John Bacon (sculptor, born 1740)
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John Bacon (born 1740) was an influential English sculptor of the late 18th century, noted for his neoclassical monuments and church memorials.
All labels observed (1)
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10080251 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Bacon (sculptor, born 1740) Context triple: [John Bacon (sculptor, born 1777), father, John Bacon (sculptor, born 1740)]
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Jean-Antoine Houdon
Jean-Antoine Houdon was an 18th-century French neoclassical sculptor renowned for his realistic portrait busts of leading Enlightenment figures such as Voltaire, Rousseau, and George Washington.
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Francis Leggatt Chantrey
Francis Leggatt Chantrey was a prominent early 19th-century English sculptor renowned for his portrait busts and public statues of leading political and cultural figures.
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John Rogers (sculptor)
John Rogers was a 19th-century American sculptor best known for his popular plaster "Rogers Groups," which depicted sentimental and domestic scenes accessible to middle-class audiences.
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Francis Grose
Francis Grose was an 18th-century British antiquary, draughtsman, and author best known for his illustrated works on ancient monuments and his influential slang dictionary.
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Charles Walpole
Charles Walpole is a notable individual who shares the distinguished Walpole surname, historically associated with prominent British political and social figures.
- 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: John Bacon (sculptor, born 1740) Target entity description: John Bacon (born 1740) was an influential English sculptor of the late 18th century, noted for his neoclassical monuments and church memorials.
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A.
Jean-Antoine Houdon
Jean-Antoine Houdon was an 18th-century French neoclassical sculptor renowned for his realistic portrait busts of leading Enlightenment figures such as Voltaire, Rousseau, and George Washington.
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B.
Francis Leggatt Chantrey
Francis Leggatt Chantrey was a prominent early 19th-century English sculptor renowned for his portrait busts and public statues of leading political and cultural figures.
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C.
John Rogers (sculptor)
John Rogers was a 19th-century American sculptor best known for his popular plaster "Rogers Groups," which depicted sentimental and domestic scenes accessible to middle-class audiences.
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D.
Francis Grose
Francis Grose was an 18th-century British antiquary, draughtsman, and author best known for his illustrated works on ancient monuments and his influential slang dictionary.
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E.
Charles Walpole
Charles Walpole is a notable individual who shares the distinguished Walpole surname, historically associated with prominent British political and social figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
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: John Bacon (sculptor, born 1740) Description of subject: John Bacon (born 1740) was an influential English sculptor of the late 18th century, noted for his neoclassical monuments and church memorials.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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John Bacon