Bodley
E791481
Bodley is an English surname most famously associated with Sir Thomas Bodley, the founder of Oxford’s Bodleian Library.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Bodley canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9332344 — 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: Bodley Context triple: [Thomas Bodley, familyName, Bodley]
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A.
Oriel
Oriel is the commonly used short name for Oriel College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford.
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B.
Oriel
Oriel is a surname most notably associated with Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Oriel, the late wife of British naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough.
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C.
Magdalen Carnegie
Magdalen Carnegie was a 17th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the wife of James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, a prominent Royalist leader during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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D.
Heythrop
Heythrop is a small rural village in West Oxfordshire, England, known for its historic country estate and tranquil countryside setting.
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E.
Westcott House
Westcott House is a historic Prairie School-style residence in Springfield, Ohio, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and now preserved as a museum and cultural site.
- 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: Bodley Target entity description: Bodley is an English surname most famously associated with Sir Thomas Bodley, the founder of Oxford’s Bodleian Library.
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A.
Oriel
Oriel is the commonly used short name for Oriel College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford.
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B.
Oriel
Oriel is a surname most notably associated with Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Oriel, the late wife of British naturalist and broadcaster David Attenborough.
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C.
Magdalen Carnegie
Magdalen Carnegie was a 17th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the wife of James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, a prominent Royalist leader during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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D.
Heythrop
Heythrop is a small rural village in West Oxfordshire, England, known for its historic country estate and tranquil countryside setting.
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E.
Westcott House
Westcott House is a historic Prairie School-style residence in Springfield, Ohio, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and now preserved as a museum and cultural site.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
research library ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| country | England ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Magdalen College, Oxford
ⓘ
University of Oxford ⓘ |
| familyName | Bodley ⓘ |
| founded | Bodleian Library ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| hasEtymology | English origin ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | Thomas Bodley ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Oxford ⓘ |
| notableWork | Bodleian Library ⓘ |
| occupation |
diplomat
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library founder ⓘ scholar ⓘ |
| partOf | University of Oxford ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Member of Parliament of England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Australia
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Canada ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Bodley Description of subject: Bodley is an English surname most famously associated with Sir Thomas Bodley, the founder of Oxford’s Bodleian Library.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.