Maximilian Petty
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Maximilian Petty was a 17th-century English lawyer and politician who participated in the Putney Debates during the English Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maximilian Petty canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7104181 — 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: Maximilian Petty Context triple: [Putney Debates, hasKeyFigure, Maximilian Petty]
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A.
Maximilian de Angelis
Maximilian de Angelis was an Austrian-born general who served in the German Wehrmacht during World War II, holding several high-level field commands on the Eastern Front.
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B.
Max Hollein
Max Hollein is an Austrian-born museum director and art historian best known for leading major institutions in Europe and the United States, including serving as director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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C.
Thomas Davison
Thomas Davison was a 19th-century British printer and publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Lord Byron’s poem "Don Juan."
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D.
Charlie Williams
Charlie Williams was a professional basketball player recognized for his standout performance in the American Basketball Association during the late 1960s, particularly in postseason play.
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E.
Peter Cloyce
Peter Cloyce was a 17th-century Massachusetts resident known primarily as the husband of accused Salem witch trial victim Sarah Cloyce.
- 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: Maximilian Petty Target entity description: Maximilian Petty was a 17th-century English lawyer and politician who participated in the Putney Debates during the English Civil War.
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A.
Maximilian de Angelis
Maximilian de Angelis was an Austrian-born general who served in the German Wehrmacht during World War II, holding several high-level field commands on the Eastern Front.
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B.
Max Hollein
Max Hollein is an Austrian-born museum director and art historian best known for leading major institutions in Europe and the United States, including serving as director of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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C.
Thomas Davison
Thomas Davison was a 19th-century British printer and publisher best known for issuing the first edition of Lord Byron’s poem "Don Juan."
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D.
Charlie Williams
Charlie Williams was a professional basketball player recognized for his standout performance in the American Basketball Association during the late 1960s, particularly in postseason play.
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E.
Peter Cloyce
Peter Cloyce was a 17th-century Massachusetts resident known primarily as the husband of accused Salem witch trial victim Sarah Cloyce.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English lawyer
ⓘ
human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 17th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | participation in the Putney Debates ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| participantIn | English Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Putney Debates NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Maximilian Petty Description of subject: Maximilian Petty was a 17th-century English lawyer and politician who participated in the Putney Debates during the English Civil War.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.