Henry Liddell
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Henry Liddell was a 19th-century English classical scholar, dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and co-author of the standard Greek–English lexicon, as well as the father of Alice Liddell, inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s "Alice" stories.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry Liddell canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8380809 — 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: Henry Liddell Context triple: [Liddell, hasNotableBearer, Henry Liddell]
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A.
John Davys
John Davys is an individual known primarily as an alternate or variant name for John Davis, whose specific notability is not clearly distinguished under this spelling.
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B.
Arthur Lyttelton
Arthur Lyttelton was a 19th-century English Anglican clergyman and academic who became the first Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge.
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C.
Richard Blanshard
Richard Blanshard was a British colonial administrator who became the first governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island in the mid-19th century.
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D.
Edmund Gibson
Edmund Gibson was an English bishop and scholar of the early 18th century, best known for serving as Bishop of Lincoln and later Bishop of London and for his influential ecclesiastical and legal writings.
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E.
George Swinburne
George Swinburne was an Australian engineer, politician, and education advocate whose contributions to technical and higher education led to institutions such as Swinburne Technical College bearing his name.
- 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: Henry Liddell Target entity description: Henry Liddell was a 19th-century English classical scholar, dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and co-author of the standard Greek–English lexicon, as well as the father of Alice Liddell, inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s "Alice" stories.
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A.
John Davys
John Davys is an individual known primarily as an alternate or variant name for John Davis, whose specific notability is not clearly distinguished under this spelling.
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B.
Arthur Lyttelton
Arthur Lyttelton was a 19th-century English Anglican clergyman and academic who became the first Master of Selwyn College, Cambridge.
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C.
Richard Blanshard
Richard Blanshard was a British colonial administrator who became the first governor of the Colony of Vancouver Island in the mid-19th century.
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D.
Edmund Gibson
Edmund Gibson was an English bishop and scholar of the early 18th century, best known for serving as Bishop of Lincoln and later Bishop of London and for his influential ecclesiastical and legal writings.
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E.
George Swinburne
George Swinburne was an Australian engineer, politician, and education advocate whose contributions to technical and higher education led to institutions such as Swinburne Technical College bearing his name.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglican priest
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academic administrator ⓘ classical scholar ⓘ human ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Alice Liddell
NERFINISHED
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Edith Liddell NERFINISHED ⓘ Lorina Liddell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthor | Robert Scott NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1811-02-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1898-01-18 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Charterhouse School
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Christ Church, Oxford ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Liddell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Ancient Greek language
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
classics ⓘ |
| fullName | Henry George Liddell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inspiredWork | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (indirectly, through his daughter Alice Liddell) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Ancient Greek
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English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Christ Church, Oxford
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
University of Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | co-authoring the standard Greek–English lexicon ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Alice Liddell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | A Greek–English Lexicon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
classical philologist
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clergyman ⓘ lexicographer ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
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London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
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| placeOfDeath |
Ascot
NERFINISHED
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Berkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ England ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Dean of Christ Church, Oxford
NERFINISHED
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Headmaster of Westminster School ⓘ Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford ⓘ |
| religion | Church of England ⓘ |
| residence |
Christ Church, Oxford
NERFINISHED
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Oxford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Lorina Reeve NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Henry Liddell Description of subject: Henry Liddell was a 19th-century English classical scholar, dean of Christ Church, Oxford, and co-author of the standard Greek–English lexicon, as well as the father of Alice Liddell, inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s "Alice" stories.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.