Eric Kennington
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Eric Kennington was a British painter, sculptor, and war artist renowned for his powerful depictions of soldiers and combat during the World Wars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eric Kennington canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2697173 — 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: Eric Kennington Context triple: [British War Memorials Committee, notableArtistCommissioned, Eric Kennington]
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A.
Colin Goudie
Colin Goudie is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
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B.
Ben Wilkinson
Ben Wilkinson is a British poet, critic, and academic known for his contemporary poetry collections and contributions to literary journalism.
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C.
Graeme Goodall
Graeme Goodall was an influential Australian-born recording engineer and music industry executive who played a key role in developing Jamaica’s recording scene and co-founding major labels that helped bring reggae to international audiences.
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D.
Colin Pilger
Colin Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Pilger, though specific widely known public details about him are not readily available.
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E.
Jack Hildyard
Jack Hildyard was a British cinematographer renowned for his work on classic films, including the Academy Award-winning "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
- 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: Eric Kennington Target entity description: Eric Kennington was a British painter, sculptor, and war artist renowned for his powerful depictions of soldiers and combat during the World Wars.
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A.
Colin Goudie
Colin Goudie is a film editor known for his work on major feature films, including the fantasy action movie "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword."
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B.
Ben Wilkinson
Ben Wilkinson is a British poet, critic, and academic known for his contemporary poetry collections and contributions to literary journalism.
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C.
Graeme Goodall
Graeme Goodall was an influential Australian-born recording engineer and music industry executive who played a key role in developing Jamaica’s recording scene and co-founding major labels that helped bring reggae to international audiences.
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D.
Colin Pilger
Colin Pilger is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Pilger, though specific widely known public details about him are not readily available.
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E.
Jack Hildyard
Jack Hildyard was a British cinematographer renowned for his work on classic films, including the Academy Award-winning "The Bridge on the River Kwai."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
painter ⓘ portrait artist ⓘ sculptor ⓘ war artist ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1888-03-12 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1960-04-13 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | City and Guilds of London Art School ⓘ |
| employer |
British War Memorials Committee
ⓘ
War Artists' Advisory Committee ⓘ
surface form:
War Artists Advisory Committee
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| fieldOfWork |
painting
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portraiture ⓘ sculpture ⓘ war art ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | figurative art ⓘ |
| hasWorkInCollection |
Imperial War Museums
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surface form:
Imperial War Museum
National Portrait Gallery ⓘ
surface form:
National Portrait Gallery, London
Tate ⓘ |
| hasWorkLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | British art ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
World War I depictions
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World War II depictions ⓘ portraits of soldiers ⓘ powerful depictions of soldiers and combat ⓘ war art ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Gassed and Wounded
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The Conquerors ⓘ The Kensingtons at Laventie ⓘ portraits of RAF personnel ⓘ |
| occupation |
painter
ⓘ
sculptor ⓘ war artist ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
World War I
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World War II ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
London, England
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surface form:
London
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Berkshire
ⓘ
England ⓘ Reading ⓘ |
| representedBy |
War Artists' Advisory Committee
ⓘ
surface form:
War Artists Advisory Committee
|
| subjectOf | exhibitions on British war art ⓘ |
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: Eric Kennington Description of subject: Eric Kennington was a British painter, sculptor, and war artist renowned for his powerful depictions of soldiers and combat during the World Wars.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.