Rathbone
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Rathbone is a surname most famously associated with English actor Basil Rathbone, renowned for his definitive portrayals of Sherlock Holmes in classic films.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Rathbone canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T803811 — 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: Rathbone Context triple: [Basil Rathbone, familyName, Rathbone]
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A.
Reginald
Reginald is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including military officers, politicians, and artists.
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B.
Nevil Macready
Nevil Macready was a British Army general best known for serving as Commander-in-Chief in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence.
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C.
Clive
Clive is a surname most famously associated with Robert Clive, the 18th-century British officer who played a key role in establishing British rule in India.
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D.
Henry Hall
Henry Hall is the son of American actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus and musician Brad Hall.
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E.
Cecil
Cecil is a masculine given name most famously associated with pioneering American film director and producer Cecil B. DeMille.
- 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: Rathbone Target entity description: Rathbone is a surname most famously associated with English actor Basil Rathbone, renowned for his definitive portrayals of Sherlock Holmes in classic films.
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A.
Reginald
Reginald is a masculine given name of English origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including military officers, politicians, and artists.
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B.
Nevil Macready
Nevil Macready was a British Army general best known for serving as Commander-in-Chief in Ireland during the Irish War of Independence.
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C.
Clive
Clive is a surname most famously associated with Robert Clive, the 18th-century British officer who played a key role in establishing British rule in India.
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D.
Henry Hall
Henry Hall is the son of American actress and comedian Julia Louis-Dreyfus and musician Brad Hall.
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E.
Cecil
Cecil is a masculine given name most famously associated with pioneering American film director and producer Cecil B. DeMille.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
actor
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city ⓘ city ⓘ family name ⓘ fictional character ⓘ film actor ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ screenwriter ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| country |
South Africa
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United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| creator | Arthur Conan Doyle ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1892-06-13 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1967-07-21 ⓘ |
| familyName |
Rathbone
self-linksurface differs
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Rathbone self-linksurface differs ⓘ Rathbone self-linksurface differs ⓘ Rathbone self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| genre | classic film ⓘ |
| givenName | Philip ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Basil Rathbone
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Jenny Rathbone ⓘ Julian Rathbone ⓘ Richard Rathbone ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| notableWork | portrayal of Sherlock Holmes ⓘ |
| occupation |
historian
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novelist ⓘ politician ⓘ radio actor ⓘ stage actor ⓘ television actor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Johannesburg, South Africa
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surface form:
Johannesburg
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| placeOfDeath | New York City ⓘ |
| portrayed |
Holmes
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surface form:
Sherlock Holmes
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| spouse | Ouida Bergère ⓘ |
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: Rathbone Description of subject: Rathbone is a surname most famously associated with English actor Basil Rathbone, renowned for his definitive portrayals of Sherlock Holmes in classic films.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Basil Rathbone
subject surface form:
Julian Rathbone
subject surface form:
Richard Rathbone
subject surface form:
Jenny Rathbone
subject surface form:
Philip St. John Basil Rathbone