Thomas Hodgkin
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Thomas Hodgkin was a 19th-century British physician and pathologist best known for first describing the lymphatic cancer that now bears his name, Hodgkin lymphoma.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Hodgkin canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5160959 — 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: Thomas Hodgkin Context triple: [Hodgkin lymphoma, namedAfter, Thomas Hodgkin]
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A.
Thomas Lionel Hodgkin
Thomas Lionel Hodgkin was a British historian and political activist best known for his influential scholarship on African history and his support for anti-colonial movements.
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B.
Timothy Hodgkin
Timothy 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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C.
Henry Theodore Hodgkin
Henry Theodore Hodgkin was a British Quaker physician, missionary, and pacifist leader who co-founded the Fellowship of Reconciliation in the early 20th century.
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D.
John Hodgkin
John Hodgkin was a 19th-century English Quaker lawyer and philanthropist known for his legal scholarship and social reform efforts.
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E.
George Hodgkin
George Hodgkin was a British intelligence officer and colonial administrator known for his service in the Middle East during World War I.
- 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: Thomas Hodgkin Target entity description: Thomas Hodgkin was a 19th-century British physician and pathologist best known for first describing the lymphatic cancer that now bears his name, Hodgkin lymphoma.
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A.
Thomas Lionel Hodgkin
Thomas Lionel Hodgkin was a British historian and political activist best known for his influential scholarship on African history and his support for anti-colonial movements.
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B.
Timothy Hodgkin
Timothy 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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C.
Henry Theodore Hodgkin
Henry Theodore Hodgkin was a British Quaker physician, missionary, and pacifist leader who co-founded the Fellowship of Reconciliation in the early 20th century.
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D.
John Hodgkin
John Hodgkin was a 19th-century English Quaker lawyer and philanthropist known for his legal scholarship and social reform efforts.
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E.
George Hodgkin
George Hodgkin was a British intelligence officer and colonial administrator known for his service in the Middle East during World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
ⓘ
human ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| advocatedFor |
abolition of slavery
ⓘ
public health measures ⓘ rights of indigenous peoples ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Jaffa NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | dysentery ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1798-08-17 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1866-04-05 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
St Thomas' Hospital Medical School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Edinburgh Medical School NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Guy's Hospital NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| eponymOf | Hodgkin lymphoma NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Hodgkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
hematology
ⓘ
medicine ⓘ pathology ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEponym | Hodgkin disease NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | first description of Hodgkin lymphoma ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Royal College of Physicians NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| movement | Quakerism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Thomas Hodgkin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | early work in preventive medicine ⓘ |
| notableStudentOrColleague |
Richard Bright
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Thomas Addison NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | On Some Morbid Appearances of the Absorbent Glands and Spleen NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
pathologist
ⓘ
physician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
London, England
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surface form:
London
Pentonville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Jaffa
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | lecturer in morbid anatomy at Guy's Hospital ⓘ |
| publicationYearOfNotableWork | 1832 ⓘ |
| religiousAffiliation | Religious Society of Friends NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| studied |
lymphatic system
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spleen pathology ⓘ |
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: Thomas Hodgkin Description of subject: Thomas Hodgkin was a 19th-century British physician and pathologist best known for first describing the lymphatic cancer that now bears his name, Hodgkin lymphoma.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.