Uriah Heep
E378551
Uriah Heep is a famously obsequious and manipulative clerk-turned-villain in Charles Dickens’s novel "David Copperfield."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Uriah Heep canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3675818 — 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: Uriah Heep Context triple: [David Copperfield, featuresCharacter, Uriah Heep]
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A.
Whitesnake
Whitesnake is a British hard rock band formed by former Deep Purple singer David Coverdale, best known for their 1980s hits like "Here I Go Again" and "Is This Love."
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B.
Marillion
Marillion is a British progressive rock band, formed in 1979, known for its neo-progressive sound and influential albums like "Misplaced Childhood."
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C.
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath is a pioneering English heavy metal band, widely credited with shaping and defining the genre through their dark, heavy sound and influential albums.
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D.
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull was an English agricultural pioneer best known for inventing the seed drill and advancing modern farming techniques during the early 18th century.
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E.
Bad Company
"Bad Company" is a 1995 American neo-noir thriller film featuring Michael Beach in a supporting role.
- 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: Uriah Heep Target entity description: Uriah Heep is a famously obsequious and manipulative clerk-turned-villain in Charles Dickens’s novel "David Copperfield."
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A.
Whitesnake
Whitesnake is a British hard rock band formed by former Deep Purple singer David Coverdale, best known for their 1980s hits like "Here I Go Again" and "Is This Love."
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B.
Marillion
Marillion is a British progressive rock band, formed in 1979, known for its neo-progressive sound and influential albums like "Misplaced Childhood."
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C.
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath is a pioneering English heavy metal band, widely credited with shaping and defining the genre through their dark, heavy sound and influential albums.
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D.
Jethro Tull
Jethro Tull was an English agricultural pioneer best known for inventing the seed drill and advancing modern farming techniques during the early 18th century.
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E.
Bad Company
"Bad Company" is a 1995 American neo-noir thriller film featuring Michael Beach in a supporting role.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Uriah Heep Description of subject: Uriah Heep is a famously obsequious and manipulative clerk-turned-villain in Charles Dickens’s novel "David Copperfield."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.