Anne Stirling
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Anne Stirling is known primarily as the mother of the renowned Scottish mathematician and architect James Stirling.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Anne Stirling canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4302586 — 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: Anne Stirling Context triple: [James Stirling, mother, Anne Stirling]
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A.
Margaret Lindsay
Margaret Lindsay was a Scottish noblewoman best known as the wife of David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk, and a member of the influential Lindsay family.
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B.
Mary Orr
Mary Orr was an American writer and playwright best known for her short story “The Wisdom of Eve,” which inspired the classic film All About Eve.
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C.
Mary Stewart, Countess of Angus
Mary Stewart, Countess of Angus, was a medieval Scottish noblewoman and daughter of King Robert III of Scotland who played a role in the dynastic alliances of the Scottish royal family.
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D.
Margaret Stewart
Margaret Stewart was a Scottish noblewoman of the late 16th century who became the wife of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, a prominent English admiral under Queen Elizabeth I.
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E.
Margaret Stewart
Margaret Stewart was a 16th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the wife of the Protestant reformer John Knox.
- 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: Anne Stirling Target entity description: Anne Stirling is known primarily as the mother of the renowned Scottish mathematician and architect James Stirling.
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A.
Margaret Lindsay
Margaret Lindsay was a Scottish noblewoman best known as the wife of David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk, and a member of the influential Lindsay family.
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B.
Mary Orr
Mary Orr was an American writer and playwright best known for her short story “The Wisdom of Eve,” which inspired the classic film All About Eve.
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C.
Mary Stewart, Countess of Angus
Mary Stewart, Countess of Angus, was a medieval Scottish noblewoman and daughter of King Robert III of Scotland who played a role in the dynastic alliances of the Scottish royal family.
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D.
Margaret Stewart
Margaret Stewart was a Scottish noblewoman of the late 16th century who became the wife of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, a prominent English admiral under Queen Elizabeth I.
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E.
Margaret Stewart
Margaret Stewart was a 16th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the wife of the Protestant reformer John Knox.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (7)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| child | James Stirling ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Scotland ⓘ |
| mother | Anne Stirling ⓘ |
| occupation | mathematician ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Anne Stirling Description of subject: Anne Stirling is known primarily as the mother of the renowned Scottish mathematician and architect James Stirling.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Anne Stirling