Sir Samuel Eyre
E395023
Sir Samuel Eyre was an English judge of the late 17th century who served as a Justice of the King’s Bench.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sir Samuel Eyre canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3845754 — 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 Samuel Eyre Context triple: [Eyre, hasNotableBearer, Sir Samuel Eyre]
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A.
Sir Matthew Holworthy
Sir Matthew Holworthy was a 17th-century English merchant and philanthropist known for his substantial benefactions to educational institutions, including Harvard University.
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B.
Sir Charles Yorke
Sir Charles Yorke was an 18th-century British lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.
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C.
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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D.
Sir James Eyre
Sir James Eyre was an 18th-century English judge who served as Chief Baron of the Exchequer and played a prominent role in several significant political and legal trials of his time.
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E.
Richard Bellingham
Richard Bellingham was a 17th-century colonial magistrate and politician who served multiple terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- 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 Samuel Eyre Target entity description: Sir Samuel Eyre was an English judge of the late 17th century who served as a Justice of the King’s Bench.
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A.
Sir Matthew Holworthy
Sir Matthew Holworthy was a 17th-century English merchant and philanthropist known for his substantial benefactions to educational institutions, including Harvard University.
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B.
Sir Charles Yorke
Sir Charles Yorke was an 18th-century British lawyer and politician who served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.
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C.
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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D.
Sir James Eyre
Sir James Eyre was an 18th-century English judge who served as Chief Baron of the Exchequer and played a prominent role in several significant political and legal trials of his time.
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E.
Richard Bellingham
Richard Bellingham was a 17th-century colonial magistrate and politician who served multiple terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English judge
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
St. Mary Aldermanbury
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surface form:
St Mary Aldermanbury
|
| centuryOfActivity | 17th century ⓘ |
| child | Sir Robert Eyre ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1633 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1698 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Lincoln's Inn
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surface form:
Lincoln’s Inn
Wadham College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| employer | Court of King’s Bench ⓘ |
| familyName | Eyre ⓘ |
| father | Robert Eyre ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | common law ⓘ |
| givenName | Samuel ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Sir ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Lincoln's Inn
ⓘ
surface form:
Lincoln’s Inn
|
| monarchDuringService |
Mary II of England
ⓘ
William III of England ⓘ |
| mother | Anne Eyre ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | knight ⓘ |
| notableFor | service as Justice of the King’s Bench in the late 17th century ⓘ |
| occupation | judge ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Wiltshire ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
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| positionHeld | Justice of the King’s Bench ⓘ |
| spouse | Martha Lucy ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
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 Samuel Eyre Description of subject: Sir Samuel Eyre was an English judge of the late 17th century who served as a Justice of the King’s Bench.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.