Locke
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Locke is a common English surname historically associated with occupations such as locksmithing and has been borne by notable figures including philosophers and politicians.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Locke canonical | 13 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13383145 — 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: Locke Context triple: [Gary Locke, familyName, Locke]
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Locke
"Locke" is a 2013 British drama film presented almost entirely in real time, featuring Tom Hardy as a construction manager whose life unravels during a solitary nighttime car journey.
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Locke
Locke is a ruthless Bolton henchman in "Game of Thrones" known for his cruelty and role in tormenting key characters.
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John Locke
John Locke was a 17th-century English philosopher whose ideas on natural rights, government by consent, and the social contract became foundational to modern liberal political thought.
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Hobbes
Hobbes is the sardonic, philosophical stuffed tiger who comes to life in the imagination of a young boy in the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes."
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes was a 17th-century English philosopher best known for his political theory of social contract and his seminal work "Leviathan," which argued for strong centralized authority to prevent societal chaos.
- 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: Locke Target entity description: Locke is a common English surname historically associated with occupations such as locksmithing and has been borne by notable figures including philosophers and politicians.
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A.
Locke
"Locke" is a 2013 British drama film presented almost entirely in real time, featuring Tom Hardy as a construction manager whose life unravels during a solitary nighttime car journey.
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B.
Locke
Locke is a ruthless Bolton henchman in "Game of Thrones" known for his cruelty and role in tormenting key characters.
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C.
John Locke
John Locke was a 17th-century English philosopher whose ideas on natural rights, government by consent, and the social contract became foundational to modern liberal political thought.
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D.
Hobbes
Hobbes is the sardonic, philosophical stuffed tiger who comes to life in the imagination of a young boy in the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes."
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E.
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes was a 17th-century English philosopher best known for his political theory of social contract and his seminal work "Leviathan," which argued for strong centralized authority to prevent societal chaos.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Locke Description of subject: Locke is a common English surname historically associated with occupations such as locksmithing and has been borne by notable figures including philosophers and politicians.
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Tyler Locke in Locke & Key
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Locke
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Locke
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Locke