Richard Ellis
E202943
Richard Ellis was a 19th-century Texas statesman best known for presiding over the convention that declared Texas’ independence from Mexico.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Ellis canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1025261 — 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 Ellis Context triple: [Ellis County, Texas, namedAfter, Richard Ellis]
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A.
Paul Bacon
Paul Bacon was an influential American graphic designer and illustrator renowned for pioneering the "big book" cover style for major 20th-century novels and jazz albums.
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B.
Douglas Clifton Brown
Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
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C.
David Howell Evans
David Howell Evans, better known as The Edge, is the lead guitarist and a founding member of the Irish rock band U2, renowned for his distinctive, effects-driven playing style.
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D.
Edward Doty
Edward Doty was an English indentured servant who became a notable early settler of Plymouth Colony and a signer of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
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E.
John Seale
John Seale is an Australian cinematographer renowned for his Academy Award–winning work on films such as "The English Patient" and his visually striking collaborations with major directors.
- 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 Ellis Target entity description: Richard Ellis was a 19th-century Texas statesman best known for presiding over the convention that declared Texas’ independence from Mexico.
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A.
Paul Bacon
Paul Bacon was an influential American graphic designer and illustrator renowned for pioneering the "big book" cover style for major 20th-century novels and jazz albums.
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B.
Douglas Clifton Brown
Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
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C.
David Howell Evans
David Howell Evans, better known as The Edge, is the lead guitarist and a founding member of the Irish rock band U2, renowned for his distinctive, effects-driven playing style.
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D.
Edward Doty
Edward Doty was an English indentured servant who became a notable early settler of Plymouth Colony and a signer of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
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E.
John Seale
John Seale is an Australian cinematographer renowned for his Academy Award–winning work on films such as "The English Patient" and his visually striking collaborations with major directors.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
delegate to a constitutional convention
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person ⓘ politician ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| countryOfDeath |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| ethnicGroup | American ⓘ |
| familyName | Ellis ⓘ |
| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
provisional government of the Republic of Texas
ⓘ
linked to:
provisional government of Texas
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| name | Richard Ellis ⓘ |
| notableFor |
presiding over the convention that declared Texas’ independence from Mexico
ⓘ
signing the Texas Declaration of Independence ⓘ |
| occupation |
judge
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planter ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Convention of 1836
ⓘ
Texas Revolution ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Virginia ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Texas ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | supporter of Texas independence from Mexico ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
delegate to the Convention of 1836
ⓘ
member of the Congress of the Republic of Texas ⓘ president of the Convention of 1836 ⓘ |
| regionServed |
Republic of Texas
ⓘ
Texas ⓘ |
| residence | Texas ⓘ |
| signed | Texas Declaration of Independence ⓘ |
| workLocation | Texas ⓘ |
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 Ellis Description of subject: Richard Ellis was a 19th-century Texas statesman best known for presiding over the convention that declared Texas’ independence from Mexico.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.