Robert Timmins
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Robert Timmins is a central character in the British period drama "Lark Rise to Candleford," portrayed as a principled stonemason and devoted family man navigating rural life in 19th-century England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Timmins canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11235652 — 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: Robert Timmins Context triple: [Lark Rise to Candleford, hasMainCharacter, Robert Timmins]
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A.
Ian Gilroy
Ian Gilroy is a musician best known as a former member of the New Zealand rock band The Swingers.
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B.
Peter Gillane
Peter Gillane is a central young male character in the Irish nationalist play "Cathleen ni Houlihan," whose impending marriage and subsequent attraction to patriotic sacrifice highlight the drama’s themes of duty and nationalism.
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C.
Richard Jemmons
Richard Jemmons is a fictional, fast-talking political strategist and narrator in Joe Klein’s novel (and its film adaptation) "Primary Colors," loosely inspired by real-life consultant James Carville.
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D.
David Semple
David Semple was a British bacteriologist best known for developing an early anti-rabies vaccine while serving in the Indian Medical Service.
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E.
Stephen McCauley
Stephen McCauley is an American novelist known for his witty, character-driven fiction exploring contemporary relationships and urban life.
- 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: Robert Timmins Target entity description: Robert Timmins is a central character in the British period drama "Lark Rise to Candleford," portrayed as a principled stonemason and devoted family man navigating rural life in 19th-century England.
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A.
Ian Gilroy
Ian Gilroy is a musician best known as a former member of the New Zealand rock band The Swingers.
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B.
Peter Gillane
Peter Gillane is a central young male character in the Irish nationalist play "Cathleen ni Houlihan," whose impending marriage and subsequent attraction to patriotic sacrifice highlight the drama’s themes of duty and nationalism.
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C.
Richard Jemmons
Richard Jemmons is a fictional, fast-talking political strategist and narrator in Joe Klein’s novel (and its film adaptation) "Primary Colors," loosely inspired by real-life consultant James Carville.
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D.
David Semple
David Semple was a British bacteriologist best known for developing an early anti-rabies vaccine while serving in the Indian Medical Service.
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E.
Stephen McCauley
Stephen McCauley is an American novelist known for his witty, character-driven fiction exploring contemporary relationships and urban life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
fictional character
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television character ⓘ |
| adaptedFor | television ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Lark Rise to Candleford ⓘ |
| basedOn |
Robert Timmins (character in Flora Thompson’s Lark Rise trilogy)
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linked to:
Robert Timmins in Lark Rise to Candleford
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| child |
Annie Timmins
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Edmund Timmins ⓘ Ethel Timmins ⓘ Laura Timmins ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | England ⓘ |
| createdBy | Flora Thompson ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse | Lark Rise to Candleford ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | period drama ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| medium | television series ⓘ |
| networkOfFirstBroadcast | BBC One ⓘ |
| notableTrait |
commitment to workers’ rights
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loyalty to family ⓘ strong sense of justice ⓘ |
| occupation | stonemason ⓘ |
| portrayedAs |
devoted family man
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idealistic ⓘ politically conscious ⓘ principled ⓘ working-class ⓘ |
| portrayedBy | Brendan Coyle ⓘ |
| residence | Lark Rise ⓘ |
| settingPeriod | 19th-century England ⓘ |
| spouse | Emma Timmins ⓘ |
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: Robert Timmins Description of subject: Robert Timmins is a central character in the British period drama "Lark Rise to Candleford," portrayed as a principled stonemason and devoted family man navigating rural life in 19th-century England.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.