Charles Alexander Stevenson
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Charles Alexander Stevenson was a Scottish civil engineer and lighthouse designer from the renowned Stevenson family of lighthouse engineers.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Charles Alexander Stevenson canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4729856 — 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: Charles Alexander Stevenson Context triple: [David Alan Stevenson, sibling, Charles Alexander Stevenson]
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A.
Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer best known for designing and building numerous lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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B.
Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson was a British film director best known for his work on classic Disney live-action films, including the family drama "Old Yeller."
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C.
Walter Stirling
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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D.
George Grant Elmslie
George Grant Elmslie was an influential American architect associated with the Prairie School movement, known for his richly ornamented designs and collaborations with Louis Sullivan.
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E.
Alexander Tilloch
Alexander Tilloch was a Scottish inventor, printer, and editor best known for his influential role in early 19th-century scientific publishing.
- 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: Charles Alexander Stevenson Target entity description: Charles Alexander Stevenson was a Scottish civil engineer and lighthouse designer from the renowned Stevenson family of lighthouse engineers.
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A.
Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer best known for designing and building numerous lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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B.
Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson was a British film director best known for his work on classic Disney live-action films, including the family drama "Old Yeller."
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C.
Walter Stirling
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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D.
George Grant Elmslie
George Grant Elmslie was an influential American architect associated with the Prairie School movement, known for his richly ornamented designs and collaborations with Louis Sullivan.
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E.
Alexander Tilloch
Alexander Tilloch was a Scottish inventor, printer, and editor best known for his influential role in early 19th-century scientific publishing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil engineer
ⓘ
lighthouse engineer ⓘ person ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence | maritime navigation around Scotland ⓘ |
| contributedTo | safety of shipping around the Scottish coast ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | Northern Lighthouse Board ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Stevenson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil engineering
ⓘ
lighthouse engineering ⓘ |
| genre | lighthouse design ⓘ |
| givenName |
Alexander
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Charles ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Stevenson family of lighthouse engineers ⓘ |
| notableFamily |
Stevenson family
ⓘ
linked to:
Stevenson political family
|
| notableFor | contributions to Scottish lighthouse construction ⓘ |
| notableWork | design of Scottish lighthouses ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil engineer
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lighthouse designer ⓘ |
| partOf | tradition of Scottish lighthouse engineering ⓘ |
| relative |
Alan Stevenson
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David Stevenson ⓘ Robert Stevenson ⓘ Thomas Stevenson ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Scotland
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Scottish coast ⓘ |
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: Charles Alexander Stevenson Description of subject: Charles Alexander Stevenson was a Scottish civil engineer and lighthouse designer from the renowned Stevenson family of lighthouse engineers.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.