Stephen Paget
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Stephen Paget was a British surgeon and medical researcher best known for formulating the "seed and soil" theory of cancer metastasis.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stephen Paget canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13314082 — 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: Stephen Paget Context triple: [Sir James Paget, hasRelative, Stephen Paget]
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A.
Francis Paget
Francis Paget was an English theologian and Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Oxford in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Jean Paget
Jean Paget is the resilient Englishwoman protagonist of Nevil Shute’s novel "A Town Like Alice," known for her courage and resourcefulness during and after World War II.
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C.
Walter Paget
Walter Paget was a British illustrator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his work on adventure and historical novels.
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D.
Sir James Paget
Sir James Paget was a prominent 19th-century English surgeon and pathologist, renowned as one of the founders of modern pathology and for describing several medical conditions that bear his name.
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E.
George Hodgkin
George Hodgkin was a British intelligence officer and colonial administrator known for his service in the Middle East during World War I.
- 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: Stephen Paget Target entity description: Stephen Paget was a British surgeon and medical researcher best known for formulating the "seed and soil" theory of cancer metastasis.
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A.
Francis Paget
Francis Paget was an English theologian and Anglican bishop who served as Bishop of Oxford in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Jean Paget
Jean Paget is the resilient Englishwoman protagonist of Nevil Shute’s novel "A Town Like Alice," known for her courage and resourcefulness during and after World War II.
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C.
Walter Paget
Walter Paget was a British illustrator of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his work on adventure and historical novels.
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D.
Sir James Paget
Sir James Paget was a prominent 19th-century English surgeon and pathologist, renowned as one of the founders of modern pathology and for describing several medical conditions that bear his name.
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E.
George Hodgkin
George Hodgkin was a British intelligence officer and colonial administrator known for his service in the Middle East during World War I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Stephen Paget Description of subject: Stephen Paget was a British surgeon and medical researcher best known for formulating the "seed and soil" theory of cancer metastasis.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.