Scott
E16784
Scott is the middle name of Francis Scott Key, the American lawyer and poet who wrote the lyrics to the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scott canonical | 28 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T132912 — 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: Scott Context triple: [Francis Scott Key, middleName, Scott]
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A.
Douglas
Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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B.
Davis
Davis is an underground rapid transit station in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Boston’s MBTA Red Line.
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C.
Stephen
Stephen is the middle name of Harold Stephen Black, an American electrical engineer known for inventing the negative feedback amplifier.
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D.
Clark
Clark is the middle name of Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States.
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E.
Marshall
Marshall is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures, including military leaders, politicians, and artists.
- 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: Scott Target entity description: Scott is the middle name of Francis Scott Key, the American lawyer and poet who wrote the lyrics to the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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A.
Douglas
Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
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B.
Davis
Davis is an underground rapid transit station in Somerville, Massachusetts, on Boston’s MBTA Red Line.
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C.
Stephen
Stephen is the middle name of Harold Stephen Black, an American electrical engineer known for inventing the negative feedback amplifier.
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D.
Clark
Clark is the middle name of Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States.
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E.
Marshall
Marshall is a common English surname borne by numerous notable figures, including military leaders, politicians, and artists.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
middle name ⓘ national anthem ⓘ |
| componentOfFullName | Francis Scott Key ⓘ |
| country | United States of America ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| fullName | Francis Scott Key ⓘ |
| givenNameUsage | English-language name ⓘ |
| hasMiddleName | Scott self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| isMiddleNameOf | Francis Scott Key ⓘ |
| lyricsBy | Francis Scott Key ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Star-Spangled Banner ⓘ |
| occupation |
lawyer
ⓘ
poet ⓘ |
| wroteLyricsFor | The Star-Spangled Banner ⓘ |
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: Scott Description of subject: Scott is the middle name of Francis Scott Key, the American lawyer and poet who wrote the lyrics to the United States national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Francis Scott Key
subject surface form:
Winfield Scott
subject surface form:
MacKenzie Scott