David Balfour
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David Balfour is the young Scottish protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "Kidnapped," whose coming-of-age journey involves adventure, betrayal, and a struggle for justice in 18th-century Scotland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Balfour canonical | 17 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13437464 — 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: David Balfour Context triple: [Kidnapped, mainCharacter, David Balfour]
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A.
Basil Hood
Basil Hood was a British dramatist and librettist best known for his work on Edwardian musical comedies and collaborations with composers such as Arthur Sullivan.
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B.
John Blackthorne
John Blackthorne is the English navigator and samurai-in-training protagonist of James Clavell’s novel "Shōgun," who becomes deeply entangled in the political and cultural intrigues of feudal Japan.
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C.
Baron Clyde
Baron Clyde is the judicial title of Colin Campbell, a prominent Scottish lawyer and judge who served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain in the mid-19th century.
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D.
Lord Forbes
Lord Forbes is a Scottish peerage title, one of the oldest in Scotland, traditionally held by the chief of Clan Forbes.
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E.
Benjamin d’Urban
Benjamin d’Urban was a 19th-century British army officer and colonial administrator whose name was given to the South African city of Durban.
- 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: David Balfour Target entity description: David Balfour is the young Scottish protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "Kidnapped," whose coming-of-age journey involves adventure, betrayal, and a struggle for justice in 18th-century Scotland.
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A.
Basil Hood
Basil Hood was a British dramatist and librettist best known for his work on Edwardian musical comedies and collaborations with composers such as Arthur Sullivan.
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B.
John Blackthorne
John Blackthorne is the English navigator and samurai-in-training protagonist of James Clavell’s novel "Shōgun," who becomes deeply entangled in the political and cultural intrigues of feudal Japan.
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C.
Baron Clyde
Baron Clyde is the judicial title of Colin Campbell, a prominent Scottish lawyer and judge who served as Lord Chancellor of Great Britain in the mid-19th century.
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D.
Lord Forbes
Lord Forbes is a Scottish peerage title, one of the oldest in Scotland, traditionally held by the chief of Clan Forbes.
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E.
Benjamin d’Urban
Benjamin d’Urban was a 19th-century British army officer and colonial administrator whose name was given to the South African city of Durban.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: David Balfour Description of subject: David Balfour is the young Scottish protagonist of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel "Kidnapped," whose coming-of-age journey involves adventure, betrayal, and a struggle for justice in 18th-century Scotland.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.