Langshaw
E288860
Langshaw is the middle name of the influential British philosopher of language J. L. Austin.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Langshaw canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2685964 — 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: Langshaw Context triple: [J. L. Austin, middleName, Langshaw]
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A.
Goodshaw
Goodshaw is a village and civil parish in Lancashire, England, situated within the Borough of Rossendale.
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B.
Colsterworth
Colsterworth is a village in Lincolnshire, England, best known for its proximity to Woolsthorpe Manor, the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton.
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C.
Bladon
Bladon is a village in Oxfordshire, England, best known as the burial place of Sir Winston Churchill.
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D.
Hannington
Hannington is a small rural village in Wiltshire, England, known for its traditional English countryside setting and historic character.
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E.
Saltwell
Saltwell is a low-power Intel microarchitecture designed primarily for energy-efficient Atom processors used in mobile and embedded devices.
- 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: Langshaw Target entity description: Langshaw is the middle name of the influential British philosopher of language J. L. Austin.
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A.
Goodshaw
Goodshaw is a village and civil parish in Lancashire, England, situated within the Borough of Rossendale.
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B.
Colsterworth
Colsterworth is a village in Lincolnshire, England, best known for its proximity to Woolsthorpe Manor, the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton.
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C.
Bladon
Bladon is a village in Oxfordshire, England, best known as the burial place of Sir Winston Churchill.
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D.
Hannington
Hannington is a small rural village in Wiltshire, England, known for its traditional English countryside setting and historic character.
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E.
Saltwell
Saltwell is a low-power Intel microarchitecture designed primarily for energy-efficient Atom processors used in mobile and embedded devices.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British philosopher
ⓘ
human ⓘ middle name ⓘ philosopher ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1911-03-26 ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1960-02-08 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Balliol College, Oxford
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Shrewsbury School ⓘ |
| employer | University of Oxford ⓘ |
| familyName | Austin ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | philosophy of language ⓘ |
| fullName |
John Langshaw Austin
ⓘ
linked to:
J. L. Austin
|
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasMiddleName | Langshaw ⓘ |
| isMiddleNameOf | J. L. Austin ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
ordinary language philosophy
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speech act theory ⓘ |
| notableWork | How to Do Things with Words ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
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Lancashire ⓘ Lancaster ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
England
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Oxford ⓘ Oxfordshire ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Langshaw Description of subject: Langshaw is the middle name of the influential British philosopher of language J. L. Austin.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Langshaw