Roy Bowers
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Roy Bowers, better known by his craft name Robert Cochrane, was a prominent 20th-century English witch and influential figure in the development of modern traditional witchcraft.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Roy Bowers canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9486457 — 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: Roy Bowers Context triple: [Robert Cochrane, birthName, Roy Bowers]
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A.
Dale Bowers
Dale Bowers is an Anglican bishop who serves as the ecclesiastical leader of the Diocese of St Helena, overseeing the church’s ministry on the remote South Atlantic islands of St Helena and Ascension.
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B.
Douglas Crise
Douglas Crise is a film editor best known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)."
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C.
Henry Robertson Bowers
Henry Robertson Bowers was a Scottish polar explorer and Royal Indian Marine officer best known for serving as one of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s key team members on the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole.
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D.
Dennis Gates
Dennis Gates is an American college basketball coach best known for revitalizing the Missouri Tigers men's basketball program after previously leading Cleveland State.
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E.
John Bowers
John Bowers is a prominent American engineer and physicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to photonics and optoelectronics, particularly in the development of high-speed and energy-efficient optical communication technologies.
- 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: Roy Bowers Target entity description: Roy Bowers, better known by his craft name Robert Cochrane, was a prominent 20th-century English witch and influential figure in the development of modern traditional witchcraft.
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A.
Dale Bowers
Dale Bowers is an Anglican bishop who serves as the ecclesiastical leader of the Diocese of St Helena, overseeing the church’s ministry on the remote South Atlantic islands of St Helena and Ascension.
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B.
Douglas Crise
Douglas Crise is a film editor best known for his work on acclaimed movies such as "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)."
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C.
Henry Robertson Bowers
Henry Robertson Bowers was a Scottish polar explorer and Royal Indian Marine officer best known for serving as one of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s key team members on the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition to the South Pole.
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D.
Dennis Gates
Dennis Gates is an American college basketball coach best known for revitalizing the Missouri Tigers men's basketball program after previously leading Cleveland State.
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E.
John Bowers
John Bowers is a prominent American engineer and physicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to photonics and optoelectronics, particularly in the development of high-speed and energy-efficient optical communication technologies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English person
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occultist ⓘ person ⓘ witch ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Robert Cochrane ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| craftName | Robert Cochrane ⓘ |
| describedAs |
influential figure in modern traditional witchcraft
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prominent 20th-century English witch ⓘ |
| era | 20th century ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
modern traditional witchcraft
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occultism ⓘ paganism ⓘ witchcraft ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasCraftName | Robert Cochrane ⓘ |
| influenced |
modern traditional witchcraft
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traditional witchcraft revival in the 20th century ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement |
modern paganism
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traditional witchcraft ⓘ |
| name | Roy Bowers ⓘ |
| nationality |
British
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English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
development of modern traditional witchcraft
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founding a tradition of witchcraft later called Cochranian Witchcraft ⓘ |
| occupation |
occultist
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witch ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | England ⓘ |
| religion | witchcraft ⓘ |
| usedPseudonym | Robert Cochrane ⓘ |
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: Roy Bowers Description of subject: Roy Bowers, better known by his craft name Robert Cochrane, was a prominent 20th-century English witch and influential figure in the development of modern traditional witchcraft.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.