John Webber
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John Webber was an 18th-century Swiss-born British artist best known as the official draughtsman on Captain James Cook’s third Pacific voyage, where he produced many influential landscapes and ethnographic illustrations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Webber canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1996339 — 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: John Webber Context triple: [Third voyage of James Cook, includedPerson, John Webber]
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A.
John Brett
John Brett was a 19th-century British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his highly detailed landscapes and maritime scenes.
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B.
Paul Webb
Paul Webb is a screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the historical drama film "Selma" (2014), which chronicles a pivotal chapter in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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C.
Kenneth Dayes
Kenneth Dayes is a musician best known as a member of the Jamaican roots reggae band Culture.
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D.
Robert Harper
Robert Harper was an 18th-century millwright and early settler whose establishment of a ferry and town at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers led to the community later known as Harpers Ferry, West Virginia being named in his honor.
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E.
Adrian Biddle
Adrian Biddle was a British cinematographer known for his visually striking work on films such as "Aliens," "Thelma & Louise," and "The Mummy."
- 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: John Webber Target entity description: John Webber was an 18th-century Swiss-born British artist best known as the official draughtsman on Captain James Cook’s third Pacific voyage, where he produced many influential landscapes and ethnographic illustrations.
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A.
John Brett
John Brett was a 19th-century British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for his highly detailed landscapes and maritime scenes.
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B.
Paul Webb
Paul Webb is a screenwriter best known for writing the screenplay for the historical drama film "Selma" (2014), which chronicles a pivotal chapter in the U.S. civil rights movement.
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C.
Kenneth Dayes
Kenneth Dayes is a musician best known as a member of the Jamaican roots reggae band Culture.
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D.
Robert Harper
Robert Harper was an 18th-century millwright and early settler whose establishment of a ferry and town at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers led to the community later known as Harpers Ferry, West Virginia being named in his honor.
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E.
Adrian Biddle
Adrian Biddle was a British cinematographer known for his visually striking work on films such as "Aliens," "Thelma & Louise," and "The Mummy."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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Swiss person ⓘ artist ⓘ draughtsman ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| artMovement | 18th-century British art ⓘ |
| birthName | Johann Weber ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
St Anne’s Church, Soho, London
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surface form:
St Anne's Church, Soho
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| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| commissionedBy |
Admiralty (United Kingdom)
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surface form:
British Admiralty
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| countryOfBirth | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1751-10-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1793-04-29 ⓘ |
| employer | Royal Navy ⓘ |
| exhibitedAt | Royal Academy of Arts ⓘ |
| father | Abraham Weber ⓘ |
| fatherOccupation | sculptor ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
ethnographic illustration
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landscape art ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| influenced | European perceptions of the Pacific ⓘ |
| knownFor |
ethnographic depictions of Pacific peoples
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landscape paintings from the Pacific ⓘ official draughtsman on James Cook's third Pacific voyage ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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German ⓘ |
| name | John Webber self-link ⓘ |
| nationality |
British
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Swiss ⓘ |
| notableWorkType |
landscape drawings
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portraits of Pacific Islanders ⓘ topographical views ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
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draughtsman ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| placeOfDeath |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| servedOnShip | HMS Resolution ⓘ |
| servedUnder | James Cook ⓘ |
| traveledTo |
Alaska
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Hawaii ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ Pacific Northwest ⓘ Tahiti ⓘ |
| voyageEndYear | 1780 ⓘ |
| voyageStartYear | 1776 ⓘ |
| workedOn |
Third voyage of James Cook
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surface form:
James Cook's third voyage of discovery
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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: John Webber Description of subject: John Webber was an 18th-century Swiss-born British artist best known as the official draughtsman on Captain James Cook’s third Pacific voyage, where he produced many influential landscapes and ethnographic illustrations.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.