Richard Arnold
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Richard Arnold was the son of American Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold and his second wife, Peggy Shippen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Arnold canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2478315 — 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: Richard Arnold Context triple: [Peggy Shippen, child, Richard Arnold]
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A.
Richard Arnold
Richard Arnold is a British television presenter and entertainment journalist best known for his showbiz reporting on ITV's "Good Morning Britain."
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B.
Edward Arnold
Edward Arnold was a prominent American character actor of the early to mid-20th century, known for his powerful screen presence and frequent portrayals of authoritative or villainous figures in Hollywood films.
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C.
Terence Morgan
Terence Morgan was a British actor best known for his film and television roles in the mid-20th century, often portraying suave or villainous characters.
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D.
Arnold Wilkins
Arnold Wilkins was a British physicist and radar pioneer who played a key role in developing early warning radar systems that were crucial to the United Kingdom’s air defense in World War II.
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E.
James Arnold
James Arnold was a 19th-century American merchant and philanthropist whose bequest helped establish Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum.
- 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: Richard Arnold Target entity description: Richard Arnold was the son of American Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold and his second wife, Peggy Shippen.
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A.
Richard Arnold
Richard Arnold is a British television presenter and entertainment journalist best known for his showbiz reporting on ITV's "Good Morning Britain."
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B.
Edward Arnold
Edward Arnold was a prominent American character actor of the early to mid-20th century, known for his powerful screen presence and frequent portrayals of authoritative or villainous figures in Hollywood films.
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C.
Terence Morgan
Terence Morgan was a British actor best known for his film and television roles in the mid-20th century, often portraying suave or villainous characters.
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D.
Arnold Wilkins
Arnold Wilkins was a British physicist and radar pioneer who played a key role in developing early warning radar systems that were crucial to the United Kingdom’s air defense in World War II.
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E.
James Arnold
James Arnold was a 19th-century American merchant and philanthropist whose bequest helped establish Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English American ⓘ |
| familyName | Arnold ⓘ |
| father |
Benedict Arnold III
ⓘ
surface form:
Benedict Arnold
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| givenName | Richard ⓘ |
| mother | Peggy Shippen ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the son of Benedict Arnold and Peggy Shippen ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Benedict Arnold
ⓘ
Peggy Shippen ⓘ |
| partOf | Arnold family ⓘ |
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: Richard Arnold Description of subject: Richard Arnold was the son of American Revolutionary War figure Benedict Arnold and his second wife, Peggy Shippen.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.