Nicholas Bacon
E191345
Nicholas Bacon was a prominent 16th-century English lawyer and statesman who served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under Queen Elizabeth I.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nicholas Bacon canonical | 9 |
| Sir Nicholas Bacon | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1688255 — 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: Nicholas Bacon Context triple: [Francis Bacon, 1st Baron Verulam, father, Nicholas Bacon]
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A.
Henry Bacon
Henry Bacon was an American architect best known for designing the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Edmund Gonville
Edmund Gonville was a 14th-century English cleric and academic best known for establishing the college that later became Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge.
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C.
Christopher Hatton
Christopher Hatton was an influential Elizabethan courtier, politician, and favorite of Queen Elizabeth I who rose to become Lord Chancellor of England.
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D.
Paul Dudley
Paul Dudley was a prominent early 18th-century Massachusetts jurist and attorney general known for his influential role in the legal and political life of colonial New England.
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E.
Nicholas Hall
Nicholas Hall is a grand, ornately decorated state room within the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, historically used for imperial ceremonies and receptions.
- 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: Nicholas Bacon Target entity description: Nicholas Bacon was a prominent 16th-century English lawyer and statesman who served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under Queen Elizabeth I.
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A.
Henry Bacon
Henry Bacon was an American architect best known for designing the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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B.
Edmund Gonville
Edmund Gonville was a 14th-century English cleric and academic best known for establishing the college that later became Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge.
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C.
Christopher Hatton
Christopher Hatton was an influential Elizabethan courtier, politician, and favorite of Queen Elizabeth I who rose to become Lord Chancellor of England.
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D.
Paul Dudley
Paul Dudley was a prominent early 18th-century Massachusetts jurist and attorney general known for his influential role in the legal and political life of colonial New England.
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E.
Nicholas Hall
Nicholas Hall is a grand, ornately decorated state room within the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, historically used for imperial ceremonies and receptions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Nicholas Bacon Description of subject: Nicholas Bacon was a prominent 16th-century English lawyer and statesman who served as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under Queen Elizabeth I.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Baron Verulam
linked to: Nicholas Bacon
linked to: Nicholas Bacon
linked to: Nicholas Bacon
linked to: Nicholas Bacon