James Hodgkin
E370213
James Hodgkin is a relatively obscure individual whose primary current notability appears to stem from sharing the Hodgkin surname rather than from widely documented independent achievements.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Hodgkin canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3342935 — 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: James Hodgkin Context triple: [Hodgkin, hasNotableBearer, James Hodgkin]
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A.
Christopher Hodgkin
Christopher Hodgkin is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Hodgkin surname, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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B.
David Hodgkin
David Hodgkin is a relatively obscure individual whose primary noted distinction is sharing the Hodgkin surname associated with the historically significant Hodgkin family name.
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C.
Peter Hodgkin
Peter Hodgkin is a notable individual who shares the Hodgkin surname, which is associated with several distinguished figures in science and academia.
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D.
Jonathan Hodgkin
Jonathan Hodgkin is a British biologist and geneticist known for his research on the genetics, development, and behavior of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans.
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E.
William Dowdeswell
William Dowdeswell was an 18th-century British Whig politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and was a leading figure in the Rockingham Whig faction.
- 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: James Hodgkin Target entity description: James Hodgkin is a relatively obscure individual whose primary current notability appears to stem from sharing the Hodgkin surname rather than from widely documented independent achievements.
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A.
Christopher Hodgkin
Christopher Hodgkin is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the Hodgkin surname, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
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B.
David Hodgkin
David Hodgkin is a relatively obscure individual whose primary noted distinction is sharing the Hodgkin surname associated with the historically significant Hodgkin family name.
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C.
Peter Hodgkin
Peter Hodgkin is a notable individual who shares the Hodgkin surname, which is associated with several distinguished figures in science and academia.
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D.
Jonathan Hodgkin
Jonathan Hodgkin is a British biologist and geneticist known for his research on the genetics, development, and behavior of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans.
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E.
William Dowdeswell
William Dowdeswell was an 18th-century British Whig politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and was a leading figure in the Rockingham Whig faction.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (3)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| familyName | Hodgkin ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
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: James Hodgkin Description of subject: James Hodgkin is a relatively obscure individual whose primary current notability appears to stem from sharing the Hodgkin surname rather than from widely documented independent achievements.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.