Walter Stirling
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Walter Stirling was the father of the renowned Scottish mathematician James Stirling, known for his work in analysis and Stirling's approximation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter Stirling canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4302585 — 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: Walter Stirling Context triple: [James Stirling, father, Walter Stirling]
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A.
Walter Stott
Walter Stott was the husband of mathematician Alicia Boole Stott, who was known for her pioneering work on four-dimensional polytopes.
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B.
Sir Walter Murdoch
Sir Walter Murdoch was an influential Australian essayist, literary critic, and academic whose contributions to education and letters led to a major Western Australian university being named in his honor.
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C.
Harold Knox-Shaw
Harold Knox-Shaw was a British astronomer known for his influential academic work and leadership in observational astronomy during the early 20th century.
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D.
Charles Alling Gifford
Charles Alling Gifford was an American architect known for designing prominent early 20th-century resort hotels and other large-scale buildings in the United States.
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E.
Richard Lumsden
Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
- 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: Walter Stirling Target entity description: Walter Stirling was the father of the renowned Scottish mathematician James Stirling, known for his work in analysis and Stirling's approximation.
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A.
Walter Stott
Walter Stott was the husband of mathematician Alicia Boole Stott, who was known for her pioneering work on four-dimensional polytopes.
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B.
Sir Walter Murdoch
Sir Walter Murdoch was an influential Australian essayist, literary critic, and academic whose contributions to education and letters led to a major Western Australian university being named in his honor.
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C.
Harold Knox-Shaw
Harold Knox-Shaw was a British astronomer known for his influential academic work and leadership in observational astronomy during the early 20th century.
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D.
Charles Alling Gifford
Charles Alling Gifford was an American architect known for designing prominent early 20th-century resort hotels and other large-scale buildings in the United States.
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E.
Richard Lumsden
Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| child | James Stirling ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| father | Walter Stirling ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | mathematical analysis ⓘ |
| notableRelative | James Stirling ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Stirling’s approximation
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linked to:
Stirling's approximation
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| occupation | mathematician ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Walter Stirling Description of subject: Walter Stirling was the father of the renowned Scottish mathematician James Stirling, known for his work in analysis and Stirling's approximation.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.