Thomas Anshelm
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Thomas Anshelm was an early 16th-century German printer and publisher known for producing important humanist and theological works during the Renaissance.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Anshelm canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5261081 — 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: Thomas Anshelm Context triple: [De arte cabalistica, publisher, Thomas Anshelm]
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A.
Anselm of Canterbury
Anselm of Canterbury was an 11th-century Benedictine monk, philosopher, and Archbishop of Canterbury, renowned as a foundational figure in scholastic theology and for formulating influential arguments about God’s existence and the nature of salvation.
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B.
Stephen Langton
Stephen Langton was a medieval Archbishop of Canterbury and influential churchman who played a key role in the events leading to Magna Carta and the political struggles of King John’s reign.
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C.
Anselme
Anselme is a wealthy, generous, and somewhat mysterious nobleman in Molière’s comedy "L’Avare," serving as a foil to the miserly protagonist Harpagon.
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D.
Saint Bruno of Cologne
Saint Bruno of Cologne was an 11th-century German Catholic priest and theologian who founded the Carthusian Order, known for its strict contemplative monastic life.
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E.
Hugh of Cluny
Hugh of Cluny was an influential 11th-century Benedictine abbot and church reformer who greatly expanded Cluny Abbey’s power and prestige across medieval Europe.
- 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: Thomas Anshelm Target entity description: Thomas Anshelm was an early 16th-century German printer and publisher known for producing important humanist and theological works during the Renaissance.
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A.
Anselm of Canterbury
Anselm of Canterbury was an 11th-century Benedictine monk, philosopher, and Archbishop of Canterbury, renowned as a foundational figure in scholastic theology and for formulating influential arguments about God’s existence and the nature of salvation.
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B.
Stephen Langton
Stephen Langton was a medieval Archbishop of Canterbury and influential churchman who played a key role in the events leading to Magna Carta and the political struggles of King John’s reign.
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C.
Anselme
Anselme is a wealthy, generous, and somewhat mysterious nobleman in Molière’s comedy "L’Avare," serving as a foil to the miserly protagonist Harpagon.
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D.
Saint Bruno of Cologne
Saint Bruno of Cologne was an 11th-century German Catholic priest and theologian who founded the Carthusian Order, known for its strict contemplative monastic life.
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E.
Hugh of Cluny
Hugh of Cluny was an influential 11th-century Benedictine abbot and church reformer who greatly expanded Cluny Abbey’s power and prestige across medieval Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
German printer
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person ⓘ printer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 16th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Christian theology
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humanism ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| era |
Early modern period
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linked to:
Early Modern period
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| floruit | early 16th century ⓘ |
| genre |
humanist literature
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theological literature ⓘ |
| knownFor |
printing humanist works
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printing theological works ⓘ |
| languageOfPublishedWorks |
German
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Latin ⓘ |
| movement | Renaissance ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| notablePeriod | Renaissance ⓘ |
| occupation |
printer
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publisher ⓘ |
| printedForm |
books
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pamphlets ⓘ |
| typeOfPublisher | Renaissance humanist printer ⓘ |
| workField |
book printing
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publishing ⓘ |
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: Thomas Anshelm Description of subject: Thomas Anshelm was an early 16th-century German printer and publisher known for producing important humanist and theological works during the Renaissance.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.