John Hodgkin
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John Hodgkin was a 19th-century English Quaker lawyer and philanthropist known for his legal scholarship and social reform efforts.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Hodgkin canonical | 2 |
| John Eliot Hodgkin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3342909 — 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 Hodgkin Context triple: [Hodgkin, hasNotableBearer, John Hodgkin]
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A.
John Windsor
John Windsor was the engineer responsible for designing Dublin’s iconic cast-iron Ha'penny Bridge over the River Liffey.
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B.
Nicholas Howard
Nicholas Howard is a member of the British Howard family, known as the son of Conservative politician and former UK Home Secretary Michael Howard.
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C.
Andrew Crocker-Harris
Andrew Crocker-Harris is a strict, emotionally repressed classics teacher at an English public school whose personal and professional crises form the tragic core of Terence Rattigan’s play "The Browning Version."
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D.
Edward Bury
Edward Bury was a 19th-century English locomotive engineer known for designing and supplying early steam engines for pioneering railways, including the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
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E.
Edward Russell
Edward Russell was a key English naval officer and statesman who helped orchestrate the Glorious Revolution as one of the influential conspirators known as the Immortal Seven.
- 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 Hodgkin Target entity description: John Hodgkin was a 19th-century English Quaker lawyer and philanthropist known for his legal scholarship and social reform efforts.
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A.
John Windsor
John Windsor was the engineer responsible for designing Dublin’s iconic cast-iron Ha'penny Bridge over the River Liffey.
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B.
Nicholas Howard
Nicholas Howard is a member of the British Howard family, known as the son of Conservative politician and former UK Home Secretary Michael Howard.
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C.
Andrew Crocker-Harris
Andrew Crocker-Harris is a strict, emotionally repressed classics teacher at an English public school whose personal and professional crises form the tragic core of Terence Rattigan’s play "The Browning Version."
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D.
Edward Bury
Edward Bury was a 19th-century English locomotive engineer known for designing and supplying early steam engines for pioneering railways, including the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
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E.
Edward Russell
Edward Russell was a key English naval officer and statesman who helped orchestrate the Glorious Revolution as one of the influential conspirators known as the Immortal Seven.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Quaker
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human ⓘ lawyer ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ social reformer ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| ideology | social reform ⓘ |
| knownFor |
legal scholarship
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social reform efforts ⓘ |
| movement | Quaker social reform ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableRole |
Quaker lawyer in 19th-century England
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Quaker philanthropist in 19th-century England ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
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legal scholar ⓘ philanthropist ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | England ⓘ |
| religion | Quakerism ⓘ |
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 Hodgkin Description of subject: John Hodgkin was a 19th-century English Quaker lawyer and philanthropist known for his legal scholarship and social reform efforts.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
John Eliot Hodgkin