Montague Rhodes James
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Montague Rhodes James was an English medievalist scholar and author best known for his influential ghost stories that helped define the modern English ghost story tradition.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Montague Rhodes James canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11203747 — 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: Montague Rhodes James Context triple: [M. R. James, fullName, Montague Rhodes James]
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A.
Edward Milford
Edward Milford was a senior Australian Army officer and World War II commander who played a key leadership role in the Pacific theatre.
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B.
Ernst Robinson
Ernst Robinson is one of the adventurous sons in the classic family castaway story "Swiss Family Robinson," portrayed as an intelligent and resourceful young man.
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C.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Martin Farquhar Tupper was a 19th-century English poet and popular moralist best known for his once widely read didactic work "Proverbial Philosophy."
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D.
J. M. Macdonnell
J. M. Macdonnell was a Canadian academic and administrator who served as a chancellor at Carleton University.
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E.
Richard St George Moore
Richard St George Moore was a British architect best known for designing the iconic Brighton Palace Pier in England.
- 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: Montague Rhodes James Target entity description: Montague Rhodes James was an English medievalist scholar and author best known for his influential ghost stories that helped define the modern English ghost story tradition.
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A.
Edward Milford
Edward Milford was a senior Australian Army officer and World War II commander who played a key leadership role in the Pacific theatre.
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B.
Ernst Robinson
Ernst Robinson is one of the adventurous sons in the classic family castaway story "Swiss Family Robinson," portrayed as an intelligent and resourceful young man.
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C.
Martin Farquhar Tupper
Martin Farquhar Tupper was a 19th-century English poet and popular moralist best known for his once widely read didactic work "Proverbial Philosophy."
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D.
J. M. Macdonnell
J. M. Macdonnell was a Canadian academic and administrator who served as a chancellor at Carleton University.
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E.
Richard St George Moore
Richard St George Moore was a British architect best known for designing the iconic Brighton Palace Pier in England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (58)
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: Montague Rhodes James Description of subject: Montague Rhodes James was an English medievalist scholar and author best known for his influential ghost stories that helped define the modern English ghost story tradition.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.