The Eagle and Child pub
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The Eagle and Child pub is a historic Oxford public house famed as the meeting place of the Inklings literary group, which included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| The Eagle and Child pub canonical | 2 |
| commemorated at The Eagle and Child pub | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4235326 — 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: The Eagle and Child pub Context triple: [St Giles, Oxford, hasPart, The Eagle and Child pub]
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A.
Red Lion Inn
The Red Lion Inn is a historic New England hotel and tavern in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, renowned for its colonial charm and long-standing role as a Berkshires landmark.
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B.
The Haunch of Venison pub
The Haunch of Venison pub is a historic, centuries-old public house in Salisbury, England, renowned for its medieval architecture, atmospheric interior, and local legends.
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C.
Hog’s Head Inn
Hog’s Head Inn is a shabby, somewhat seedy pub in Hogsmeade that serves as a discreet meeting place for secretive and pivotal events in the Harry Potter series.
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D.
Jug Tavern
Jug Tavern was the former name of the city now known as Winder in northeastern Georgia, historically a small railroad and trading community.
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E.
The King’s Arms pub
The King’s Arms pub is a traditional village public house located in Shouldham, England, serving as a local social and dining hub.
- 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: The Eagle and Child pub Target entity description: The Eagle and Child pub is a historic Oxford public house famed as the meeting place of the Inklings literary group, which included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.
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A.
Red Lion Inn
The Red Lion Inn is a historic New England hotel and tavern in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, renowned for its colonial charm and long-standing role as a Berkshires landmark.
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B.
The Haunch of Venison pub
The Haunch of Venison pub is a historic, centuries-old public house in Salisbury, England, renowned for its medieval architecture, atmospheric interior, and local legends.
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C.
Hog’s Head Inn
Hog’s Head Inn is a shabby, somewhat seedy pub in Hogsmeade that serves as a discreet meeting place for secretive and pivotal events in the Harry Potter series.
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D.
Jug Tavern
Jug Tavern was the former name of the city now known as Winder in northeastern Georgia, historically a small railroad and trading community.
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E.
The King’s Arms pub
The King’s Arms pub is a traditional village public house located in Shouldham, England, serving as a local social and dining hub.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historic building
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pub ⓘ public house ⓘ tourist attraction ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | traditional English pub ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Bird and Baby
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Bird and Baby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
Buildings and structures in Oxford
ⓘ
Literary landmarks in England ⓘ Pubs in Oxford ⓘ |
| hasClientele |
academics
ⓘ
students ⓘ tourists ⓘ |
| hasCulturalAssociation |
The Chronicles of Narnia
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
The Lord of the Rings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFeature |
Inklings memorabilia
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wood-panelled interior ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalRole | regular meeting place of the Inklings in the mid-20th century ⓘ |
| hasNameOrigin | traditional English pub sign imagery of an eagle and a child ⓘ |
| hasNotablePatron |
C. S. Lewis
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charles Williams NERFINISHED ⓘ J. R. R. Tolkien NERFINISHED ⓘ Owen Barfield NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSignificance | important site in 20th-century English literature ⓘ |
| hasSubject | Inklings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heritage | literary heritage ⓘ |
| knownFor |
association with the Inklings
ⓘ
being a meeting place of C. S. Lewis ⓘ being a meeting place of J. R. R. Tolkien ⓘ literary history ⓘ |
| languageOfSignage | English ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
England
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Oxford ⓘ Oxfordshire ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| near |
Regent’s Park College, Oxford
NERFINISHED
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St John’s College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| operatedAs | public house serving food and drink ⓘ |
| partOf | Oxford literary landmarks ⓘ |
| patron | Inklings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| streetAddress | 49 St Giles' ⓘ |
| usedFor |
literary meetings
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social gatherings ⓘ |
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: The Eagle and Child pub Description of subject: The Eagle and Child pub is a historic Oxford public house famed as the meeting place of the Inklings literary group, which included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.