Michael Howells
E738290
Michael Howells was the son of English composer Herbert Howells, to whose memory the choral work "Hymnus Paradisi" is dedicated.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Michael Howells canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8348537 — 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: Michael Howells Context triple: [Hymnus Paradisi, dedicatedTo, Michael Howells]
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A.
Danny Howells
Danny Howells is a British DJ and electronic music producer known for his eclectic, progressive house and tech-house sets and long-standing presence in the global club scene.
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B.
Peter Howells
Peter Howells is a notable individual who shares the surname Howells and has achieved sufficient recognition to be distinguished as a bearer of that name.
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C.
Tim Howes
Tim Howes is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as the co-inventor of the LDAP protocol and a co-founder of the cloud services company Loudcloud (later Opsware).
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D.
Ian Howe
Ian Howe is the primary antagonist in the film "National Treasure," a wealthy and ruthless treasure hunter who betrays the protagonist in his quest for historical riches.
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E.
Alan Wheatley
Alan Wheatley was a British actor best known for his stage and screen work, including his portrayal of the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1950s television series "The Adventures of Robin Hood."
- 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: Michael Howells Target entity description: Michael Howells was the son of English composer Herbert Howells, to whose memory the choral work "Hymnus Paradisi" is dedicated.
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A.
Danny Howells
Danny Howells is a British DJ and electronic music producer known for his eclectic, progressive house and tech-house sets and long-standing presence in the global club scene.
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B.
Peter Howells
Peter Howells is a notable individual who shares the surname Howells and has achieved sufficient recognition to be distinguished as a bearer of that name.
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C.
Tim Howes
Tim Howes is an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as the co-inventor of the LDAP protocol and a co-founder of the cloud services company Loudcloud (later Opsware).
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D.
Ian Howe
Ian Howe is the primary antagonist in the film "National Treasure," a wealthy and ruthless treasure hunter who betrays the protagonist in his quest for historical riches.
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E.
Alan Wheatley
Alan Wheatley was a British actor best known for his stage and screen work, including his portrayal of the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1950s television series "The Adventures of Robin Hood."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
choral work
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| child | Michael Howells ⓘ |
| composer | Herbert Howells ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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England ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dedicatedTo | Michael Howells ⓘ |
| father | Herbert Howells ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Herbert Howells ⓘ |
| notableWorkDedicatedToMemory | Hymnus Paradisi ⓘ |
| occupation | composer ⓘ |
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: Michael Howells Description of subject: Michael Howells was the son of English composer Herbert Howells, to whose memory the choral work "Hymnus Paradisi" is dedicated.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.