Anthony Blunt
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Anthony Blunt was a British art historian and former Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures who was later exposed as a member of the Cambridge Five Soviet spy ring.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Anthony Blunt canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6890812 — 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: Anthony Blunt Context triple: [Blunt, hasNotableBearer, Anthony Blunt]
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A.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was a British poet, diplomat, and political activist known for his anti-imperialist views and his writings criticizing British foreign policy.
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B.
Rupert Hart-Davis
Rupert Hart-Davis was a prominent British publisher, editor, and biographer known for founding the publishing house Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd and for his influential role in mid-20th-century literary culture.
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C.
Julian Bell
Julian Bell was a British poet, essayist, and member of the Bloomsbury Group who was killed while serving as an ambulance driver in the Spanish Civil War.
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D.
Talbot Rothwell
Talbot Rothwell was a British screenwriter best known for writing many of the popular "Carry On" comedy films in the 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
Sir Richard Strachey
Sir Richard Strachey was a 19th-century British Indian civil servant, soldier, and administrator noted for his work in public works, irrigation, and scientific surveying in colonial India.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Anthony Blunt Target entity description: Anthony Blunt was a British art historian and former Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures who was later exposed as a member of the Cambridge Five Soviet spy ring.
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A.
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt was a British poet, diplomat, and political activist known for his anti-imperialist views and his writings criticizing British foreign policy.
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B.
Rupert Hart-Davis
Rupert Hart-Davis was a prominent British publisher, editor, and biographer known for founding the publishing house Rupert Hart-Davis Ltd and for his influential role in mid-20th-century literary culture.
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C.
Julian Bell
Julian Bell was a British poet, essayist, and member of the Bloomsbury Group who was killed while serving as an ambulance driver in the Spanish Civil War.
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D.
Talbot Rothwell
Talbot Rothwell was a British screenwriter best known for writing many of the popular "Carry On" comedy films in the 1960s and 1970s.
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E.
Sir Richard Strachey
Sir Richard Strachey was a 19th-century British Indian civil servant, soldier, and administrator noted for his work in public works, irrigation, and scientific surveying in colonial India.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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Soviet agent ⓘ art historian ⓘ human ⓘ spy ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Companion of the Order of the Bath
NERFINISHED
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Order of the British Empire ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | heart attack ⓘ |
| confessedToSpying | 1964 ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1907-09-26 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1983-03-26 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Marlborough College
NERFINISHED
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Trinity College, Cambridge ⓘ |
| employer |
British Security Service (MI5)
NERFINISHED
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Courtauld Institute of Art NERFINISHED ⓘ University of London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| exposedAsSpy | 1979 ⓘ |
| familyName | Blunt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Baroque art
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Renaissance art ⓘ art history ⓘ |
| fullName | Anthony Frederick Blunt NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Anthony ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Sir ⓘ |
| honourRevoked | knighthood ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures
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member of the Cambridge Five spy ring ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Cambridge Five NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| middleName | Frederick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Art and Architecture in France, 1500–1700
NERFINISHED
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Nicolas Poussin (monograph) NERFINISHED ⓘ The Drawings of Nicolas Poussin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
art historian
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intelligence officer ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Bournemouth NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| positionHeld |
Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art
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Professor of the History of Art, University of London ⓘ Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures ⓘ |
| residence |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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| sexualOrientation | gay ⓘ |
| specializedIn | Nicolas Poussin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spiedFor | Soviet Union NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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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: Anthony Blunt Description of subject: Anthony Blunt was a British art historian and former Surveyor of the Queen’s Pictures who was later exposed as a member of the Cambridge Five Soviet spy ring.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.