Lord Hoffmann
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Lord Hoffmann is a prominent British jurist who served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in the House of Lords and became one of the most influential judges in modern UK legal history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lord Hoffmann canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1424779 — 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: Lord Hoffmann Context triple: [Trinity Hall, Cambridge, hasAlumni, Lord Hoffmann]
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A.
Herbert Smith
Herbert Smith was a British aircraft designer best known for creating several successful World War I fighter planes for the Sopwith Aviation Company.
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B.
Lord Irwin
Lord Irwin, later known as Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, was a British Conservative politician and statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1926 to 1931 and later as Foreign Secretary during the critical pre–World War II years.
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C.
Hugo Carmody
Hugo Carmody is a charming, somewhat hapless young gentleman from P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories, often embroiled in romantic entanglements and comic misadventures.
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D.
Roy Kirk
Roy Kirk is a fictional character from the Star Trek universe, known for his role in the backstory of the Earth probe Nomad in the original series episode "The Changeling."
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E.
Charles Goldfarb
Charles Goldfarb is a computer scientist best known as the principal inventor of SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language that laid the foundation for HTML and XML.
- 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: Lord Hoffmann Target entity description: Lord Hoffmann is a prominent British jurist who served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in the House of Lords and became one of the most influential judges in modern UK legal history.
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A.
Herbert Smith
Herbert Smith was a British aircraft designer best known for creating several successful World War I fighter planes for the Sopwith Aviation Company.
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B.
Lord Irwin
Lord Irwin, later known as Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, was a British Conservative politician and statesman who served as Viceroy of India from 1926 to 1931 and later as Foreign Secretary during the critical pre–World War II years.
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C.
Hugo Carmody
Hugo Carmody is a charming, somewhat hapless young gentleman from P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories, often embroiled in romantic entanglements and comic misadventures.
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D.
Roy Kirk
Roy Kirk is a fictional character from the Star Trek universe, known for his role in the backstory of the Earth probe Nomad in the original series episode "The Changeling."
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E.
Charles Goldfarb
Charles Goldfarb is a computer scientist best known as the principal inventor of SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup Language that laid the foundation for HTML and XML.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British judge
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human ⓘ jurist ⓘ law lord ⓘ life peer ⓘ |
| awardReceived | life peerage ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Queen’s College, Oxford
NERFINISHED
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The Queen's College, Oxford ⓘ
surface form:
The Queen's College, Oxford (Rhodes Scholar)
University of Cape Town ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
commercial law
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common law ⓘ company law ⓘ human rights law ⓘ trusts law ⓘ |
| ideology |
contextual approach to contract interpretation
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purposive approach to statutory interpretation ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of UK contract law
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development of UK human rights jurisprudence ⓘ development of UK public law ⓘ |
| influencedBy | common law tradition ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalSystem | legal system of England and Wales ⓘ |
| memberOf |
House of Lords
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Judicial Committee of the Privy Council ⓘ
surface form:
Judicial Committee of the House of Lords
Privy Council ⓘ
surface form:
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
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| notableFor |
influence on modern UK legal interpretation
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leading judgments in commercial and company law ⓘ leading judgments on contract interpretation ⓘ leading judgments on human rights and proportionality ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Attorney General’s Reference (No 3 of 1999)
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Bancoult v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (No 2) ⓘ Barlow Clowes International Ltd v Eurotrust International Ltd ⓘ Chartbrook Ltd v Persimmon Homes Ltd ⓘ Investors Compensation Scheme Ltd v West Bromwich Building Society ⓘ Kirby v National Coal Board ⓘ O’Brien v Chief Constable of South Wales Police ⓘ Re B (Children) (Care Proceedings: Standard of Proof) ⓘ Royal Brunei Airlines Sdn Bhd v Tan ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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barrister ⓘ judge ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
High Court judge of England and Wales
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Lord Justice of Appeal ⓘ Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ⓘ Non-permanent judge of the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong ⓘ |
| title |
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
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The Right Honourable ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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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: Lord Hoffmann Description of subject: Lord Hoffmann is a prominent British jurist who served as a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary in the House of Lords and became one of the most influential judges in modern UK legal history.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.