Goldacre
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Goldacre is the surname of Ben Goldacre, a British physician, academic, and science writer known for his work on evidence-based medicine and criticism of pseudoscience.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Goldacre canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8030909 — 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: Goldacre Context triple: [Ben Goldacre, familyName, Goldacre]
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A.
The Naked Civil Servant
The Naked Civil Servant is a 1975 British television film based on Quentin Crisp’s autobiography, renowned for its groundbreaking portrayal of an openly gay man in mid-20th-century England.
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B.
The Cameron Delusion
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C.
Rabble
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D.
The Hill
The Hill is a notable work associated with acclaimed American actor, director, and civil rights activist Ossie Davis.
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E.
The Hill
The Hill is a famous public vantage point overlooking Epsom Downs Racecourse, known for offering free, expansive views of major horse racing events like The Derby.
- 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: Goldacre Target entity description: Goldacre is the surname of Ben Goldacre, a British physician, academic, and science writer known for his work on evidence-based medicine and criticism of pseudoscience.
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A.
The Naked Civil Servant
The Naked Civil Servant is a 1975 British television film based on Quentin Crisp’s autobiography, renowned for its groundbreaking portrayal of an openly gay man in mid-20th-century England.
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B.
The Cameron Delusion
The Cameron Delusion is a political book by British journalist Peter Hitchens that offers a scathing critique of David Cameron’s Conservative Party and its abandonment of traditional conservative principles.
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C.
Rabble
Rabble is one of the individual prints from Francisco Goya’s harrowing anti-war series *The Disasters of War*, depicting the chaos and brutality inflicted on ordinary people.
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D.
The Hill
The Hill is a notable work associated with acclaimed American actor, director, and civil rights activist Ossie Davis.
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E.
The Hill
The Hill is a famous public vantage point overlooking Epsom Downs Racecourse, known for offering free, expansive views of major horse racing events like The Derby.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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physician ⓘ science writer ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | evidence-based medicine ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Ben Goldacre ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Goldacre ⓘ |
| knownFor | criticism of pseudoscience ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| usedBy | Ben Goldacre ⓘ |
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: Goldacre Description of subject: Goldacre is the surname of Ben Goldacre, a British physician, academic, and science writer known for his work on evidence-based medicine and criticism of pseudoscience.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Goldacre