Jack Sheppard
E166400
Jack Sheppard was a notorious early 18th-century English thief and prison-breaker whose daring escapes made him a legendary folk hero.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Jack Sheppard canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1438888 — 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: Jack Sheppard Context triple: [Macheath, inspiredBy, Jack Sheppard]
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A.
William Good
William Good was a 17th-century Massachusetts farmer best known as the husband of Sarah Good, one of the first women accused and executed during the Salem witch trials.
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B.
Henry Tucker
Henry Tucker was a Bermudian politician who became the territory's first premier and played a key role in modernizing its political and economic landscape.
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C.
Lucius Mason
Lucius Mason is the principled and determined young heir whose legal struggle over his inheritance drives much of the plot in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Orley Farm."
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D.
Henry Hall
Henry Hall is the son of American actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus and musician Brad Hall.
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E.
William Wilson
William Wilson was a Scottish artist renowned for his stained glass, printmaking, and architectural sculpture in the mid-20th century.
- 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: Jack Sheppard Target entity description: Jack Sheppard was a notorious early 18th-century English thief and prison-breaker whose daring escapes made him a legendary folk hero.
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A.
William Good
William Good was a 17th-century Massachusetts farmer best known as the husband of Sarah Good, one of the first women accused and executed during the Salem witch trials.
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B.
Henry Tucker
Henry Tucker was a Bermudian politician who became the territory's first premier and played a key role in modernizing its political and economic landscape.
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C.
Lucius Mason
Lucius Mason is the principled and determined young heir whose legal struggle over his inheritance drives much of the plot in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Orley Farm."
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D.
Henry Hall
Henry Hall is the son of American actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus and musician Brad Hall.
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E.
William Wilson
William Wilson was a Scottish artist renowned for his stained glass, printmaking, and architectural sculpture in the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Jack Sheppard Description of subject: Jack Sheppard was a notorious early 18th-century English thief and prison-breaker whose daring escapes made him a legendary folk hero.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.