Henry Lincoln
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Henry Lincoln was a British screenwriter and author best known for his work on "Doctor Who" and for co-writing the controversial book "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry Lincoln canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2008453 — 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: Henry Lincoln Context triple: [Midas Run, screenwriter, Henry Lincoln]
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A.
Robert Todd Lincoln
Robert Todd Lincoln was the eldest son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, who became a prominent lawyer, businessman, and statesman, serving as Secretary of War and U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom.
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B.
Thomas "Tad" Lincoln
Thomas "Tad" Lincoln was the youngest and famously mischievous son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, remembered for his close, affectionate relationship with his father during the Civil War years.
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C.
William Wallace Lincoln
William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln was the third son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, remembered for his intelligence, charm, and his early death in the White House at age 11.
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D.
Edward Baker Lincoln
Edward Baker Lincoln was the second son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, remembered for his early death in childhood before his father’s presidency.
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E.
Jesse Root Grant
Jesse Root Grant was an American tanner and businessman best known as the father of U.S. Civil War general and 18th President Ulysses S. Grant.
- 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: Henry Lincoln Target entity description: Henry Lincoln was a British screenwriter and author best known for his work on "Doctor Who" and for co-writing the controversial book "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail."
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A.
Robert Todd Lincoln
Robert Todd Lincoln was the eldest son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, who became a prominent lawyer, businessman, and statesman, serving as Secretary of War and U.S. Minister to the United Kingdom.
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B.
Thomas "Tad" Lincoln
Thomas "Tad" Lincoln was the youngest and famously mischievous son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, remembered for his close, affectionate relationship with his father during the Civil War years.
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C.
William Wallace Lincoln
William Wallace "Willie" Lincoln was the third son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, remembered for his intelligence, charm, and his early death in the White House at age 11.
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D.
Edward Baker Lincoln
Edward Baker Lincoln was the second son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, remembered for his early death in childhood before his father’s presidency.
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E.
Jesse Root Grant
Jesse Root Grant was an American tanner and businessman best known as the father of U.S. Civil War general and 18th President Ulysses S. Grant.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| basedIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coAuthor |
Michael Baigent
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Richard Leigh ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
conspiracy theories
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popular history ⓘ pseudohistory ⓘ television ⓘ |
| genre |
conspiracy literature
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historical speculation ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ science fiction ⓘ |
| hasWrittenAbout |
Christian history
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European history ⓘ religious relics ⓘ secret societies ⓘ |
| influenced | popular theories about Jesus and the bloodline hypothesis ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
co-authoring The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
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writing for the television series Doctor Who ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Doctor Who
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Holy Blood, Holy Grail ⓘ The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail ⓘ The Messianic Legacy ⓘ The Shadow of the Templars ⓘ |
| occupation |
actor
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author ⓘ documentary filmmaker ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ television writer ⓘ |
| subjectOf | controversy over historical claims in The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail ⓘ |
| workSubject |
Holy Grail
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Knights Templar ⓘ Priory of Sion ⓘ Rennes-le-Château mystery ⓘ |
| wroteEpisodeFor |
Doctor Who: The Abominable Snowmen
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Doctor Who: The Dominators ⓘ Doctor Who: The Web of Fear ⓘ |
| wroteFor | BBC ⓘ |
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: Henry Lincoln Description of subject: Henry Lincoln was a British screenwriter and author best known for his work on "Doctor Who" and for co-writing the controversial book "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail."
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart