Richard Mayhew
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Richard Mayhew is the bewildered everyman protagonist of Neil Gaiman’s urban fantasy novel "Neverwhere," who stumbles into the hidden, magical world of London Below.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard Mayhew canonical | 11 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6875351 — 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 Mayhew Context triple: [Neverwhere, hasMainCharacter, Richard Mayhew]
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A.
John Twist
John Twist was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood's mid-20th century studio era, contributing scripts to numerous feature films.
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B.
Bartholomew Green
Bartholomew Green was a prominent early 18th-century Boston printer and publisher known for producing influential colonial American works.
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C.
Jack Taylor
Jack Taylor is an Irish crime drama television series, based on Ken Bruen’s novels, in which Iain Glen stars as a former Garda officer turned private investigator in Galway.
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D.
Jack Taylor
Jack Taylor was an English football referee renowned for officiating major international matches, including the 1974 FIFA World Cup Final.
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E.
Henry Burden
Henry Burden was a 19th-century Scottish-American industrialist and inventor known for revolutionizing iron manufacturing, particularly through his patented horseshoe machine and development of the Burden Iron Works in Troy, New York.
- 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 Mayhew Target entity description: Richard Mayhew is the bewildered everyman protagonist of Neil Gaiman’s urban fantasy novel "Neverwhere," who stumbles into the hidden, magical world of London Below.
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A.
John Twist
John Twist was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood's mid-20th century studio era, contributing scripts to numerous feature films.
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B.
Bartholomew Green
Bartholomew Green was a prominent early 18th-century Boston printer and publisher known for producing influential colonial American works.
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C.
Jack Taylor
Jack Taylor is an Irish crime drama television series, based on Ken Bruen’s novels, in which Iain Glen stars as a former Garda officer turned private investigator in Galway.
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D.
Jack Taylor
Jack Taylor was an English football referee renowned for officiating major international matches, including the 1974 FIFA World Cup Final.
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E.
Henry Burden
Henry Burden was a 19th-century Scottish-American industrialist and inventor known for revolutionizing iron manufacturing, particularly through his patented horseshoe machine and development of the Burden Iron Works in Troy, New York.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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 Mayhew Description of subject: Richard Mayhew is the bewildered everyman protagonist of Neil Gaiman’s urban fantasy novel "Neverwhere," who stumbles into the hidden, magical world of London Below.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.