Jonathan Stokes
E99439
Jonathan Stokes was an 18th-century English physician and botanist associated with the influential Lunar Society of Birmingham.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Stokes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T178247 — 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: Jonathan Stokes Context triple: [Lunar Society of Birmingham, hasMember, Jonathan Stokes]
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A.
John Stephens
John Stephens is an author best known for writing the children's fantasy novel "The Emerald Atlas" and its sequels in the Books of Beginning series.
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B.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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C.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
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D.
Sam Wheeler
Sam Wheeler is the father of Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon.
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E.
Richard Stolley
Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
- 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: Jonathan Stokes Target entity description: Jonathan Stokes was an 18th-century English physician and botanist associated with the influential Lunar Society of Birmingham.
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A.
John Stephens
John Stephens is an author best known for writing the children's fantasy novel "The Emerald Atlas" and its sequels in the Books of Beginning series.
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B.
Michael Rogers
Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
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C.
Michael V. Drake
Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
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D.
Sam Wheeler
Sam Wheeler is the father of Ted Wheeler, the mayor of Portland, Oregon.
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E.
Richard Stolley
Richard Stolley was an influential American magazine editor best known for shaping modern celebrity journalism as the founding managing editor of People magazine.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
botanist
ⓘ
human ⓘ member of the Lunar Society of Birmingham ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| century of activity | 18th century ⓘ |
| country of citizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| ethnic group | English ⓘ |
| field of work |
botany
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medicine ⓘ |
| language of work or name | English ⓘ |
| member of | Lunar Society of Birmingham ⓘ |
| notable for |
association with the Lunar Society of Birmingham
ⓘ
contributions to botany ⓘ |
| occupation |
botanist
ⓘ
physician ⓘ |
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: Jonathan Stokes Description of subject: Jonathan Stokes was an 18th-century English physician and botanist associated with the influential Lunar Society of Birmingham.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.