Sir William Worthy
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Sir William Worthy is a central laird-like figure in Allan Ramsay’s pastoral drama "The Gentle Shepherd," representing the benevolent, aristocratic ideal within the play’s Scottish rural setting.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sir William Worthy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7286105 — 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: Sir William Worthy Context triple: [The Gentle Shepherd, hasCharacter, Sir William Worthy]
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A.
Sir Matthew Holworthy
Sir Matthew Holworthy was a 17th-century English merchant and philanthropist known for his substantial benefactions to educational institutions, including Harvard University.
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B.
Sir William Ashburnham
Sir William Ashburnham was an 18th-century British politician and courtier who held senior governmental and royal household positions, including a key financial role in the Royal Navy.
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C.
Sir William Hotham
Sir William Hotham was a British Royal Navy officer and administrator who rose to senior command and later held high-level governmental naval posts in the early 19th century.
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D.
George Wyndham
George Wyndham was a British Conservative politician and influential statesman of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for his role in Irish land reform and his contributions to literature and public life.
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E.
Sir William Fettes
Sir William Fettes was a 19th-century Scottish merchant and philanthropist whose wealth and bequest led to the creation of the prestigious Fettes College in Edinburgh.
- 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: Sir William Worthy Target entity description: Sir William Worthy is a central laird-like figure in Allan Ramsay’s pastoral drama "The Gentle Shepherd," representing the benevolent, aristocratic ideal within the play’s Scottish rural setting.
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A.
Sir Matthew Holworthy
Sir Matthew Holworthy was a 17th-century English merchant and philanthropist known for his substantial benefactions to educational institutions, including Harvard University.
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B.
Sir William Ashburnham
Sir William Ashburnham was an 18th-century British politician and courtier who held senior governmental and royal household positions, including a key financial role in the Royal Navy.
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C.
Sir William Hotham
Sir William Hotham was a British Royal Navy officer and administrator who rose to senior command and later held high-level governmental naval posts in the early 19th century.
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D.
George Wyndham
George Wyndham was a British Conservative politician and influential statesman of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, noted for his role in Irish land reform and his contributions to literature and public life.
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E.
Sir William Fettes
Sir William Fettes was a 19th-century Scottish merchant and philanthropist whose wealth and bequest led to the creation of the prestigious Fettes College in Edinburgh.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
aristocrat
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dramatic character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ laird-like figure ⓘ |
| appearsIn | The Gentle Shepherd ⓘ |
| associatedWithTheme |
benevolent patriarchy
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class relations in Scotland ⓘ rural virtue ⓘ social harmony ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| createdBy | Allan Ramsay ⓘ |
| genreOfWork | pastoral drama ⓘ |
| hasSocialStatus | landed gentry ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
benevolent
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generous ⓘ honourable ⓘ paternalistic ⓘ |
| narrativeFunction |
embodies ideal landlord
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restores social order ⓘ |
| roleInWork |
benevolent aristocratic ideal
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central character ⓘ |
| settingOfActivity | Scottish rural setting ⓘ |
| workLanguage |
English
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Scots ⓘ |
| workPublicationYear | 1725 ⓘ |
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: Sir William Worthy Description of subject: Sir William Worthy is a central laird-like figure in Allan Ramsay’s pastoral drama "The Gentle Shepherd," representing the benevolent, aristocratic ideal within the play’s Scottish rural setting.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.