Joseph Glanvill
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Joseph Glanvill was a 17th-century English clergyman, philosopher, and writer known for his skeptical yet fascinated engagement with witchcraft, the supernatural, and early modern science.
All labels observed (1)
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| Joseph Glanvill canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22158841 — 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: Joseph Glanvill Context triple: [The Scholar-Gipsy, sourceAuthor, Joseph Glanvill]
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A.
John Swetnam
John Swetnam is an American screenwriter and film producer known for writing action and disaster films such as "Into the Storm" and dance films like "Step Up All In."
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B.
Robert Barnes
Robert Barnes was a prominent St. Louis businessman and philanthropist whose contributions to healthcare led to a major hospital being named in his honor.
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C.
Harrold Hardyng
Harrold Hardyng is a young nobleman from the Vale in "A Song of Ice and Fire," notable as the heir presumptive to House Arryn and the Eyrie.
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D.
Bishop John Bale
Bishop John Bale was a 16th-century English churchman, playwright, and Protestant polemicist known for his fiercely anti-Catholic writings and early contributions to English drama and literary history.
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E.
Theophilus Lindsey
Theophilus Lindsey was an 18th-century English clergyman and theologian best known for founding the first openly Unitarian chapel in London and helping to establish Unitarianism as a distinct religious movement in Britain.
- 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: Joseph Glanvill Target entity description: Joseph Glanvill was a 17th-century English clergyman, philosopher, and writer known for his skeptical yet fascinated engagement with witchcraft, the supernatural, and early modern science.
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A.
John Swetnam
John Swetnam is an American screenwriter and film producer known for writing action and disaster films such as "Into the Storm" and dance films like "Step Up All In."
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B.
Robert Barnes
Robert Barnes was a prominent St. Louis businessman and philanthropist whose contributions to healthcare led to a major hospital being named in his honor.
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C.
Harrold Hardyng
Harrold Hardyng is a young nobleman from the Vale in "A Song of Ice and Fire," notable as the heir presumptive to House Arryn and the Eyrie.
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D.
Bishop John Bale
Bishop John Bale was a 16th-century English churchman, playwright, and Protestant polemicist known for his fiercely anti-Catholic writings and early contributions to English drama and literary history.
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E.
Theophilus Lindsey
Theophilus Lindsey was an 18th-century English clergyman and theologian best known for founding the first openly Unitarian chapel in London and helping to establish Unitarianism as a distinct religious movement in Britain.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.