Harold Pinker
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Harold Pinker is a clergyman and recurring comic character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories, notably connected with Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Harold Pinker canonical | 7 |
| Stinker Pinker | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6875146 — 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: Harold Pinker Context triple: [Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng, associatedWithCharacter, Harold Pinker]
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A.
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author known for his work on language, the mind, and human nature.
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B.
Jerome H. Barkow
Jerome H. Barkow is an evolutionary anthropologist and psychologist known for his work on evolutionary psychology and human nature, including co-editing the influential volume "The Adapted Mind."
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C.
Michael Kenstowicz
Michael Kenstowicz is an American linguist and phonologist known for his influential work on generative phonology and for co-authoring widely used textbooks in the field.
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D.
Ray Jackendoff
Ray Jackendoff is an American linguist and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on generative grammar, the interface between syntax and semantics, and the architecture of the language faculty.
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E.
Geoffrey Pullum
Geoffrey Pullum is a British-American linguist and professor known for his influential work in syntax, his co-authorship of *The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language*, and his outspoken critiques of various generative grammar theories.
- 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: Harold Pinker Target entity description: Harold Pinker is a clergyman and recurring comic character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories, notably connected with Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng.
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A.
Steven Pinker
Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American cognitive psychologist, linguist, and popular science author known for his work on language, the mind, and human nature.
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B.
Jerome H. Barkow
Jerome H. Barkow is an evolutionary anthropologist and psychologist known for his work on evolutionary psychology and human nature, including co-editing the influential volume "The Adapted Mind."
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C.
Michael Kenstowicz
Michael Kenstowicz is an American linguist and phonologist known for his influential work on generative phonology and for co-authoring widely used textbooks in the field.
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D.
Ray Jackendoff
Ray Jackendoff is an American linguist and cognitive scientist known for his influential work on generative grammar, the interface between syntax and semantics, and the architecture of the language faculty.
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E.
Geoffrey Pullum
Geoffrey Pullum is a British-American linguist and professor known for his influential work in syntax, his co-authorship of *The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language*, and his outspoken critiques of various generative grammar theories.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Harold Pinker Description of subject: Harold Pinker is a clergyman and recurring comic character in P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster stories, notably connected with Stephanie "Stiffy" Byng.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Harold Pinker