Alastair Redfern
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Alastair Redfern is an Anglican bishop and theologian who has served in senior roles within the Church of England, including as Bishop of Woolwich and later Bishop of Derby.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alastair Redfern canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6621703 — 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: Alastair Redfern Context triple: [Bishop of Woolwich, titleHeldBy, Alastair Redfern]
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A.
Alastair Stewart
Alastair Stewart is a British journalist and long-serving television news presenter best known for his work with ITN and ITV News.
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B.
John Brett
John Brett was a 19th-century British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his highly detailed landscapes and maritime scenes.
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C.
Stephen Pycroft
Stephen Pycroft is a British businessman best known as the founder of the construction and consultancy company Mace Group.
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D.
Geoffrey Haslam
Geoffrey Haslam is a record producer best known for his work on Bette Midler’s debut album "The Divine Miss M."
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E.
Pierre Glendinning
Pierre Glendinning is the conflicted young aristocratic hero of Herman Melville’s novel "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities," whose idealism and psychological turmoil drive the book’s exploration of identity, morality, and madness.
- 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: Alastair Redfern Target entity description: Alastair Redfern is an Anglican bishop and theologian who has served in senior roles within the Church of England, including as Bishop of Woolwich and later Bishop of Derby.
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A.
Alastair Stewart
Alastair Stewart is a British journalist and long-serving television news presenter best known for his work with ITN and ITV News.
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B.
John Brett
John Brett was a 19th-century British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his highly detailed landscapes and maritime scenes.
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C.
Stephen Pycroft
Stephen Pycroft is a British businessman best known as the founder of the construction and consultancy company Mace Group.
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D.
Geoffrey Haslam
Geoffrey Haslam is a record producer best known for his work on Bette Midler’s debut album "The Divine Miss M."
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E.
Pierre Glendinning
Pierre Glendinning is the conflicted young aristocratic hero of Herman Melville’s novel "Pierre; or, The Ambiguities," whose idealism and psychological turmoil drive the book’s exploration of identity, morality, and madness.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican bishop
ⓘ
human ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| affiliation | House of Bishops of the Church of England ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1948-09-01 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Surrey, England
ⓘ
linked to:
Surrey
|
| clergyStatus | retired bishop ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| denomination | Church of England ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Christ Church, Oxford
ⓘ
Westcott House, Cambridge ⓘ |
| endTime | 2018-08-31 ⓘ |
| familyName | Redfern ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
ecclesiology
ⓘ
theology ⓘ |
| givenName |
Alastair
ⓘ
linked to:
Alistair
|
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | The Right Reverend ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Church of England ⓘ |
| notableWork |
writings on Anglican ecclesiology
ⓘ
writings on theology of the Church of England ⓘ |
| occupation |
bishop
ⓘ
priest ⓘ theologian ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Bishop of Derby
ⓘ
Bishop of Woolwich ⓘ diocesan bishop in the Diocese of Derby ⓘ suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Southwark ⓘ |
| religion |
Anglicanism
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglicanism (broadly)
|
| startTime | 2005-01-01 ⓘ |
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: Alastair Redfern Description of subject: Alastair Redfern is an Anglican bishop and theologian who has served in senior roles within the Church of England, including as Bishop of Woolwich and later Bishop of Derby.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.