John Bellingham
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John Bellingham was a British merchant best known for assassinating Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in 1812, the only successful assassination of a British prime minister.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Bellingham canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T539577 — 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: John Bellingham Context triple: [Spencer Perceval, killedBy, John Bellingham]
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A.
Michael O’Dwyer
Michael O’Dwyer was a British colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor of Punjab and became infamous for endorsing the brutal repression that culminated in the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
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B.
George Atzerodt
George Atzerodt was a German-born conspirator in John Wilkes Booth’s plot who was assigned to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson during the Lincoln assassination conspiracy.
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C.
Arthur Kill
Arthur Kill is a tidal strait between Staten Island, New York, and New Jersey that serves as a major industrial and shipping waterway in the New York–New Jersey harbor area.
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D.
Munir Sirhan
Munir Sirhan is best known as the brother of Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
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E.
Mary Surratt
Mary Surratt was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
- 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: John Bellingham Target entity description: John Bellingham was a British merchant best known for assassinating Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in 1812, the only successful assassination of a British prime minister.
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A.
Michael O’Dwyer
Michael O’Dwyer was a British colonial administrator who served as Lieutenant Governor of Punjab and became infamous for endorsing the brutal repression that culminated in the 1919 Jallianwala Bagh massacre.
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B.
George Atzerodt
George Atzerodt was a German-born conspirator in John Wilkes Booth’s plot who was assigned to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson during the Lincoln assassination conspiracy.
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C.
Arthur Kill
Arthur Kill is a tidal strait between Staten Island, New York, and New Jersey that serves as a major industrial and shipping waterway in the New York–New Jersey harbor area.
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D.
Munir Sirhan
Munir Sirhan is best known as the brother of Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
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E.
Mary Surratt
Mary Surratt was an American boardinghouse owner who became the first woman executed by the U.S. federal government for her role in the conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: John Bellingham Description of subject: John Bellingham was a British merchant best known for assassinating Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in 1812, the only successful assassination of a British prime minister.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
execution of John Bellingham
subject surface form:
assassination of Spencer Perceval