth
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poetry of William Wordsworth ⓘ |
| influenced |
life of William Wordsworth
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work of William Wordsworth ⓘ |
| name | John Wordsworth ⓘ |
| notableFor |
close relationship with William Wordsworth
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death in a shipwreck ⓘ |
| relativeOf | William Wordsworth ⓘ |
| sibling | William Wordsworth ⓘ |
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: John Wordsworth Description of subject: John Wordsworth was the younger brother of poet William Wordsworth, remembered chiefly for his close relationship with the poet and his tragic death in a shipwreck that deeply affected William’s life and work.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: John Wordsworth