John Charles Walsham Reith
E1025294
John Charles Walsham Reith was a pioneering Scottish broadcasting executive who served as the first Director-General of the BBC and shaped its public service ethos.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 1st Baron Reith | 2 |
| John Charles Walsham Reith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13152041 — 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.
Target entity: John Charles Walsham Reith Context triple: [John Reith, fullName, John Charles Walsham Reith]
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A.
Richard Dimbleby
Richard Dimbleby was a pioneering British broadcaster and war correspondent, best known as the BBC’s first television news commentator and one of the most authoritative voices in mid-20th-century British journalism.
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B.
William Penney
William Penney was a British mathematician and physicist who played a key role in the development of nuclear weapons, later becoming the chief architect of the United Kingdom’s atomic bomb program.
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C.
Philip Noel-Baker
Philip Noel-Baker was a British politician, diplomat, and Nobel Peace Prize–winning disarmament advocate who held several senior government posts in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Sir Ernest Ryder
Sir Ernest Ryder is a senior British judge who has served as Senior President of Tribunals and as a Lord Justice of Appeal.
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E.
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet was a Canadian-born British media magnate who built a vast newspaper and broadcasting empire and became one of the most influential press barons of the 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: John Charles Walsham Reith Target entity description: John Charles Walsham Reith was a pioneering Scottish broadcasting executive who served as the first Director-General of the BBC and shaped its public service ethos.
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A.
Richard Dimbleby
Richard Dimbleby was a pioneering British broadcaster and war correspondent, best known as the BBC’s first television news commentator and one of the most authoritative voices in mid-20th-century British journalism.
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B.
William Penney
William Penney was a British mathematician and physicist who played a key role in the development of nuclear weapons, later becoming the chief architect of the United Kingdom’s atomic bomb program.
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C.
Philip Noel-Baker
Philip Noel-Baker was a British politician, diplomat, and Nobel Peace Prize–winning disarmament advocate who held several senior government posts in the mid-20th century.
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D.
Sir Ernest Ryder
Sir Ernest Ryder is a senior British judge who has served as Senior President of Tribunals and as a Lord Justice of Appeal.
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E.
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet
Roy Thomson, 1st Baron Thomson of Fleet was a Canadian-born British media magnate who built a vast newspaper and broadcasting empire and became one of the most influential press barons of the 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish person
ⓘ
broadcasting executive ⓘ peer ⓘ person ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
John Reith, 1st Baron Reith
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lord Reith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
NERFINISHED
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Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1889-07-20 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Kincardineshire
NERFINISHED
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Scotland ⓘ Stonehaven NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War I
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surface form:
First World War
|
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdPeerage | 1940 ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1971-06-16 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Glasgow Academy
NERFINISHED
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Gresham's School NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal Technical College, Glasgow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer |
British Broadcasting Company
NERFINISHED
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British Broadcasting Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Reith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | John Charles Walsham Reith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | The Right Honourable ⓘ |
| honorificSuffix |
FRSE
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GBE NERFINISHED ⓘ GCB ⓘ |
| ideology | public service broadcasting ⓘ |
| influenced |
BBC public service broadcasting model
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development of national broadcasting in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being the first Director-General of the BBC
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formulating the Reithian principles of broadcasting ⓘ shaping the BBC public service broadcasting ethos ⓘ |
| memberOf | House of Lords ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
1st Baron Reith
NERFINISHED
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Baron Reith NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
broadcasting executive
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businessman ⓘ engineer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chairman of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Board
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Director-General of the BBC NERFINISHED ⓘ General Manager of the British Broadcasting Company ⓘ Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ Managing Director of the BBC ⓘ Minister of Information NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
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surface form:
Presbyterianism
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Subject: John Charles Walsham Reith Description of subject: John Charles Walsham Reith was a pioneering Scottish broadcasting executive who served as the first Director-General of the BBC and shaped its public service ethos.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.