William Hodges
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William Hodges was an 18th-century English painter and draughtsman best known for his landscape paintings and artworks created during Captain James Cook’s second voyage to the Pacific.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Hodges canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7872501 — 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: William Hodges Context triple: [Hodges, hasNotableBearer, William Hodges]
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A.
Henry Markham
Henry Markham was an American politician who served as the 18th governor of California from 1891 to 1895.
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B.
W. W. Hodkinson
W. W. Hodkinson was an early American film industry pioneer known as the “Father of Film Distribution” for creating the first nationwide movie distribution system and helping establish Paramount Pictures.
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C.
Edward Holcroft
Edward Holcroft is a British actor known for his roles in film and television, including appearances in the Kingsman franchise and the series London Spy.
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D.
Edward Blount
Edward Blount was a prominent early 17th-century London stationer and publisher best known for co-publishing Shakespeare’s First Folio.
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E.
Henry Cooke
Henry Cooke is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Cooke.
- 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: William Hodges Target entity description: William Hodges was an 18th-century English painter and draughtsman best known for his landscape paintings and artworks created during Captain James Cook’s second voyage to the Pacific.
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A.
Henry Markham
Henry Markham was an American politician who served as the 18th governor of California from 1891 to 1895.
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B.
W. W. Hodkinson
W. W. Hodkinson was an early American film industry pioneer known as the “Father of Film Distribution” for creating the first nationwide movie distribution system and helping establish Paramount Pictures.
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C.
Edward Holcroft
Edward Holcroft is a British actor known for his roles in film and television, including appearances in the Kingsman franchise and the series London Spy.
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D.
Edward Blount
Edward Blount was a prominent early 17th-century London stationer and publisher best known for co-publishing Shakespeare’s First Folio.
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E.
Henry Cooke
Henry Cooke is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Cooke.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
18th-century artist
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British artist ⓘ draughtsman ⓘ human ⓘ painter ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | British East India Company NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1744-10-28 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1797-03-06 ⓘ |
| depicted |
Antarctic and sub-Antarctic scenes
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Indian architectural monuments ⓘ New Zealand landscapes ⓘ Pacific Island landscapes ⓘ |
| employer | James Cook NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
drawing
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painting ⓘ |
| genre |
landscape art
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marine art ⓘ topographical painting ⓘ |
| hasInfluenced | later British landscape painters ⓘ |
| hasWorkLocation | Royal Academy of Arts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Royal Academy exhibitors ⓘ |
| movement | Romanticism NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | William Hodges NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
artworks from Captain James Cook’s second Pacific voyage
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early Romantic landscape style ⓘ landscape paintings ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A View of Cape Stephens in Cook’s Straits
NERFINISHED
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A View of Part of the Island of Otaheite NERFINISHED ⓘ The Taj Mahal from the River Jumna NERFINISHED ⓘ View of Matavai Bay, Tahiti NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
draughtsman
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painter ⓘ |
| participantIn | James Cook’s second voyage to the Pacific NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| placeOfDeath | Brixham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| studiedUnder | Richard Wilson NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subjectOf | art historical studies on Cook’s voyages ⓘ |
| workedIn |
India
NERFINISHED
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London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: William Hodges Description of subject: William Hodges was an 18th-century English painter and draughtsman best known for his landscape paintings and artworks created during Captain James Cook’s second voyage to the Pacific.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.