Eric Liddell
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Eric Liddell was a Scottish sprinter and Christian missionary best known for winning the 400 metres gold medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics and for his principled refusal to run on Sunday.
All labels observed (6)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T294545 — 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: Eric Liddell Context triple: [1924 Summer Olympics, notableAthlete, Eric Liddell]
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Harold Abrahams
Harold Abrahams was a British sprinter and Olympic champion best known for winning the 100 metres gold medal at the 1924 Paris Games, later immortalized in the film "Chariots of Fire."
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Maurice Pryce
Maurice Pryce was a British theoretical physicist known for his contributions to quantum mechanics and his involvement in early British nuclear research efforts.
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Stan Smith
Stan Smith is the ultra-patriotic, often clueless CIA agent and main character of the animated television series "American Dad!"
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Henry Armstrong
Henry Armstrong was an American professional boxer renowned for simultaneously holding world titles in three different weight divisions during the late 1930s.
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Baron Armstrong
Baron Armstrong is a hereditary title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created for the eminent Victorian industrialist and armaments manufacturer William Armstrong.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eric Liddell Target entity description: Eric Liddell was a Scottish sprinter and Christian missionary best known for winning the 400 metres gold medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics and for his principled refusal to run on Sunday.
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A.
Harold Abrahams
Harold Abrahams was a British sprinter and Olympic champion best known for winning the 100 metres gold medal at the 1924 Paris Games, later immortalized in the film "Chariots of Fire."
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B.
Maurice Pryce
Maurice Pryce was a British theoretical physicist known for his contributions to quantum mechanics and his involvement in early British nuclear research efforts.
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C.
Stan Smith
Stan Smith is the ultra-patriotic, often clueless CIA agent and main character of the animated television series "American Dad!"
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D.
Henry Armstrong
Henry Armstrong was an American professional boxer renowned for simultaneously holding world titles in three different weight divisions during the late 1930s.
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E.
Baron Armstrong
Baron Armstrong is a hereditary title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom created for the eminent Victorian industrialist and armaments manufacturer William Armstrong.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (59)
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: Eric Liddell Description of subject: Eric Liddell was a Scottish sprinter and Christian missionary best known for winning the 400 metres gold medal at the 1924 Paris Olympics and for his principled refusal to run on Sunday.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
1924 Summer Olympics
subject surface form:
The Flying Scotsman
subject surface form:
The Flying Scotsman
this entity surface form:
Scottish Olympic gold medalist Eric Liddell
subject surface form:
The Flying Scotsman
this entity surface form:
Eric Liddell’s nickname "The Flying Scotsman"
subject surface form:
The Flying Scotsman
this entity surface form:
Eric Liddell as a devout Christian
subject surface form:
Eric Liddell Centre
subject surface form:
Chariots of Fire
this entity surface form:
Eric Liddell, Olympic champion
this entity surface form:
Eric Liddell, 400 metres gold medallist at 1924 Olympics