Robert Cochrane
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Robert Cochrane was a prominent 20th-century English occultist and influential figure in the development of modern traditional witchcraft.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Cochrane canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2055192 — 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: Robert Cochrane Context triple: [Cochrane, hasNotableBearer, Robert Cochrane]
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A.
Ernest Merritt
Ernest Merritt was an American physicist and academic who co-founded the influential scientific journal Physical Review and helped shape early 20th-century physics research in the United States.
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B.
Paul Le Mat
Paul Le Mat is an American actor best known for his breakout role as the hot-rodder John Milner in the coming-of-age film "American Graffiti."
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C.
Alasdair Steedman
Alasdair Steedman was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to high command, including leadership of the RAF’s Fighter Command.
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D.
Ken MacLeod
Ken MacLeod is a Scottish science fiction author known for his politically charged, idea-driven novels that explore socialism, libertarianism, and future societies.
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E.
David Urquhart
David Urquhart was a 19th-century Scottish diplomat, writer, and politician known for his advocacy of Turkish interests and his strong opposition to Russian expansion.
- 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: Robert Cochrane Target entity description: Robert Cochrane was a prominent 20th-century English occultist and influential figure in the development of modern traditional witchcraft.
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A.
Ernest Merritt
Ernest Merritt was an American physicist and academic who co-founded the influential scientific journal Physical Review and helped shape early 20th-century physics research in the United States.
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B.
Paul Le Mat
Paul Le Mat is an American actor best known for his breakout role as the hot-rodder John Milner in the coming-of-age film "American Graffiti."
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C.
Alasdair Steedman
Alasdair Steedman was a senior Royal Air Force officer who rose to high command, including leadership of the RAF’s Fighter Command.
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D.
Ken MacLeod
Ken MacLeod is a Scottish science fiction author known for his politically charged, idea-driven novels that explore socialism, libertarianism, and future societies.
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E.
David Urquhart
David Urquhart was a 19th-century Scottish diplomat, writer, and politician known for his advocacy of Turkish interests and his strong opposition to Russian expansion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
20th-century occultist
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English person ⓘ esoteric writer ⓘ occultist ⓘ witch ⓘ |
| activeIn |
20th century
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England ⓘ |
| birthName | Roy Bowers ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| describedAs |
influential figure in the development of modern traditional witchcraft
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prominent 20th-century English occultist ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
esotericism
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folk magic ⓘ occultism ⓘ witchcraft ⓘ |
| influenced |
later practitioners of traditional witchcraft
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modern traditional witchcraft currents in Britain ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| movement |
modern paganism
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traditional witchcraft ⓘ |
| name | Robert Cochrane ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
development of modern traditional witchcraft
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founding a form of traditional witchcraft sometimes called the Clan of Tubal Cain ⓘ |
| occupation |
occultist
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writer ⓘ |
| religion | witchcraft ⓘ |
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: Robert Cochrane Description of subject: Robert Cochrane was a prominent 20th-century English occultist and influential figure in the development of modern traditional witchcraft.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.