Professor Horatio Smith
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Professor Horatio Smith is the fictional, eccentric Cambridge archaeologist who secretly rescues victims from the Nazis in the 1941 British film "Pimpernel Smith."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Professor Horatio Smith canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10493458 — 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: Professor Horatio Smith Context triple: [Pimpernel Smith, character, Professor Horatio Smith]
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A.
Sir Horace Cutler
Sir Horace Cutler was a British Conservative politician best known for leading the Greater London Council in the late 1970s and shaping London’s urban and transport policies during his tenure.
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B.
Joseph DeCamp
Joseph DeCamp was an American painter associated with the Boston School, known for his refined portraits and impressionistic interiors.
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C.
Robert Coddington
Robert Coddington is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the Coddington surname.
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D.
Henry Basil Barrow
Henry Basil Barrow was the father of infamous American outlaw Clyde Barrow, associated with the Barrow gang during the Great Depression.
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E.
Robert T. Ironside
Robert T. Ironside is the tough, wheelchair-using former San Francisco police chief who serves as the brilliant, unorthodox detective protagonist of the classic TV crime drama "Ironside."
- 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: Professor Horatio Smith Target entity description: Professor Horatio Smith is the fictional, eccentric Cambridge archaeologist who secretly rescues victims from the Nazis in the 1941 British film "Pimpernel Smith."
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A.
Sir Horace Cutler
Sir Horace Cutler was a British Conservative politician best known for leading the Greater London Council in the late 1970s and shaping London’s urban and transport policies during his tenure.
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B.
Joseph DeCamp
Joseph DeCamp was an American painter associated with the Boston School, known for his refined portraits and impressionistic interiors.
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C.
Robert Coddington
Robert Coddington is a notable individual distinguished enough to be specifically recognized as a prominent bearer of the Coddington surname.
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D.
Henry Basil Barrow
Henry Basil Barrow was the father of infamous American outlaw Clyde Barrow, associated with the Barrow gang during the Great Depression.
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E.
Robert T. Ironside
Robert T. Ironside is the tough, wheelchair-using former San Francisco police chief who serves as the brilliant, unorthodox detective protagonist of the classic TV crime drama "Ironside."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
ⓘ
film character ⓘ |
| alignment | anti-Nazi resistance ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Pimpernel Smith ⓘ |
| basedOn | The Scarlet Pimpernel archetype ⓘ |
| characterTrait |
brave
ⓘ
eccentric ⓘ resourceful ⓘ secretive ⓘ |
| countryOfOriginOfWork | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdFor | Pimpernel Smith ⓘ |
| employer |
University of Cambridge
ⓘ
linked to:
Cambridge University
|
| enemy |
Nazis
ⓘ
linked to:
Nazi Party
|
| fictionalUniverse | Pimpernel Smith ⓘ |
| filmDirectorOfWork | Leslie Howard ⓘ |
| filmReleaseYearOfWork | 1941 ⓘ |
| genre |
spy film character
ⓘ
war film character ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | English ⓘ |
| mainActivity | rescuing victims from the Nazis ⓘ |
| medium | film ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor |
clandestine rescue operations
ⓘ
posing as an absent-minded academic ⓘ |
| occupation | archaeologist ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Leslie Howard ⓘ |
| setting |
Cambridge
ⓘ
Nazi Germany ⓘ |
| timePeriodOfFiction | World War II ⓘ |
| yearOfAppearance | 1941 ⓘ |
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: Professor Horatio Smith Description of subject: Professor Horatio Smith is the fictional, eccentric Cambridge archaeologist who secretly rescues victims from the Nazis in the 1941 British film "Pimpernel Smith."
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.