Richard Selley
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Richard Selley is a British geologist and petroleum sedimentologist known for his influential work on sedimentary basins and hydrocarbon exploration.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Selley canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1295123 — 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 Selley Context triple: [William Smith Medal, notableRecipient, Richard Selley]
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A.
Martin Daly
Martin Daly is a prominent Canadian evolutionary psychologist known for his influential research on human conflict, violence, and family relationships from an evolutionary perspective.
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B.
Robert G. Heft
Robert G. Heft was an American designer best known for creating the 50-star version of the United States flag while still a high school student.
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C.
John Tooby
John Tooby is an American anthropologist and one of the founders of evolutionary psychology, known for his influential work on the evolutionary basis of the human mind and behavior.
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D.
James S. Langer
James S. Langer is an American theoretical physicist known for his work on phase transitions, pattern formation, and the dynamics of nonequilibrium systems.
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E.
David Reedy
David Reedy was one of the original New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
- 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 Selley Target entity description: Richard Selley is a British geologist and petroleum sedimentologist known for his influential work on sedimentary basins and hydrocarbon exploration.
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A.
Martin Daly
Martin Daly is a prominent Canadian evolutionary psychologist known for his influential research on human conflict, violence, and family relationships from an evolutionary perspective.
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B.
Robert G. Heft
Robert G. Heft was an American designer best known for creating the 50-star version of the United States flag while still a high school student.
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C.
John Tooby
John Tooby is an American anthropologist and one of the founders of evolutionary psychology, known for his influential work on the evolutionary basis of the human mind and behavior.
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D.
James S. Langer
James S. Langer is an American theoretical physicist known for his work on phase transitions, pattern formation, and the dynamics of nonequilibrium systems.
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E.
David Reedy
David Reedy was one of the original New York stockbrokers who helped found what became the New York Stock Exchange by signing the 1792 Buttonwood Agreement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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 Selley Description of subject: Richard Selley is a British geologist and petroleum sedimentologist known for his influential work on sedimentary basins and hydrocarbon exploration.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.