Robert of Ketton
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Robert of Ketton was a 12th-century English scholar, translator, and cleric best known for producing one of the earliest Latin translations of the Qur’an in medieval Europe.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert of Ketton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7260034 — 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: Robert of Ketton Context triple: [Peter the Venerable, collaboratedWith, Robert of Ketton]
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A.
William of Hatfield
William of Hatfield was a short-lived English prince of the 14th century, one of the younger sons of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault.
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B.
Robert de Eglesfield
Robert de Eglesfield was a 14th-century English cleric and royal chaplain best known as the founder of The Queen’s College, Oxford.
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Ranulf le Meschin
Ranulf le Meschin was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader of the early 12th century who became Earl of Chester and played a key role in consolidating Norman control in northern England.
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D.
William fitz Duncan
William fitz Duncan was a 12th-century Scottish prince and military leader, notable as a powerful claimant to the Scottish throne and a key figure in the politics of the Kingdom of Alba.
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E.
Hugh de Balsham
Hugh de Balsham was a 13th-century Bishop of Ely who played a key role in the early development of collegiate education at the University of Cambridge.
- 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: Robert of Ketton Target entity description: Robert of Ketton was a 12th-century English scholar, translator, and cleric best known for producing one of the earliest Latin translations of the Qur’an in medieval Europe.
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A.
William of Hatfield
William of Hatfield was a short-lived English prince of the 14th century, one of the younger sons of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault.
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B.
Robert de Eglesfield
Robert de Eglesfield was a 14th-century English cleric and royal chaplain best known as the founder of The Queen’s College, Oxford.
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C.
Ranulf le Meschin
Ranulf le Meschin was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader of the early 12th century who became Earl of Chester and played a key role in consolidating Norman control in northern England.
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D.
William fitz Duncan
William fitz Duncan was a 12th-century Scottish prince and military leader, notable as a powerful claimant to the Scottish throne and a key figure in the politics of the Kingdom of Alba.
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E.
Hugh de Balsham
Hugh de Balsham was a 13th-century Bishop of Ely who played a key role in the early development of collegiate education at the University of Cambridge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Latinist
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cleric ⓘ human ⓘ medieval astronomer ⓘ scholar ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Robert of Chester
NERFINISHED
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Robertus Ketenensis NERFINISHED ⓘ Robertus Retinensis NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 12th century ⓘ |
| clericalStatus | canon ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Hermann of Carinthia
NERFINISHED
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Peter the Venerable NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| commissionedBy | Peter the Venerable NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Paris NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Islamic studies
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astronomy ⓘ mathematics ⓘ theology ⓘ |
| floruit | 12th century ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
early Latin translation of the Qur'an
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translations from Arabic into Latin ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Arabic
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English ⓘ Latin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Latin translation of al-Khwarizmi's astronomical tables
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Latin translation of an Arabic version of Ptolemy's Almagest ⓘ Lex Mahumet pseudoprophete NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
astronomer
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cleric ⓘ mathematician ⓘ scholar ⓘ translator ⓘ |
| partOf | Toledo School of Translators NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kingdom of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| translatedFrom | Arabic ⓘ |
| translatedTo | Latin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Kingdom of Navarre
NERFINISHED
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Spain 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: Robert of Ketton Description of subject: Robert of Ketton was a 12th-century English scholar, translator, and cleric best known for producing one of the earliest Latin translations of the Qur’an in medieval Europe.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.