Pelham Humfrey
E303853
Pelham Humfrey was a 17th-century English composer and singer, known for his influential sacred music and as an early master in the Restoration-era Chapel Royal.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Pelham Humfrey canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2288623 — 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: Pelham Humfrey Context triple: [Master of the Children, notableOfficeHolder, Pelham Humfrey]
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A.
Cecil Upshaw
Cecil Upshaw was an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher, best known for his years with the Atlanta Braves in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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B.
Clarence Rivers
Clarence Rivers was an influential American Catholic priest, composer, and liturgist known for pioneering the integration of African-American musical traditions into Catholic worship.
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C.
Montgomery Brewster
Montgomery Brewster is the hapless minor-league baseball player who must spend a vast inheritance under strict conditions in the comedy film "Brewster's Millions."
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D.
James H. R. Cromwell
James H. R. Cromwell was an American diplomat and politician who served as U.S. Ambassador to Canada and was notably married to heiress Doris Duke.
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E.
Dudley Field Malone
Dudley Field Malone was an American lawyer, politician, and civil liberties advocate best known for his role on the defense team in the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial challenging laws against teaching evolution.
- 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: Pelham Humfrey Target entity description: Pelham Humfrey was a 17th-century English composer and singer, known for his influential sacred music and as an early master in the Restoration-era Chapel Royal.
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A.
Cecil Upshaw
Cecil Upshaw was an American Major League Baseball relief pitcher, best known for his years with the Atlanta Braves in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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B.
Clarence Rivers
Clarence Rivers was an influential American Catholic priest, composer, and liturgist known for pioneering the integration of African-American musical traditions into Catholic worship.
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C.
Montgomery Brewster
Montgomery Brewster is the hapless minor-league baseball player who must spend a vast inheritance under strict conditions in the comedy film "Brewster's Millions."
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D.
James H. R. Cromwell
James H. R. Cromwell was an American diplomat and politician who served as U.S. Ambassador to Canada and was notably married to heiress Doris Duke.
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E.
Dudley Field Malone
Dudley Field Malone was an American lawyer, politician, and civil liberties advocate best known for his role on the defense team in the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial challenging laws against teaching evolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Baroque composer
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English composer ⓘ chorister ⓘ composer ⓘ human ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| basedIn |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Chapel Royal ⓘ |
| employer | Chapel Royal ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
church music
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sacred music ⓘ vocal music ⓘ |
| genre |
anthem
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church music ⓘ sacred music ⓘ |
| hasOccupationRole |
court musician
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teacher of choirboys ⓘ |
| influenced |
Henry Purcell
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John Blow ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | English Baroque ⓘ |
| notableFor |
development of English verse anthem
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early master of Restoration Chapel Royal style ⓘ expressive sacred anthems ⓘ |
| notableStudent | Henry Purcell ⓘ |
| notableWork |
By the waters of Babylon
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Have mercy upon me, O God ⓘ Like as the hart ⓘ Lord, I have sinned ⓘ O Lord my God ⓘ O Lord rebuke me not ⓘ O Lord, I am not high-minded ⓘ Out of the depths ⓘ
surface form:
O Lord, how long wilt thou be angry
O Lord, my God, hearken unto the prayer ⓘ O give thanks unto the Lord ⓘ |
| occupation |
church musician
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composer ⓘ singer ⓘ |
| partOf | Restoration-era Chapel Royal tradition ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Gentleman of the Chapel Royal
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Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal ⓘ |
| religion |
Anglicanism (broadly)
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surface form:
Anglicanism
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| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| style | Restoration Baroque ⓘ |
| usesInstrument | voice ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Chapel Royal
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surface form:
Chapel Royal, London
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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: Pelham Humfrey Description of subject: Pelham Humfrey was a 17th-century English composer and singer, known for his influential sacred music and as an early master in the Restoration-era Chapel Royal.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.