Hector the Hero
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Hector the Hero is a famous Scottish slow air and lament composed for the fiddle by James Scott Skinner in memory of Major-General Hector MacDonald.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hector the Hero canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T19306737 — 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: Hector the Hero Context triple: [James Scott Skinner, notableWork, Hector the Hero]
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A.
Hector
Hector was a British Royal Navy ship of the line that fought in the 1782 Battle of the Saintes during the American Revolutionary War.
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B.
Hector
Hector is a family name most notably borne by German entrepreneur and SAP co-founder Hans-Werner Hector.
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C.
Hector
Hector is a central character in Alan Bennett’s play and film "The History Boys," portrayed as an eccentric, inspiring, and morally complex English teacher.
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D.
Hector
Hector is the noble Trojan prince and greatest warrior of Troy in Greek mythology, renowned for his bravery and tragic death in Homer's Iliad.
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E.
Triumphant Achilles
Triumphant Achilles is a famous neoclassical statue depicting the Greek hero Achilles in a victorious pose, prominently displayed at the Achilleion Palace in Corfu, Greece.
- 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: Hector the Hero Target entity description: Hector the Hero is a famous Scottish slow air and lament composed for the fiddle by James Scott Skinner in memory of Major-General Hector MacDonald.
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A.
Hector
Hector was a British Royal Navy ship of the line that fought in the 1782 Battle of the Saintes during the American Revolutionary War.
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B.
Hector
Hector is a family name most notably borne by German entrepreneur and SAP co-founder Hans-Werner Hector.
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C.
Hector
Hector is a central character in Alan Bennett’s play and film "The History Boys," portrayed as an eccentric, inspiring, and morally complex English teacher.
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D.
Hector
Hector is the noble Trojan prince and greatest warrior of Troy in Greek mythology, renowned for his bravery and tragic death in Homer's Iliad.
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E.
Triumphant Achilles
Triumphant Achilles is a famous neoclassical statue depicting the Greek hero Achilles in a victorious pose, prominently displayed at the Achilleion Palace in Corfu, Greece.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.