Douglas Hadow
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Douglas Hadow was a young British mountaineer best known for being among the party on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, during which he died in a famous climbing accident on the descent.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Douglas Hadow canonical | 4 |
| Douglas Robert Hadow | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4255480 — 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: Douglas Hadow Context triple: [Matterhorn, firstAscentBy, Douglas Hadow]
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A.
Cecil Poynton
Cecil Poynton was an English footballer and long-serving full-back for Tottenham Hotspur during the early 20th century.
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B.
Walter Bidlake
Walter Bidlake is a fictional character in Aldous Huxley’s satirical novel "Point Counter Point," representing aspects of English intellectual and social life in the 1920s.
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C.
Robert Hichens
Robert Hichens was a British novelist and short story writer known for his psychological thrillers and society novels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Geoffrey Boulton
Geoffrey Boulton is a distinguished British geologist and glaciologist known for his influential research on ice sheets, climate change, and Earth surface processes.
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E.
Fred Jowett
Fred Jowett was a British socialist politician and early Labour Party figure who served as MP for Bradford and helped shape the party’s formative policies and organization.
- 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: Douglas Hadow Target entity description: Douglas Hadow was a young British mountaineer best known for being among the party on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, during which he died in a famous climbing accident on the descent.
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A.
Cecil Poynton
Cecil Poynton was an English footballer and long-serving full-back for Tottenham Hotspur during the early 20th century.
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B.
Walter Bidlake
Walter Bidlake is a fictional character in Aldous Huxley’s satirical novel "Point Counter Point," representing aspects of English intellectual and social life in the 1920s.
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C.
Robert Hichens
Robert Hichens was a British novelist and short story writer known for his psychological thrillers and society novels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
Geoffrey Boulton
Geoffrey Boulton is a distinguished British geologist and glaciologist known for his influential research on ice sheets, climate change, and Earth surface processes.
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E.
Fred Jowett
Fred Jowett was a British socialist politician and early Labour Party figure who served as MP for Bradford and helped shape the party’s formative policies and organization.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
mountaineer ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Edward Whymper
ⓘ
Matterhorn first ascent controversy ⓘ
linked to:
Matterhorn first-ascent accident of 1865
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| buriedIn | Zermatt cemetery ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | fall from a mountain ⓘ |
| climbed | Matterhorn ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1865-07-14 ⓘ |
| describedAs | young British mountaineer ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | British ⓘ |
| hasCause | slip on descent of the Matterhorn ⓘ |
| hasWikipediaArticle | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Hadow ⓘ |
| knownFor | being in the party on the first ascent of the Matterhorn ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | mountaineering accident ⓘ |
| memberOfSportsTeam |
Matterhorn first-ascent party
ⓘ
linked to:
Matterhorn first-ascent accident of 1865
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| notableEvent | death during descent from the Matterhorn in 1865 ⓘ |
| notableFor | participation in the first ascent of the Matterhorn ⓘ |
| notableWork | first ascent of the Matterhorn (as climber) ⓘ |
| occupation | mountaineer ⓘ |
| participantIn |
1865 Matterhorn climbing accident
ⓘ
first ascent of the Matterhorn ⓘ |
| partOf |
Edward Whymper’s Matterhorn party
ⓘ
linked to:
Matterhorn first-ascent accident of 1865
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| placeOfBurial | Zermatt ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Matterhorn ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sport | mountaineering ⓘ |
| yearOfDeath | 1865 ⓘ |
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: Douglas Hadow Description of subject: Douglas Hadow was a young British mountaineer best known for being among the party on the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865, during which he died in a famous climbing accident on the descent.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Douglas Hadow