Bonhams
E1027810
Bonhams is a renowned international auction house specializing in fine art, antiques, luxury collectibles, and rare items.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bonhams canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13219624 — 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: Bonhams Context triple: [Viveca Paulin-Ferrell, employer, Bonhams]
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A.
Christie’s
Christie’s is a world-renowned British auction house specializing in fine art, antiques, and luxury collectibles.
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B.
Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s is a world-renowned auction house specializing in the sale of fine art, rare collectibles, and other high-value assets.
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C.
Tattersalls
Tattersalls is a historic British auction house best known for conducting premier bloodstock and horse sales, particularly in Newmarket.
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D.
Manheim Auctions
Manheim Auctions is a leading wholesale vehicle auction company that facilitates the buying and selling of used cars for dealers and commercial clients across numerous locations worldwide.
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E.
Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction
The Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction is a premier American automotive auction event renowned for high-end classic and collector car sales, attracting enthusiasts, celebrities, and bidders from around the world.
- 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: Bonhams Target entity description: Bonhams is a renowned international auction house specializing in fine art, antiques, luxury collectibles, and rare items.
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A.
Christie’s
Christie’s is a world-renowned British auction house specializing in fine art, antiques, and luxury collectibles.
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B.
Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s is a world-renowned auction house specializing in the sale of fine art, rare collectibles, and other high-value assets.
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C.
Tattersalls
Tattersalls is a historic British auction house best known for conducting premier bloodstock and horse sales, particularly in Newmarket.
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D.
Manheim Auctions
Manheim Auctions is a leading wholesale vehicle auction company that facilitates the buying and selling of used cars for dealers and commercial clients across numerous locations worldwide.
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E.
Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction
The Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction is a premier American automotive auction event renowned for high-end classic and collector car sales, attracting enthusiasts, celebrities, and bidders from around the world.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
art auction house
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auction house ⓘ company ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Thomas Dodd
NERFINISHED
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Walter Bonham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasOfficeIn |
Dubai
NERFINISHED
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Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ Geneva NERFINISHED ⓘ Hong Kong NERFINISHED ⓘ Los Angeles NERFINISHED ⓘ New York City ⓘ Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ Sydney NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasService |
absentee bidding
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appraisals ⓘ bidding by telephone ⓘ estate services ⓘ live auctions ⓘ online auctions ⓘ private sales ⓘ specialist advice ⓘ valuations ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation |
London
NERFINISHED
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| inception | 1793 ⓘ |
| industry |
antiques
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auctions ⓘ fine art ⓘ luxury collectibles ⓘ rare items ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| location | New Bond Street, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
high-end art auctions
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historic and rare collectibles ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Asia
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Australia ⓘ Europe ⓘ Middle East ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
antique auctions
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classic car auctions ⓘ collectors’ items ⓘ fine art auctions ⓘ jewellery auctions ⓘ rare book auctions ⓘ watch auctions ⓘ wine auctions ⓘ |
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: Bonhams Description of subject: Bonhams is a renowned international auction house specializing in fine art, antiques, luxury collectibles, and rare items.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.