Holme
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Holme is a surname and place name of English origin that appears as a variant of the more common name "Holmes."
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Holme canonical | 9 |
| Holme, Cambridgeshire | 1 |
| Holme, Cumbria | 1 |
| Holme, West Yorkshire | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T270152 — 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: Holme Context triple: [Holmes, hasVariant, Holme]
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A.
Godalming
Godalming is a historic market town in southeast England known for its picturesque streets, riverside setting, and role as a commuter hub for London.
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B.
Windlesham
Windlesham is a village and civil parish in the Surrey Heath district of Surrey, England, known for its affluent residential character and leafy surroundings.
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C.
Holmsey North
Holmsey North is the founder of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, a prominent museum dedicated to exhibiting innovative contemporary art.
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D.
Hawkenbury
Hawkenbury is a residential suburb and community area of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England.
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E.
Breadsall
Breadsall is a village in Derbyshire, England, known for its historic countryside setting and the nearby Breadsall Priory.
- 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: Holme Target entity description: Holme is a surname and place name of English origin that appears as a variant of the more common name "Holmes."
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A.
Godalming
Godalming is a historic market town in southeast England known for its picturesque streets, riverside setting, and role as a commuter hub for London.
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B.
Windlesham
Windlesham is a village and civil parish in the Surrey Heath district of Surrey, England, known for its affluent residential character and leafy surroundings.
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C.
Holmsey North
Holmsey North is the founder of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, a prominent museum dedicated to exhibiting innovative contemporary art.
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D.
Hawkenbury
Hawkenbury is a residential suburb and community area of Royal Tunbridge Wells in Kent, England.
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E.
Breadsall
Breadsall is a village in Derbyshire, England, known for its historic countryside setting and the nearby Breadsall Priory.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language surname
ⓘ
person ⓘ person ⓘ person ⓘ place name ⓘ surname ⓘ toponymic surname ⓘ village ⓘ village ⓘ village ⓘ village ⓘ village ⓘ |
| country |
England
ⓘ
England ⓘ England ⓘ England ⓘ England ⓘ |
| derivedFromWordMeaning |
islet
ⓘ
river meadow ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalOrigin |
Middle English
ⓘ
Old Norse ⓘ
linked to:
Norse
|
| hasGeographicUsage | England ⓘ |
| hasGivenName |
Edward
ⓘ
Thea ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Edward Holme
ⓘ
Randle Holme ⓘ Thea Holme ⓘ |
| hasOccupation |
actress
ⓘ
educationalist ⓘ herald ⓘ physician ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| hasSpellingVariantOf | Holmes ⓘ |
| hasSurname |
Holme
ⓘ
Holme ⓘ Holme ⓘ |
| hasToponym |
Holme, Cambridgeshire
ⓘ
linked to:
Holme
Holme, Cumbria ⓘ
linked to:
Holme
Holme, West Yorkshire ⓘ
linked to:
Holme
Holme-next-the-Sea ⓘ Holme-on-Spalding-Moor ⓘ |
| hasVariant | Holmes ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Cambridgeshire
ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridgeshire, England
Cumbria ⓘ East Riding of Yorkshire ⓘ Norfolk ⓘ West Yorkshire ⓘ |
| usedAs |
family name
ⓘ
place name in England ⓘ |
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: Holme Description of subject: Holme is a surname and place name of English origin that appears as a variant of the more common name "Holmes."
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.