Holmes
E5614
Holmes is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures, including writers, jurists, and fictional characters such as Sherlock Holmes.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sherlock Holmes | 109 |
| Holmes canonical | 26 |
| Mycroft Holmes | 3 |
| Dr. Holmes | 1 |
| Enola Holmes | 1 |
| Groove Holmes | 1 |
| Nero Holmes | 1 |
| Sherlock Holmes (by pun) | 1 |
| Sherlock Holmes as the Napoleon of crime | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T53824 — 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.
Target entity: Holmes Context triple: [Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., familyName, Holmes]
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A.
Herbert
Herbert is a masculine given name of Germanic origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
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B.
Winston
Winston is the given name of Winston Churchill, the British statesman who led the United Kingdom during World War II and later served again as Prime Minister.
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C.
Claude Auchinleck
Claude Auchinleck was a senior British Army officer and field marshal best known for his leadership of Allied forces in the Middle East during the early stages of World War II.
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D.
Edwin
Edwin is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "rich friend" or "prosperous friend."
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E.
McClintock
McClintock is a surname most notably associated with Barbara McClintock, the pioneering American cytogeneticist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for her discovery of genetic transposition.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Holmes Target entity description: Holmes is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures, including writers, jurists, and fictional characters such as Sherlock Holmes.
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A.
Herbert
Herbert is a masculine given name of Germanic origin that has been borne by various notable figures, including U.S. President Herbert Hoover.
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B.
Winston
Winston is the given name of Winston Churchill, the British statesman who led the United Kingdom during World War II and later served again as Prime Minister.
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C.
Claude Auchinleck
Claude Auchinleck was a senior British Army officer and field marshal best known for his leadership of Allied forces in the Middle East during the early stages of World War II.
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D.
H. Bates Peacock
H. Bates Peacock was a founder of Geophysical Service Incorporated, an early geophysical exploration company that later evolved into part of Texas Instruments.
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E.
Edwin
Edwin is a masculine given name of Old English origin meaning "rich friend" or "prosperous friend."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language surname
ⓘ
family name ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| category |
English-language surnames
ⓘ
Surnames of English origin ⓘ Toponymic surnames ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Middle English
ⓘ
holme ⓘ |
| hasLanguage | English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
David Holmes
ⓘ
E. M. Holmes ⓘ Emmylou Holmes ⓘ Gordon Holmes ⓘ John Holmes ⓘ Katie Holmes ⓘ Larry Holmes ⓘ Mike Holmes ⓘ Nigel Holmes ⓘ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. ⓘ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. ⓘ Rupert Holmes ⓘ Holmes self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Sherlock Holmes
Steve Holmes ⓘ T. J. Holmes ⓘ |
| hasNotableFictionalBearer |
Holmes
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Enola Holmes
Holmes self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Mycroft Holmes
Holmes self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Nero Holmes
Holmes self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Sherlock Holmes
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| hasOrigin | England ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Holme
ⓘ
Homes ⓘ Hulme, Manchester ⓘ
surface form:
Hulme
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| isToponymic | true ⓘ |
| meaning |
islet
ⓘ
low-lying land by a river ⓘ river island ⓘ |
| usedAs | surname ⓘ |
| usedBy | multiple families ⓘ |
| usedInCountry |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
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.
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.
Subject: Holmes Description of subject: Holmes is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures, including writers, jurists, and fictional characters such as Sherlock Holmes.
Referenced by (144)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.