John Latham
E1029626
John Latham was a 19th-century American shipbuilder known for constructing the historic fishing schooner Emma C. Berry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Latham canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13233275 — 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: John Latham Context triple: [Emma C. Berry, builder, John Latham]
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A.
John Latham
John Latham was an 18th–19th century English physician and ornithologist known for his pioneering work in bird classification and early descriptions of many species.
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B.
John Latham
John Latham was an Australian politician, jurist, and diplomat who served as Leader of the Opposition and later as Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.
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C.
Roland Penrose
Roland Penrose was a British Surrealist artist, collector, and influential promoter of modern art who played a key role in introducing avant-garde movements to the UK.
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D.
A. J. Casson
A. J. Casson was a Canadian painter renowned for his stylized depictions of Ontario landscapes and small towns, and for being one of the later members of the influential Group of Seven.
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E.
Denys Lasdun
Denys Lasdun was a prominent British architect best known for his bold, sculptural modernist buildings such as the Royal National Theatre in London.
- 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: John Latham Target entity description: John Latham was a 19th-century American shipbuilder known for constructing the historic fishing schooner Emma C. Berry.
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A.
John Latham
John Latham was an 18th–19th century English physician and ornithologist known for his pioneering work in bird classification and early descriptions of many species.
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B.
John Latham
John Latham was an Australian politician, jurist, and diplomat who served as Leader of the Opposition and later as Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia.
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C.
Roland Penrose
Roland Penrose was a British Surrealist artist, collector, and influential promoter of modern art who played a key role in introducing avant-garde movements to the UK.
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D.
A. J. Casson
A. J. Casson was a Canadian painter renowned for his stylized depictions of Ontario landscapes and small towns, and for being one of the later members of the influential Group of Seven.
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E.
Denys Lasdun
Denys Lasdun was a prominent British architect best known for his bold, sculptural modernist buildings such as the Royal National Theatre in London.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fishing schooner
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historic vessel ⓘ human ⓘ shipbuilder ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| constructed | Emma C. Berry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | shipbuilding ⓘ |
| hasBuilder | John Latham ⓘ |
| notableWork | Emma C. Berry ⓘ |
| occupation | shipbuilder ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: John Latham Description of subject: John Latham was a 19th-century American shipbuilder known for constructing the historic fishing schooner Emma C. Berry.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
John Latham