John Liddell
E731758
John Liddell is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Liddell.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Liddell canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8380815 — 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: John Liddell Context triple: [Liddell, hasNotableBearer, John Liddell]
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A.
St. John Liddell
St. John Liddell was a 19th-century American planter and Confederate brigadier general from Louisiana, known for his role in the Civil War and his death in a long-running family feud.
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B.
John North
John North was an English nobleman and politician of the North family, active in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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C.
Thomas Heath
Thomas Heath was a British mathematician and classical scholar best known for his influential translations and historical studies of ancient Greek mathematics, particularly the works of Euclid and Archimedes.
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D.
Augustus Harris
Augustus Harris was a prominent 19th-century British theatre impresario and producer, best known for revitalizing London's Drury Lane Theatre with lavish pantomimes and grand productions.
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E.
Lucian Johnston
Lucian Johnston is a film editor best known for his work on the acclaimed horror drama "Midsommar."
- 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: John Liddell Target entity description: John Liddell is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Liddell.
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A.
St. John Liddell
St. John Liddell was a 19th-century American planter and Confederate brigadier general from Louisiana, known for his role in the Civil War and his death in a long-running family feud.
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B.
John North
John North was an English nobleman and politician of the North family, active in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
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C.
Thomas Heath
Thomas Heath was a British mathematician and classical scholar best known for his influential translations and historical studies of ancient Greek mathematics, particularly the works of Euclid and Archimedes.
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D.
Augustus Harris
Augustus Harris was a prominent 19th-century British theatre impresario and producer, best known for revitalizing London's Drury Lane Theatre with lavish pantomimes and grand productions.
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E.
Lucian Johnston
Lucian Johnston is a film editor best known for his work on the acclaimed horror drama "Midsommar."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (6)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| familyName | Liddell ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Liddell ⓘ |
| name | John Liddell ⓘ |
| notability | prominent bearer of the surname Liddell ⓘ |
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: John Liddell Description of subject: John Liddell is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Liddell.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.