Rowland Hill
E191924
Rowland Hill was a British teacher, social reformer, and postal pioneer best known for introducing the modern postal system and the first postage stamp, the Penny Black.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rowland Hill canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1697680 — 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: Rowland Hill Context triple: [Highgate Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, Rowland Hill]
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A.
Henry Hall
Henry Hall is the son of American actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus and musician Brad Hall.
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B.
William Black
William Black is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across various fields, including literature, business, and the arts.
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C.
Monk Lewis
Monk Lewis was the pseudonym of Matthew Gregory Lewis, an English Gothic novelist and dramatist best known for his sensational 1796 novel "The Monk."
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D.
Julius Lankershim
Julius Lankershim was a prominent 19th-century Los Angeles landowner and developer whose holdings and influence helped shape early Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.
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E.
Thomas Hayter
Thomas Hayter was an 18th-century British naval administrator who served in a senior bureaucratic role overseeing Royal Navy affairs.
- 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: Rowland Hill Target entity description: Rowland Hill was a British teacher, social reformer, and postal pioneer best known for introducing the modern postal system and the first postage stamp, the Penny Black.
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A.
Henry Hall
Henry Hall is the son of American actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus and musician Brad Hall.
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B.
William Black
William Black is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across various fields, including literature, business, and the arts.
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C.
Monk Lewis
Monk Lewis was the pseudonym of Matthew Gregory Lewis, an English Gothic novelist and dramatist best known for his sensational 1796 novel "The Monk."
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D.
Julius Lankershim
Julius Lankershim was a prominent 19th-century Los Angeles landowner and developer whose holdings and influence helped shape early Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.
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E.
Thomas Hayter
Thomas Hayter was an 18th-century British naval administrator who served in a senior bureaucratic role overseeing Royal Navy affairs.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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inventor ⓘ postal reformer ⓘ schoolteacher ⓘ social reformer ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Highgate Cemetery, London
ⓘ
surface form:
Highgate Cemetery
|
| causeOfDeath | cancer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1795-12-03 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1879-08-27 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | home education ⓘ |
| employer | British Post Office ⓘ |
| familyName | Hill ⓘ |
| father | Thomas Wright Hill ⓘ |
| givenName | Rowland ⓘ |
| hasPart | Penny Black design principles ⓘ |
| heritageDesignation | commemorated on British postage stamps ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Sir ⓘ |
| influenced | global postal systems ⓘ |
| knownFor |
development of the modern postal system in the United Kingdom
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introduction of the Penny Black postage stamp ⓘ introduction of uniform penny postage ⓘ postal reform ⓘ |
| mother | Sarah Lea ⓘ |
| name | Rowland Hill self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork | Post Office Reform: Its Importance and Practicability ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
ⓘ
postal administrator ⓘ schoolmaster ⓘ social reformer ⓘ teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
ⓘ
Kidderminster ⓘ Worcestershire, England ⓘ
surface form:
Worcestershire
|
| placeOfDeath |
England
ⓘ
Hampstead ⓘ London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| positionHeld |
Chief Secretary of the Post Office
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Secretary to the Postmaster General ⓘ |
| residence |
Hampstead
ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Edwin Hill
ⓘ
Matthew Davenport Hill ⓘ |
| spouse | Caroline Pearson ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
How these facts were elicited
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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: Rowland Hill Description of subject: Rowland Hill was a British teacher, social reformer, and postal pioneer best known for introducing the modern postal system and the first postage stamp, the Penny Black.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Highgate Cemetery