Waterhouse
E211961
Waterhouse is a surname most notably associated with John William Waterhouse, the British painter famed for his Romantic and Pre-Raphaelite-style depictions of mythological and literary subjects.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Waterhouse canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1909700 — 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: Waterhouse Context triple: [John William Waterhouse, familyName, Waterhouse]
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A.
Bridge House
Bridge House is a tiny, historic stone building famously perched over Stock Ghyll in Ambleside, England, and is one of the Lake District’s most photographed landmarks.
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B.
Baynard House
Baynard House is a large Brutalist office and telecommunications building in the City of London, notable for its imposing concrete design and riverside location near Blackfriars.
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C.
Blackwell House
Blackwell House is a historic 18th-century farmhouse on Roosevelt Island in New York City, recognized as one of the island’s oldest surviving buildings.
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D.
Murney Tower
Murney Tower is a 19th-century stone Martello tower and National Historic Site that forms part of the historic waterfront fortifications in Kingston, Ontario.
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E.
Hawkes House
Hawkes House is a historic 18th-century merchant’s residence in Salem, Massachusetts, preserved as part of the Salem Maritime National Historic Site.
- 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: Waterhouse Target entity description: Waterhouse is a surname most notably associated with John William Waterhouse, the British painter famed for his Romantic and Pre-Raphaelite-style depictions of mythological and literary subjects.
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A.
Bridge House
Bridge House is a tiny, historic stone building famously perched over Stock Ghyll in Ambleside, England, and is one of the Lake District’s most photographed landmarks.
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B.
Baynard House
Baynard House is a large Brutalist office and telecommunications building in the City of London, notable for its imposing concrete design and riverside location near Blackfriars.
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C.
Blackwell House
Blackwell House is a historic 18th-century farmhouse on Roosevelt Island in New York City, recognized as one of the island’s oldest surviving buildings.
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D.
Murney Tower
Murney Tower is a 19th-century stone Martello tower and National Historic Site that forms part of the historic waterfront fortifications in Kingston, Ontario.
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E.
Hawkes House
Hawkes House is a historic 18th-century merchant’s residence in Salem, Massachusetts, preserved as part of the Salem Maritime National Historic Site.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family name
ⓘ
human ⓘ painter ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Arthurian legend
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Shakespearean literature ⓘ classical mythology ⓘ |
| countryOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | painting ⓘ |
| genre |
figurative art
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historical painting ⓘ mythological painting ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | John William Waterhouse ⓘ |
| influencedBy | Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| movement |
Pre-Raphaelite
ⓘ
linked to:
Pre-Raphaelite art
Romanticism ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
literary subjects
ⓘ
mythological subjects ⓘ |
| notableWork |
A Mermaid
ⓘ
Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses ⓘ Hylas and the Nymphs ⓘ Ophelia ⓘ The Lady of Shalott ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Australia
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Waterhouse Description of subject: Waterhouse is a surname most notably associated with John William Waterhouse, the British painter famed for his Romantic and Pre-Raphaelite-style depictions of mythological and literary subjects.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.