John Widgery, Baron Widgery
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John Widgery, Baron Widgery was a British judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and is best known for leading the controversial Widgery Tribunal into the events of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John Widgery, Baron Widgery canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4582943 — 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: John Widgery, Baron Widgery Context triple: [Widgery Tribunal, chairperson, John Widgery, Baron Widgery]
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A.
Lord Browne of Madingley
Lord Browne of Madingley is a British businessman and former chief executive of BP, noted for his influential role in the global energy industry and public service in engineering and education.
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B.
Jonathan Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale
Jonathan Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale, is a British former civil servant who served as Director General of the UK Security Service (MI5) from 2007 to 2013.
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C.
William Venn Gough
William Venn Gough was a British architect active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his work on prominent public and commemorative buildings.
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D.
Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe
Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe is a British judge and law lord who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
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E.
David Hoyle
David Hoyle is a senior Church of England cleric who serves as the Dean of Westminster, overseeing major national religious ceremonies at Westminster Abbey.
- 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: John Widgery, Baron Widgery Target entity description: John Widgery, Baron Widgery was a British judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and is best known for leading the controversial Widgery Tribunal into the events of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland.
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A.
Lord Browne of Madingley
Lord Browne of Madingley is a British businessman and former chief executive of BP, noted for his influential role in the global energy industry and public service in engineering and education.
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B.
Jonathan Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale
Jonathan Evans, Baron Evans of Weardale, is a British former civil servant who served as Director General of the UK Security Service (MI5) from 2007 to 2013.
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C.
William Venn Gough
William Venn Gough was a British architect active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his work on prominent public and commemorative buildings.
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D.
Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe
Lord Walker of Gestingthorpe is a British judge and law lord who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
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E.
David Hoyle
David Hoyle is a senior Church of England cleric who serves as the Dean of Westminster, overseeing major national religious ceremonies at Westminster Abbey.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British judge
ⓘ
human ⓘ life peer ⓘ |
| areaOfWork |
English law
ⓘ
criminal law ⓘ judicial administration ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Devon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
England ⓘ Exeter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War II
ⓘ
surface form:
Second World War
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Devon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
England ⓘ Exeter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Exeter School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Queen's College, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ University of Oxford ⓘ |
| familyName | Widgery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | The Right Honourable ⓘ |
| honorificSuffix |
DL
ⓘ
PC ⓘ QC ⓘ |
| knownFor | controversial findings on Bloody Sunday ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legalSystem | common law of England and Wales ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Inner Temple
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Privy Council ⓘ
surface form:
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
|
| militaryBranch | Royal Artillery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Bloody Sunday inquiry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | inquiry into Bloody Sunday ⓘ |
| notableWork | Widgery Tribunal NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
barrister
ⓘ
judge ⓘ jurist ⓘ |
| parliamentaryGroup | House of Lords NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Bencher of the Inner Temple
ⓘ
High Court judge ⓘ Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales NERFINISHED ⓘ Lord Justice of Appeal NERFINISHED ⓘ Recorder of Exeter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Baron Widgery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: John Widgery, Baron Widgery Description of subject: John Widgery, Baron Widgery was a British judge who served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales and is best known for leading the controversial Widgery Tribunal into the events of Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.