Crawford
E176525
Crawford is a Scottish-origin surname borne by numerous notable figures across politics, sports, arts, and entertainment.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Crawford canonical | 58 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1484729 — 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: Crawford Context triple: [Thomas Crawford, familyName, Crawford]
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A.
Leland
Leland is a masculine given name of English origin, historically associated with figures such as American industrialist and Stanford University founder Leland Stanford.
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B.
Knox
Knox is a surname most famously associated with Henry Knox, a key American Revolutionary War general and the first United States Secretary of War.
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C.
McKean
McKean is a Scottish and Irish surname borne by various notable individuals, including American Founding Father Thomas McKean.
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D.
Tilton
Tilton is a locality in the United Kingdom notable for lending its name to the territorial designation of the peerage title Baron Keynes of Tilton.
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E.
Winfield
Winfield is a masculine given name most notably borne by 19th-century American military leader Winfield Scott.
- 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: Crawford Target entity description: Crawford is a Scottish-origin surname borne by numerous notable figures across politics, sports, arts, and entertainment.
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A.
Leland
Leland is a masculine given name of English origin, historically associated with figures such as American industrialist and Stanford University founder Leland Stanford.
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B.
Knox
Knox is a surname most famously associated with Henry Knox, a key American Revolutionary War general and the first United States Secretary of War.
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C.
McKean
McKean is a Scottish and Irish surname borne by various notable individuals, including American Founding Father Thomas McKean.
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D.
Tilton
Tilton is a locality in the United Kingdom notable for lending its name to the territorial designation of the peerage title Baron Keynes of Tilton.
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E.
Winfield
Winfield is a masculine given name most notably borne by 19th-century American military leader Winfield Scott.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Crawford Description of subject: Crawford is a Scottish-origin surname borne by numerous notable figures across politics, sports, arts, and entertainment.
Referenced by (58)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Colonel William Crawford
subject linked to:
John "Plato" Crawford in Rebel Without a Cause