Speirs + Major
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Speirs + Major is a renowned UK-based lighting design practice known for creating innovative architectural and urban lighting schemes for landmark projects worldwide.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Speirs + Major canonical | 2 |
| Speirs and Major Associates | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1116060 — 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: Speirs + Major Context triple: [The Shard, lightingDesigner, Speirs + Major]
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A.
Jersey Marine
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B.
MacAndrews & Forbes
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C.
Hornblower Cruises
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D.
Meyer London
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E.
Tartan Racing
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- 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: Speirs + Major Target entity description: Speirs + Major is a renowned UK-based lighting design practice known for creating innovative architectural and urban lighting schemes for landmark projects worldwide.
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A.
Jersey Marine
Jersey Marine is a coastal village in South Wales known for its proximity to Swansea Bay and its historic tower landmark.
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B.
MacAndrews & Forbes
MacAndrews & Forbes is a private holding company controlled by Ronald Perelman, known for its diversified investments across industries such as consumer products, entertainment, and defense.
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C.
Hornblower Cruises
Hornblower Cruises is a maritime transportation and leisure company that operates passenger ferry and sightseeing services, including managing the NYC Ferry system.
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D.
Meyer London
Meyer London was an early 20th-century American socialist politician and labor lawyer who served in the U.S. House of Representatives as one of the few Socialists ever elected to Congress.
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E.
Tartan Racing
Tartan Racing is an autonomous vehicle research team formed by Carnegie Mellon University and General Motors that gained prominence by winning the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
design consultancy
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lighting design practice ⓘ |
| approach |
emphasis on light as a design material
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integrated design with architecture and landscape ⓘ |
| basedIn | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| collaboratesWith |
architectural practices
ⓘ
engineering consultancies ⓘ urban design practices ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| field |
architectural lighting
ⓘ
lighting design ⓘ urban lighting ⓘ |
| focusesOn |
human experience of light
ⓘ
night-time identity of cities ⓘ sustainable lighting solutions ⓘ |
| formerName |
Speirs + Major
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Speirs and Major Associates
|
| foundedBy |
Jonathan Speirs
ⓘ
Mark Major ⓘ |
| hasClientType |
architects
ⓘ
developers ⓘ public authorities ⓘ urban planners ⓘ |
| industry | architecture and design ⓘ |
| knownAs | Speirs and Major ⓘ |
| location |
Edinburgh
ⓘ
London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
|
| notableFor |
innovative architectural lighting
ⓘ
landmark international projects ⓘ urban-scale lighting strategies ⓘ |
| operatesIn |
Asia
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Europe ⓘ Middle East ⓘ North America ⓘ |
| scope | international projects ⓘ |
| service |
concept lighting design
ⓘ
detailed lighting design ⓘ lighting consultancy ⓘ lighting strategy and masterplanning ⓘ on-site lighting coordination ⓘ visualisation and mock-ups ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
architectural lighting schemes
ⓘ
brand and experience lighting ⓘ daylight design ⓘ exterior lighting design ⓘ interior lighting design ⓘ lighting masterplanning ⓘ urban lighting schemes ⓘ |
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: Speirs + Major Description of subject: Speirs + Major is a renowned UK-based lighting design practice known for creating innovative architectural and urban lighting schemes for landmark projects worldwide.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Speirs and Major Associates
this entity surface form:
Speirs and Major Associates