Charles Bigelow (typographer)
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Charles Bigelow is an American type designer and typographer best known as the co-creator of the Lucida and Wingdings typeface families.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles Bigelow (typographer) canonical | 1 |
| Kaye Professor of Typography at Rochester Institute of Technology | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5032152 — 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: Charles Bigelow (typographer) Context triple: [Bigelow, hasNotableIndividual, Charles Bigelow (typographer)]
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A.
Mack Goudy Jr.
Mack Goudy Jr. is an American musician best known as the bassist for the influential proto-punk band The Stooges.
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B.
Christopher Berner
Christopher Berner is a researcher and engineer known for his work at OpenAI on large-scale machine learning and language models.
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C.
Wallace Miller
Wallace Miller was a local school district official involved in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder concerning compulsory education and religious freedom.
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D.
Eric Gill
Eric Gill was a British sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker known for his influential work in the early 20th century and for designing typefaces such as Gill Sans.
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E.
Henri Didot
Henri Didot was a member of the renowned French Didot family of printers and typefounders, contributing to the development of typography and printing in France.
- 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: Charles Bigelow (typographer) Target entity description: Charles Bigelow is an American type designer and typographer best known as the co-creator of the Lucida and Wingdings typeface families.
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A.
Mack Goudy Jr.
Mack Goudy Jr. is an American musician best known as the bassist for the influential proto-punk band The Stooges.
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B.
Christopher Berner
Christopher Berner is a researcher and engineer known for his work at OpenAI on large-scale machine learning and language models.
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C.
Wallace Miller
Wallace Miller was a local school district official involved in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Wisconsin v. Yoder concerning compulsory education and religious freedom.
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D.
Eric Gill
Eric Gill was a British sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker known for his influential work in the early 20th century and for designing typefaces such as Gill Sans.
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E.
Henri Didot
Henri Didot was a member of the renowned French Didot family of printers and typefounders, contributing to the development of typography and printing in France.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Charles Bigelow (typographer) Description of subject: Charles Bigelow is an American type designer and typographer best known as the co-creator of the Lucida and Wingdings typeface families.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Charles Bigelow
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Kaye Professor of Typography at Rochester Institute of Technology
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Charles Bigelow (typographer)
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