Charles Barrington
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Charles Barrington was an Irish mountaineer best known for leading the first successful ascent of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps in 1858.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Barrington canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5250422 — 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: Charles Barrington Context triple: [Eiger, firstAscentBy, Charles Barrington]
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A.
Jason Flemyng
Jason Flemyng is an English actor known for his character roles in films such as "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," "Snatch," and various Hollywood and British productions.
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B.
John Charlton
John Charlton, better known as Jack Charlton, was an English footballer and World Cup–winning defender for Leeds United and the England national team who later became a successful manager, notably of the Republic of Ireland.
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C.
John Ashton
John Ashton is an American character actor best known for his tough, often blue-collar roles in crime and action films such as "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Midnight Run."
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D.
Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison was an American public official who served as the first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury under President George Washington, helping to establish the young nation’s financial administration.
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E.
Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison was an early husband of Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer, who later became known as the wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
- 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: Charles Barrington Target entity description: Charles Barrington was an Irish mountaineer best known for leading the first successful ascent of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps in 1858.
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A.
Jason Flemyng
Jason Flemyng is an English actor known for his character roles in films such as "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," "Snatch," and various Hollywood and British productions.
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B.
John Charlton
John Charlton, better known as Jack Charlton, was an English footballer and World Cup–winning defender for Leeds United and the England national team who later became a successful manager, notably of the Republic of Ireland.
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C.
John Ashton
John Ashton is an American character actor best known for his tough, often blue-collar roles in crime and action films such as "Beverly Hills Cop" and "Midnight Run."
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D.
Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison was an American public official who served as the first Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury under President George Washington, helping to establish the young nation’s financial administration.
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E.
Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison was an early husband of Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer, who later became known as the wife of physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish person
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human ⓘ mountaineer ⓘ |
| burialPlace | St. Paul’s Churchyard, Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climbedMountain | Eiger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| climbingPartner |
Christian Almer
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Peter Bohren NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfClimb | Switzerland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1834 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1901 ⓘ |
| firstAscentDate | 1858-08-11 ⓘ |
| firstAscentOf | Eiger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstAscentYear | 1858 ⓘ |
| inspiredBy | view of the Eiger from Interlaken ⓘ |
| knownFor |
climbing in the Swiss Alps
ⓘ
leading the first successful ascent of the Eiger ⓘ |
| ledExpedition | first ascent of the Eiger ⓘ |
| mountainRangeClimbed | Bernese Alps NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Charles Barrington NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | reached the summit of the Eiger on 11 August 1858 ⓘ |
| notableWork | first ascent of the Eiger ⓘ |
| occupation |
merchant
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mountaineer ⓘ |
| organizedEvent |
foot races in Ireland
ⓘ
horse races in Ireland ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| reasonForNotClimbingMoreAlps | lack of money ⓘ |
| residence | Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sport | mountaineering ⓘ |
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: Charles Barrington Description of subject: Charles Barrington was an Irish mountaineer best known for leading the first successful ascent of the Eiger in the Swiss Alps in 1858.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Eiger