Henry Hornblower I
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Henry Hornblower I was an American businessman and stockbroker who founded the Boston-based investment firm Hornblower & Weeks in the late 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry Hornblower I canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3504831 — 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: Henry Hornblower I Context triple: [Henry Hornblower II, hasRelative, Henry Hornblower I]
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A.
Henry Hornblower II
Henry Hornblower II was an American investment banker and philanthropist best known for creating the living history museum now known as Plimoth Patuxet Museums in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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B.
Edward Pellew
Edward Pellew was a distinguished British Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his daring frigate actions and later service as a senior admiral and peer.
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C.
Captain Smollett
Captain Smollett is the strict but honorable sea captain who commands the Hispaniola in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel "Treasure Island."
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D.
George Cockburn
George Cockburn was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for leading raids along the American coast during the War of 1812, including the burning of Washington, D.C.
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E.
Jack Aubrey
Jack Aubrey is a fictional early 19th-century Royal Navy captain created by Patrick O'Brian, renowned for his daring sea command and close friendship with ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin in the Aubrey–Maturin series.
- 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: Henry Hornblower I Target entity description: Henry Hornblower I was an American businessman and stockbroker who founded the Boston-based investment firm Hornblower & Weeks in the late 19th century.
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A.
Henry Hornblower II
Henry Hornblower II was an American investment banker and philanthropist best known for creating the living history museum now known as Plimoth Patuxet Museums in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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B.
Edward Pellew
Edward Pellew was a distinguished British Royal Navy officer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, renowned for his daring frigate actions and later service as a senior admiral and peer.
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C.
Captain Smollett
Captain Smollett is the strict but honorable sea captain who commands the Hispaniola in Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic adventure novel "Treasure Island."
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D.
George Cockburn
George Cockburn was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for leading raids along the American coast during the War of 1812, including the burning of Washington, D.C.
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E.
Jack Aubrey
Jack Aubrey is a fictional early 19th-century Royal Navy captain created by Patrick O'Brian, renowned for his daring sea command and close friendship with ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin in the Aubrey–Maturin series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
businessperson
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human ⓘ investment firm ⓘ stock brokerage ⓘ stockbroker ⓘ |
| businessLocation | Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United States of America ⓘ |
| employer | Hornblower & Weeks ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
finance
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investment banking ⓘ stockbroking ⓘ |
| founded | Hornblower & Weeks ⓘ |
| founder | Henry Hornblower I self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | Boston, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| industry |
financial services
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investment banking ⓘ securities brokerage ⓘ |
| knownFor | founder of Hornblower & Weeks ⓘ |
| name | Henry Hornblower I self-link ⓘ |
| notableWork | founding the investment firm Hornblower & Weeks ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessman
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stockbroker ⓘ |
| positionHeld | partner at Hornblower & Weeks ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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: Henry Hornblower I Description of subject: Henry Hornblower I was an American businessman and stockbroker who founded the Boston-based investment firm Hornblower & Weeks in the late 19th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Hornblower & Weeks