Bob Holmes
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Bob Holmes was a prominent English footballer best known as a key defender for Preston North End during their legendary "Invincibles" era in the late 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bob Holmes canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10866191 — 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: Bob Holmes Context triple: [The Invincibles (Preston North End), notablePlayer, Bob Holmes]
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A.
Peter Holmes
Peter Holmes is a young Australian naval officer and family man in Nevil Shute’s post-apocalyptic novel "On the Beach," whose quiet domestic life contrasts with the looming global catastrophe.
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B.
Brad Holmes
Brad Holmes is an American football executive best known for leading the Detroit Lions’ roster rebuild and organizational turnaround as their general manager.
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C.
Stephen Holbrook
Stephen Holbrook is a notable individual recognized for his contributions in his professional field, though specific widely known details about his work are not clearly established from the given information.
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D.
Steve Holmes
Steve Holmes is a Hungarian-born adult film actor and director known for his extensive career in the European and American pornography industries.
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E.
Bob Hanson
Bob Hanson is the gruff, world-weary owner of a remote desert diner who becomes an unlikely defender of humanity in the supernatural action-horror film "Legion" (2010).
- 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: Bob Holmes Target entity description: Bob Holmes was a prominent English footballer best known as a key defender for Preston North End during their legendary "Invincibles" era in the late 19th century.
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A.
Peter Holmes
Peter Holmes is a young Australian naval officer and family man in Nevil Shute’s post-apocalyptic novel "On the Beach," whose quiet domestic life contrasts with the looming global catastrophe.
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B.
Brad Holmes
Brad Holmes is an American football executive best known for leading the Detroit Lions’ roster rebuild and organizational turnaround as their general manager.
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C.
Stephen Holbrook
Stephen Holbrook is a notable individual recognized for his contributions in his professional field, though specific widely known details about his work are not clearly established from the given information.
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D.
Steve Holmes
Steve Holmes is a Hungarian-born adult film actor and director known for his extensive career in the European and American pornography industries.
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E.
Bob Hanson
Bob Hanson is the gruff, world-weary owner of a remote desert diner who becomes an unlikely defender of humanity in the supernatural action-horror film "Legion" (2010).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
association football defender
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footballer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activityStartTime | 19th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Preston, Lancashire
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linked to:
Preston
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| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | late 19th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Holmes ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | professional football ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Bob ⓘ |
| hasRole |
defender
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key player in Preston North End defence ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | part of one of the earliest dominant teams in English football ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| league | English Football League ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam | Preston North End F.C. ⓘ |
| name | Bob Holmes ⓘ |
| nationality | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a key defender for Preston North End
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playing for Preston North End during the "Invincibles" era ⓘ |
| occupation | footballer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | English domestic football competitions ⓘ |
| partOf |
Preston North End "Invincibles" team
ⓘ
linked to:
Preston North End F.C.
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| playedFor | Preston North End F.C. ⓘ |
| positionPlayed | defender ⓘ |
| sport | association football ⓘ |
| sportCountry | England ⓘ |
| teamNickNameContext |
"Invincibles" Preston North End side
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linked to:
Preston North End F.C.
|
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: Bob Holmes Description of subject: Bob Holmes was a prominent English footballer best known as a key defender for Preston North End during their legendary "Invincibles" era in the late 19th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
The Invincibles