Richard Hathaway
E507688
Richard Hathaway was an English yeoman farmer best known as the father of Anne Hathaway, the wife of playwright William Shakespeare.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Richard Hathaway canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5269014 — 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: Richard Hathaway Context triple: [Susanna Hall, relative, Richard Hathaway]
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A.
William Mathews
William Mathews was a 19th-century British mountaineer notable for pioneering ascents in the Alps.
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B.
Douglas Wick
Douglas Wick is an American film producer known for acclaimed movies such as "Gladiator," "Working Girl," and "Memoirs of a Geisha."
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C.
Phil Jones
Phil Jones is an American drummer best known for his work with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and on Tom Petty’s solo recordings.
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D.
Paul Christman
Paul Christman was an American football quarterback who became a prominent television sportscaster in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
George Hartnett
George Hartnett is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Hartnett surname.
- 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: Richard Hathaway Target entity description: Richard Hathaway was an English yeoman farmer best known as the father of Anne Hathaway, the wife of playwright William Shakespeare.
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A.
William Mathews
William Mathews was a 19th-century British mountaineer notable for pioneering ascents in the Alps.
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B.
Douglas Wick
Douglas Wick is an American film producer known for acclaimed movies such as "Gladiator," "Working Girl," and "Memoirs of a Geisha."
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C.
Phil Jones
Phil Jones is an American drummer best known for his work with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and on Tom Petty’s solo recordings.
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D.
Paul Christman
Paul Christman was an American football quarterback who became a prominent television sportscaster in the 1950s and 1960s.
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E.
George Hartnett
George Hartnett is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the Hartnett surname.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
ⓘ
yeoman farmer ⓘ |
| child | Anne Hathaway ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Hathaway ⓘ |
| father | Richard Hathaway ⓘ |
| fatherInLaw | Richard Hathaway ⓘ |
| floruit | 16th century ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | being the father-in-law of William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Warwickshire ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the father of Anne Hathaway ⓘ |
| occupation | farmer ⓘ |
| relative | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence |
Shottery
ⓘ
Stratford-upon-Avon ⓘ
linked to:
Stratford-on-Avon
|
| socialClass | yeomanry ⓘ |
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: Richard Hathaway Description of subject: Richard Hathaway was an English yeoman farmer best known as the father of Anne Hathaway, the wife of playwright William Shakespeare.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.