Richard Hooker
E243077
Richard Hooker was the pen name of American surgeon and author H. Richard Hornberger, best known for writing the novel that inspired the film and television series M*A*S*H.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Hooker canonical | 7 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2173064 — 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: Richard Hooker Context triple: [MASH, basedOnAuthor, Richard Hooker]
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A.
John Owen
John Owen was a prominent 17th-century English Puritan theologian and pastor known for his influential writings on Reformed doctrine and Christian spirituality.
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B.
Lancelot Andrewes
Lancelot Andrewes was an influential early 17th-century English bishop, theologian, and scholar renowned for his role in shaping Anglican doctrine and contributing to the King James Bible.
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C.
William Perkins
William Perkins was a leading late-16th-century English theologian and preacher whose influential writings helped shape the development and spread of Puritan thought.
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D.
Richard Baxter
Richard Baxter was a prominent 17th-century English Puritan church leader, theologian, and writer best known for works like "The Reformed Pastor" and "The Saints' Everlasting Rest."
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E.
William Ames
William Ames was an influential early 17th-century English Puritan theologian and moral philosopher whose writings helped shape Reformed and Puritan thought in England and New England.
- 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: Richard Hooker Target entity description: Richard Hooker was the pen name of American surgeon and author H. Richard Hornberger, best known for writing the novel that inspired the film and television series M*A*S*H.
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A.
John Owen
John Owen was a prominent 17th-century English Puritan theologian and pastor known for his influential writings on Reformed doctrine and Christian spirituality.
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B.
Lancelot Andrewes
Lancelot Andrewes was an influential early 17th-century English bishop, theologian, and scholar renowned for his role in shaping Anglican doctrine and contributing to the King James Bible.
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C.
William Perkins
William Perkins was a leading late-16th-century English theologian and preacher whose influential writings helped shape the development and spread of Puritan thought.
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D.
Richard Baxter
Richard Baxter was a prominent 17th-century English Puritan church leader, theologian, and writer best known for works like "The Reformed Pastor" and "The Saints' Everlasting Rest."
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E.
William Ames
William Ames was an influential early 17th-century English Puritan theologian and moral philosopher whose writings helped shape Reformed and Puritan thought in England and New England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
author
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film ⓘ novel ⓘ pen name ⓘ person ⓘ surgeon ⓘ television series ⓘ |
| author |
H. Richard Hornberger
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Richard Hooker self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| basedOn |
MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors
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MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| genre | war novel ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
M*A*S*H (TV series)
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MASH ⓘ
surface form:
MASH (film)
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| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
writing the novel that inspired the film and television series M*A*S*H
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writing the novel that inspired the film and television series M*A*S*H ⓘ |
| notableWork |
MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors
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MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors ⓘ |
| occupation |
author
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author ⓘ surgeon ⓘ surgeon ⓘ |
| realName | H. Richard Hornberger ⓘ |
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: Richard Hooker Description of subject: Richard Hooker was the pen name of American surgeon and author H. Richard Hornberger, best known for writing the novel that inspired the film and television series M*A*S*H.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors
subject surface form:
Margaret Houlihan