John A. T. Robinson
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John A. T. Robinson was a 20th-century Anglican bishop and theologian best known for his influential and controversial work "Honest to God," which popularized radical and existential approaches to Christian theology.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John A. T. Robinson canonical | 3 |
| John Arthur Thomas Robinson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4930562 — 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 A. T. Robinson Context triple: [Paul Tillich, hasInfluenced, John A. T. Robinson]
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George Edward Dobson
George Edward Dobson was a 19th-century Irish zoologist and surgeon known for his influential work on bats and insectivorous mammals.
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B.
J. F. Rutherford
J. F. Rutherford was the second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and a key figure in shaping the doctrines and organizational structure of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the early 20th century.
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C.
John Wheelwright
John Wheelwright was a 17th-century Puritan clergyman and religious dissenter known for his role in the Antinomian Controversy and for establishing early settlements in New England.
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D.
Alan J. W. Bell
Alan J. W. Bell is a British television producer and director best known for his long-running work on the BBC comedy series "Last of the Summer Wine."
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E.
Keith Ward
Keith Ward is a music video director best known for directing the video for Brandy's hit single "I Wanna Be Down."
- 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 A. T. Robinson Target entity description: John A. T. Robinson was a 20th-century Anglican bishop and theologian best known for his influential and controversial work "Honest to God," which popularized radical and existential approaches to Christian theology.
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A.
George Edward Dobson
George Edward Dobson was a 19th-century Irish zoologist and surgeon known for his influential work on bats and insectivorous mammals.
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B.
J. F. Rutherford
J. F. Rutherford was the second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and a key figure in shaping the doctrines and organizational structure of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the early 20th century.
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C.
John Wheelwright
John Wheelwright was a 17th-century Puritan clergyman and religious dissenter known for his role in the Antinomian Controversy and for establishing early settlements in New England.
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D.
Alan J. W. Bell
Alan J. W. Bell is a British television producer and director best known for his long-running work on the BBC comedy series "Last of the Summer Wine."
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E.
Keith Ward
Keith Ward is a music video director best known for directing the video for Brandy's hit single "I Wanna Be Down."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 A. T. Robinson Description of subject: John A. T. Robinson was a 20th-century Anglican bishop and theologian best known for his influential and controversial work "Honest to God," which popularized radical and existential approaches to Christian theology.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: John A. T. Robinson