Humphry Fortescue Osmond
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Humphry Fortescue Osmond was a British psychiatrist best known for coining the term "psychedelic" and pioneering research into the therapeutic use of hallucinogenic drugs.
All labels observed (1)
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| Humphry Fortescue Osmond canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3793265 — 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: Humphry Fortescue Osmond Context triple: [Humphry Osmond, name, Humphry Fortescue Osmond]
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Herbert Plumer
Herbert Plumer was a British Army general and First World War corps and army commander noted for his methodical leadership on the Western Front, including at battles such as Messines and Passchendaele.
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B.
Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys
Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys, better known as Frederic Sandys, was a 19th-century British Pre-Raphaelite painter and illustrator renowned for his highly detailed, often symbolically rich portraits and mythological subjects.
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C.
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu was a British-American anthropologist and humanist known for his influential writings on race, gender, and the biological basis of human behavior.
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D.
Charles Manners-Sutton
Charles Manners-Sutton was a prominent early 19th-century British clergyman who served as Archbishop of Canterbury and played a key ceremonial role in the reign of George IV.
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E.
Charles Spencer Crowe
Charles Spencer Crowe is one of the sons of New Zealand-born actor and filmmaker Russell Crowe.
- 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: Humphry Fortescue Osmond Target entity description: Humphry Fortescue Osmond was a British psychiatrist best known for coining the term "psychedelic" and pioneering research into the therapeutic use of hallucinogenic drugs.
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A.
Herbert Plumer
Herbert Plumer was a British Army general and First World War corps and army commander noted for his methodical leadership on the Western Front, including at battles such as Messines and Passchendaele.
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B.
Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys
Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys, better known as Frederic Sandys, was a 19th-century British Pre-Raphaelite painter and illustrator renowned for his highly detailed, often symbolically rich portraits and mythological subjects.
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C.
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu
Montague Francis Ashley-Montagu was a British-American anthropologist and humanist known for his influential writings on race, gender, and the biological basis of human behavior.
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D.
Charles Manners-Sutton
Charles Manners-Sutton was a prominent early 19th-century British clergyman who served as Archbishop of Canterbury and played a key ceremonial role in the reign of George IV.
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E.
Charles Spencer Crowe
Charles Spencer Crowe is one of the sons of New Zealand-born actor and filmmaker Russell Crowe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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human ⓘ psychiatrist ⓘ researcher ⓘ |
| citizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coinedTerm | psychedelic ⓘ |
| familyName | Osmond ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
hallucinogens research
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psychiatry ⓘ psychopharmacology ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Humphry ⓘ |
| hasNotableConcept |
psychedelic therapy
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use of hallucinogens in psychiatry ⓘ |
| influenced |
psychedelic therapy movement
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research on psychedelic-assisted treatment of alcoholism ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | Humphry Fortescue Osmond ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
coining the term "psychedelic"
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pioneering research into the therapeutic use of hallucinogenic drugs ⓘ |
| occupation | psychiatrist ⓘ |
| workedOn |
hallucinogenic-assisted psychotherapy
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therapeutic use of LSD ⓘ therapeutic use of mescaline ⓘ |
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.
Input
Subject: Humphry Fortescue Osmond Description of subject: Humphry Fortescue Osmond was a British psychiatrist best known for coining the term "psychedelic" and pioneering research into the therapeutic use of hallucinogenic drugs.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.