Holtom
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Holtom is an English surname most notably associated with Gerald Holtom, the designer of the internationally recognized peace symbol.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Holtom canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T624886 — 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: Holtom Context triple: [Gerald Holtom, familyName, Holtom]
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A.
Colsterworth
Colsterworth is a village in Lincolnshire, England, best known for its proximity to Woolsthorpe Manor, the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton.
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B.
Harrold
Harrold is a given name and surname, used as a variant spelling of Harold.
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C.
Hylton
Hylton is the defendant in the landmark 1796 U.S. Supreme Court case Ware v. Hylton, which addressed the supremacy of federal treaties over conflicting state laws.
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D.
Hoyte
Hoyte is the first name of Hoyte van Hoytema, a renowned Dutch-Swedish cinematographer known for his work on major films such as "Interstellar" and "Dunkirk."
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E.
Gowland
Gowland is the middle name of Frederick Gowland Hopkins, the English biochemist and Nobel laureate known for his work on vitamins and essential nutrients.
- 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: Holtom Target entity description: Holtom is an English surname most notably associated with Gerald Holtom, the designer of the internationally recognized peace symbol.
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A.
Colsterworth
Colsterworth is a village in Lincolnshire, England, best known for its proximity to Woolsthorpe Manor, the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton.
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B.
Harrold
Harrold is a given name and surname, used as a variant spelling of Harold.
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C.
Hylton
Hylton is the defendant in the landmark 1796 U.S. Supreme Court case Ware v. Hylton, which addressed the supremacy of federal treaties over conflicting state laws.
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D.
Hoyte
Hoyte is the first name of Hoyte van Hoytema, a renowned Dutch-Swedish cinematographer known for his work on major films such as "Interstellar" and "Dunkirk."
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E.
Gowland
Gowland is the middle name of Frederick Gowland Hopkins, the English biochemist and Nobel laureate known for his work on vitamins and essential nutrients.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language surname
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human ⓘ peace emblem ⓘ surname ⓘ symbol ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
CND peace symbol
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surface form:
CND symbol
|
| associatedWith |
Gerald Holtom
ⓘ
peace symbol ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| designed | peace symbol ⓘ |
| designedBy | Gerald Holtom ⓘ |
| familyName | Holtom self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Gerald Holtom ⓘ |
| inception | 1958 ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| nameType | family name ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | design of the peace symbol ⓘ |
| occupation |
artist
ⓘ
designer ⓘ |
| originalUse | Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ⓘ |
| use | international symbol of peace ⓘ |
| usedIn |
English-speaking countries
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
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: Holtom Description of subject: Holtom is an English surname most notably associated with Gerald Holtom, the designer of the internationally recognized peace symbol.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Gerald Holtom