John Moore (physician and writer)
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John Moore was an 18th-century Scottish physician, travel writer, and satirist best known for his novel "Zeluco" and his influential travel journals.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Moore (physician and writer) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4869860 — 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: John Moore (physician and writer) Context triple: [Sir John Moore, parent, John Moore (physician and writer)]
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A.
Richard Moore
Richard Moore was an early 17th-century English colonial administrator who became the inaugural governor of Bermuda, helping to establish the island’s first formal government.
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B.
Edward Darley Boit
Edward Darley Boit was a 19th-century American lawyer and art collector best known today as the father of the four girls depicted in John Singer Sargent’s famous painting "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit."
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C.
A. J. Cronin
A. J. Cronin was a Scottish physician-turned-novelist best known for his popular, socially conscious works such as "The Citadel" and "The Keys of the Kingdom."
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D.
Dr. William Weir
Dr. William Weir is a central character in the science fiction horror film "Event Horizon," portrayed as the troubled designer of the ill-fated experimental starship whose return from a mysterious journey triggers the movie’s terrifying events.
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E.
Lancelot Hodgkin
Lancelot Hodgkin is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Hodgkin surname, though specific widely known achievements or biographical details are not well documented.
- 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: John Moore (physician and writer) Target entity description: John Moore was an 18th-century Scottish physician, travel writer, and satirist best known for his novel "Zeluco" and his influential travel journals.
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A.
Richard Moore
Richard Moore was an early 17th-century English colonial administrator who became the inaugural governor of Bermuda, helping to establish the island’s first formal government.
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B.
Edward Darley Boit
Edward Darley Boit was a 19th-century American lawyer and art collector best known today as the father of the four girls depicted in John Singer Sargent’s famous painting "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit."
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C.
A. J. Cronin
A. J. Cronin was a Scottish physician-turned-novelist best known for his popular, socially conscious works such as "The Citadel" and "The Keys of the Kingdom."
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D.
Dr. William Weir
Dr. William Weir is a central character in the science fiction horror film "Event Horizon," portrayed as the troubled designer of the ill-fated experimental starship whose return from a mysterious journey triggers the movie’s terrifying events.
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E.
Lancelot Hodgkin
Lancelot Hodgkin is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Hodgkin surname, though specific widely known achievements or biographical details are not well documented.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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novelist ⓘ physician ⓘ satirist ⓘ travel writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
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Scotland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1729-10-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1802-01-21 ⓘ |
| describedAs |
18th-century Scottish physician
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18th-century Scottish satirist ⓘ 18th-century Scottish travel writer ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Glasgow ⓘ |
| fatherOf | Sir John Moore ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
literature
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medicine ⓘ satire ⓘ travel writing ⓘ |
| genre |
novel
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satire ⓘ travel literature ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName | Moore ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | John ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
Enlightenment
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linked to:
Age of Enlightenment
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| notableWork |
A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland and Germany
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A View of Society and Manners in Italy ⓘ Zeluco ⓘ |
| notedFor |
influential travel journals
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novel Zeluco ⓘ |
| occupation |
novelist
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physician ⓘ satirist ⓘ travel writer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Scotland
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Stirling ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
England
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Richmond upon Thames ⓘ |
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: John Moore (physician and writer) Description of subject: John Moore was an 18th-century Scottish physician, travel writer, and satirist best known for his novel "Zeluco" and his influential travel journals.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.