Thomas Woolner
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Thomas Woolner was a prominent 19th-century English sculptor and poet associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
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| Thomas Woolner canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1623962 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Woolner Context triple: [The Germ, foundedBy, Thomas Woolner]
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Frederic Sandys
Frederic Sandys was a 19th-century British painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for his highly detailed, symbolically rich portraits and mythological subjects.
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Evelyn De Morgan
Evelyn De Morgan was a British painter associated with the later Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for her allegorical, spiritually themed works and strong, symbolically portrayed female figures.
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Edward Burne-Jones
Edward Burne-Jones was a British Victorian painter and designer associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his romantic, medieval-inspired works and contributions to the decorative arts.
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George Washington Watts
George Washington Watts was an American industrialist and philanthropist best known for helping build the tobacco empire that shaped Durham, North Carolina’s early economic growth.
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Arthur Hughes
Arthur Hughes was a 19th-century English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for his poetic, detailed, and often romantic works.
- 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 Woolner Target entity description: Thomas Woolner was a prominent 19th-century English sculptor and poet associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
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Frederic Sandys
Frederic Sandys was a 19th-century British painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for his highly detailed, symbolically rich portraits and mythological subjects.
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B.
Evelyn De Morgan
Evelyn De Morgan was a British painter associated with the later Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for her allegorical, spiritually themed works and strong, symbolically portrayed female figures.
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C.
Edward Burne-Jones
Edward Burne-Jones was a British Victorian painter and designer associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his romantic, medieval-inspired works and contributions to the decorative arts.
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D.
George Washington Watts
George Washington Watts was an American industrialist and philanthropist best known for helping build the tobacco empire that shaped Durham, North Carolina’s early economic growth.
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E.
Arthur Hughes
Arthur Hughes was a 19th-century English painter and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, known for his poetic, detailed, and often romantic works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
How these facts were elicited
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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.
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Subject: Thomas Woolner Description of subject: Thomas Woolner was a prominent 19th-century English sculptor and poet associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
The Germ: Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art
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associatedPerson
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Thomas Woolner
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Statue of Charles Darwin at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
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creator
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Thomas Woolner
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subject linked to:
Statue of John Robert Godley in Christchurch, New Zealand