Sir John Shore
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Sir John Shore was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of India in the late 18th century, known for his cautious policies and emphasis on non-intervention.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sir John Shore canonical | 2 |
| John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3467015 — 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: Sir John Shore Context triple: [Governor-General of Bengal, officeHolder, Sir John Shore]
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A.
Sir John Parker
Sir John Parker is a prominent British industrialist and business leader known for his extensive career chairing major engineering and shipbuilding companies and influencing UK corporate governance.
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B.
Baron Clive
Baron Clive is a British peerage title historically associated with the Clive family, notably linked to the political and aristocratic legacy surrounding the Earls of Powis.
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C.
William Clive
William Clive is a notable individual bearing the surname Clive, recognized in historical and biographical records associated with the Clive family name.
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D.
Lewis Clive
Lewis Clive was a British Olympic gold-medalist rower and left-wing intellectual who became notable for volunteering and dying as an anti-fascist fighter in the Spanish Civil War.
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E.
Edward Pakenham
Edward Pakenham was a British Army general of the Napoleonic Wars, best known for leading the ill-fated British assault during the War of 1812 in which he was killed.
- 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: Sir John Shore Target entity description: Sir John Shore was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of India in the late 18th century, known for his cautious policies and emphasis on non-intervention.
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A.
Sir John Parker
Sir John Parker is a prominent British industrialist and business leader known for his extensive career chairing major engineering and shipbuilding companies and influencing UK corporate governance.
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B.
Baron Clive
Baron Clive is a British peerage title historically associated with the Clive family, notably linked to the political and aristocratic legacy surrounding the Earls of Powis.
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C.
William Clive
William Clive is a notable individual bearing the surname Clive, recognized in historical and biographical records associated with the Clive family name.
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D.
Lewis Clive
Lewis Clive was a British Olympic gold-medalist rower and left-wing intellectual who became notable for volunteering and dying as an anti-fascist fighter in the Spanish Civil War.
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E.
Edward Pakenham
Edward Pakenham was a British Army general of the Napoleonic Wars, best known for leading the ill-fated British assault during the War of 1812 in which he was killed.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Sir John Shore Description of subject: Sir John Shore was a British colonial administrator who served as Governor-General of India in the late 18th century, known for his cautious policies and emphasis on non-intervention.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
John Shore, 1st Baron Teignmouth