Edmund Fielding
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Edmund Fielding was a British army officer and the father of novelist and playwright Henry Fielding.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edmund Fielding canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7136098 — 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: Edmund Fielding Context triple: [Henry Fielding, relative, Edmund Fielding]
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A.
Fred F. Fielding
Fred F. Fielding is an American lawyer best known for serving as White House Counsel to multiple U.S. presidents and for his role on high-profile investigative and advisory commissions.
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B.
Joseph Fields
Joseph Fields was an American playwright, screenwriter, and producer known for his work on Broadway and in Hollywood during the mid-20th century.
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C.
Gene Milford
Gene Milford was an American film editor known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films across several decades.
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D.
George Davenport
George Davenport was a 19th-century American fur trader and early settler whose influence on the region led to the city of Davenport, Iowa being named in his honor.
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E.
George Shively
George Shively was an early 20th-century Negro league outfielder known for his speed, strong defense, and key role on several prominent Black baseball teams.
- 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: Edmund Fielding Target entity description: Edmund Fielding was a British army officer and the father of novelist and playwright Henry Fielding.
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A.
Fred F. Fielding
Fred F. Fielding is an American lawyer best known for serving as White House Counsel to multiple U.S. presidents and for his role on high-profile investigative and advisory commissions.
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B.
Joseph Fields
Joseph Fields was an American playwright, screenwriter, and producer known for his work on Broadway and in Hollywood during the mid-20th century.
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C.
Gene Milford
Gene Milford was an American film editor known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films across several decades.
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D.
George Davenport
George Davenport was a 19th-century American fur trader and early settler whose influence on the region led to the city of Davenport, Iowa being named in his honor.
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E.
George Shively
George Shively was an early 20th-century Negro league outfielder known for his speed, strong defense, and key role on several prominent Black baseball teams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| child | Henry Fielding ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1676 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1741 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Fielding ⓘ |
| father |
Edmund Fielding
ⓘ
Edmund Fielding ⓘ |
| givenName | Edmund ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
colonel
ⓘ
lieutenant colonel ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Henry Fielding
ⓘ
Sarah Fielding ⓘ |
| notableWork | military service in the British Army ⓘ |
| occupation | army officer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | England ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | England ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
colonel
ⓘ
lieutenant colonel ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Sarah Gould ⓘ |
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: Edmund Fielding Description of subject: Edmund Fielding was a British army officer and the father of novelist and playwright Henry Fielding.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.