Robert Barker
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Robert Barker was a 17th-century English royal printer best known for printing the first edition of the King James Bible.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert Barker canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T157789 — 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: Robert Barker Context triple: [King James Version, publisher, Robert Barker]
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A.
Lloyd Bryce
Lloyd Bryce was an American editor, politician, and diplomat best known for his influential leadership of the North American Review in the late 19th century.
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B.
John Parkinson
John Parkinson was a prominent early 20th-century architect known for shaping the skyline of Los Angeles with landmark civic and commercial buildings.
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C.
Caspar Fleming
Caspar Fleming was the only son of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and his wife Ann, whose early death deeply affected his parents' later lives.
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D.
Francis Cooke
Francis Cooke was an English Separatist and early Pilgrim settler who voyaged on the Mayflower and became one of the founders of Plymouth Colony in 1620.
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E.
John Gilroy
John Gilroy is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
- 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: Robert Barker Target entity description: Robert Barker was a 17th-century English royal printer best known for printing the first edition of the King James Bible.
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A.
Lloyd Bryce
Lloyd Bryce was an American editor, politician, and diplomat best known for his influential leadership of the North American Review in the late 19th century.
-
B.
John Parkinson
John Parkinson was a prominent early 20th-century architect known for shaping the skyline of Los Angeles with landmark civic and commercial buildings.
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C.
Caspar Fleming
Caspar Fleming was the only son of James Bond creator Ian Fleming and his wife Ann, whose early death deeply affected his parents' later lives.
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D.
Francis Cooke
Francis Cooke was an English Separatist and early Pilgrim settler who voyaged on the Mayflower and became one of the founders of Plymouth Colony in 1620.
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E.
John Gilroy
John Gilroy is a film editor known for his work on major Hollywood productions, including the science-fiction monster film "Pacific Rim."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English person
ⓘ
person ⓘ printer ⓘ royal printer ⓘ |
| activeIn | 17th century ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 17th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| employer |
English royal household
ⓘ
linked to:
English royal court
|
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | printing ⓘ |
| genre | religious texts ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
printing the first edition of the King James Bible
ⓘ
royal printing in England ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | first edition of the King James Bible ⓘ |
| occupation | printer ⓘ |
| partOf | English book trade ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
King's Printer
ⓘ
linked to:
His Majesty's Stationery Office
royal printer ⓘ |
| printed |
King James Bible
ⓘ
linked to:
King James Version
first edition of the King James Bible ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
| workLocation |
London
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linked to:
London, England
|
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: Robert Barker Description of subject: Robert Barker was a 17th-century English royal printer best known for printing the first edition of the King James Bible.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.