Gerald Holtom
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Gerald Holtom was a British artist and designer best known for creating the internationally recognized peace symbol used by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Gerald Holtom canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T124648 — 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: Gerald Holtom Context triple: [Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, symbolDesigner, Gerald Holtom]
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A.
Herbert Bayer
Herbert Bayer was an Austrian-American graphic designer, painter, photographer, and influential Bauhaus teacher known for pioneering modernist typography and visual communication.
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B.
Paul Rand
Paul Rand was a pioneering American graphic designer renowned for creating iconic corporate logos and shaping modern visual identity design.
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C.
Claude Auchinleck
Claude Auchinleck was a senior British Army officer and field marshal best known for his leadership of Allied forces in the Middle East during the early stages of World War II.
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D.
Arthur Geoffrey Walker
Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
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E.
Mark Oliphant
Mark Oliphant was an Australian physicist and pioneer in nuclear physics who played a key role in early atomic research and the development of radar and particle accelerators.
- 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: Gerald Holtom Target entity description: Gerald Holtom was a British artist and designer best known for creating the internationally recognized peace symbol used by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
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A.
Herbert Bayer
Herbert Bayer was an Austrian-American graphic designer, painter, photographer, and influential Bauhaus teacher known for pioneering modernist typography and visual communication.
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B.
Paul Rand
Paul Rand was a pioneering American graphic designer renowned for creating iconic corporate logos and shaping modern visual identity design.
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C.
Claude Auchinleck
Claude Auchinleck was a senior British Army officer and field marshal best known for his leadership of Allied forces in the Middle East during the early stages of World War II.
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D.
Arthur Geoffrey Walker
Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
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E.
Mark Oliphant
Mark Oliphant was an Australian physicist and pioneer in nuclear physics who played a key role in early atomic research and the development of radar and particle accelerators.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
artist
ⓘ
graphic designer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| designed |
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
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surface form:
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament symbol
peace symbol ⓘ |
| employer | Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ⓘ |
| familyName | Holtom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
graphic design
ⓘ
visual arts ⓘ |
| genre | symbol design ⓘ |
| givenName | Gerald ⓘ |
| hasCreatedSymbolFor | Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ⓘ |
| hasWorkUsedBy |
anti-war movements
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nuclear disarmament campaigns ⓘ peace movement worldwide ⓘ |
| influenced | international peace iconography ⓘ |
| knownFor |
creating the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament symbol
ⓘ
creating the peace symbol ⓘ |
| movement |
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
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surface form:
anti-nuclear movement
peace movement ⓘ |
| name | Gerald Holtom self-link ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
ⓘ
surface form:
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament symbol
peace symbol ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
ⓘ
designer ⓘ graphic designer ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Gerald Holtom Description of subject: Gerald Holtom was a British artist and designer best known for creating the internationally recognized peace symbol used by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
subject surface form:
peace symbol