D. H. Friston
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D. H. Friston was a 19th-century British illustrator best known for creating some of the earliest published illustrations of Sherlock Holmes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| D. H. Friston canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8935069 — 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: D. H. Friston Context triple: [A Study in Scarlet, hasIllustrator, D. H. Friston]
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A.
Christof Koch
Christof Koch is a neuroscientist renowned for his pioneering work on the neural basis of consciousness and long collaboration with Francis Crick.
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B.
Marcus Peter Blakemore
Marcus Peter Blakemore was an American educator and civic leader best known as one of the original founders of the historically Black fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi.
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C.
Terrence Sejnowski
Terrence Sejnowski is a pioneering computational neuroscientist and machine learning researcher known for foundational contributions to neural networks and learning algorithms.
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D.
Wolfram Schultz
Wolfram Schultz is a neuroscientist renowned for his pioneering research on dopamine neurons and their role in reward prediction and learning.
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E.
Olaf Sporns
Olaf Sporns is a neuroscientist known for his pioneering work in network neuroscience and the study of brain connectivity.
- 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: D. H. Friston Target entity description: D. H. Friston was a 19th-century British illustrator best known for creating some of the earliest published illustrations of Sherlock Holmes.
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A.
Christof Koch
Christof Koch is a neuroscientist renowned for his pioneering work on the neural basis of consciousness and long collaboration with Francis Crick.
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B.
Marcus Peter Blakemore
Marcus Peter Blakemore was an American educator and civic leader best known as one of the original founders of the historically Black fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi.
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C.
Terrence Sejnowski
Terrence Sejnowski is a pioneering computational neuroscientist and machine learning researcher known for foundational contributions to neural networks and learning algorithms.
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D.
Wolfram Schultz
Wolfram Schultz is a neuroscientist renowned for his pioneering research on dopamine neurons and their role in reward prediction and learning.
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E.
Olaf Sporns
Olaf Sporns is a neuroscientist known for his pioneering work in network neuroscience and the study of brain connectivity.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
19th-century artist
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British person ⓘ illustrator ⓘ |
| activeIn | Victorian era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| describedAs | one of the earliest published illustrators of Sherlock Holmes ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
illustration
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visual arts ⓘ |
| genre |
book illustration
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magazine illustration ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor | early illustrations of Sherlock Holmes ⓘ |
| notableWork | illustrations for early Sherlock Holmes stories ⓘ |
| occupation | illustrator ⓘ |
| workPeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: D. H. Friston Description of subject: D. H. Friston was a 19th-century British illustrator best known for creating some of the earliest published illustrations of Sherlock Holmes.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.