David Lidington
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David Lidington is a British Conservative politician who served as a senior cabinet minister, including as de facto Deputy Prime Minister under Theresa May.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Lidington canonical | 5 |
| Sir David Lidington | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T360729 — 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: David Lidington Context triple: [Lord Privy Seal, officeHoldersInclude, David Lidington]
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A.
Lord Mandelson
Lord Mandelson is a British Labour politician and life peer who served in several senior government roles, including Business Secretary, and was a key architect of the New Labour project under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
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B.
William Hague
William Hague is a British Conservative politician and former Foreign Secretary who also served as Leader of the Opposition and held several senior cabinet posts.
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C.
George Osborne
George Osborne is a British Conservative politician and former Chancellor of the Exchequer who played a prominent role in UK economic policy during David Cameron’s government.
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D.
Andy Burnham
Andy Burnham is a British Labour Party politician who serves as the Mayor of Greater Manchester and is known for his advocacy on regional devolution and social justice issues.
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E.
Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer is a British politician and former human rights lawyer who leads the Labour Party and serves as the United Kingdom’s Leader of the Opposition.
- 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: David Lidington Target entity description: David Lidington is a British Conservative politician who served as a senior cabinet minister, including as de facto Deputy Prime Minister under Theresa May.
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A.
Lord Mandelson
Lord Mandelson is a British Labour politician and life peer who served in several senior government roles, including Business Secretary, and was a key architect of the New Labour project under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
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B.
William Hague
William Hague is a British Conservative politician and former Foreign Secretary who also served as Leader of the Opposition and held several senior cabinet posts.
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C.
George Osborne
George Osborne is a British Conservative politician and former Chancellor of the Exchequer who played a prominent role in UK economic policy during David Cameron’s government.
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D.
Andy Burnham
Andy Burnham is a British Labour Party politician who serves as the Mayor of Greater Manchester and is known for his advocacy on regional devolution and social justice issues.
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E.
Keir Starmer
Keir Starmer is a British politician and former human rights lawyer who leads the Labour Party and serves as the United Kingdom’s Leader of the Opposition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British politician
ⓘ
Conservative Party politician ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Lidington ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| ideology | conservatism ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | House of Commons of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Conservative Party (UK) ⓘ |
| name | David Lidington self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
service as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
ⓘ
service as Lord Chancellor ⓘ service as Minister for the Cabinet Office ⓘ service as Minister of State for Europe ⓘ service as Secretary of State for Justice ⓘ service as de facto Deputy Prime Minister under Theresa May ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| officeContested | Member of Parliament for Aylesbury ⓘ |
| parliamentaryBody |
British Parliament
ⓘ
surface form:
Parliament of the United Kingdom
|
| positionHeld |
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster
ⓘ
Leader of the House of Commons ⓘ Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ⓘ
surface form:
Lord Chancellor
Members of Parliament ⓘ
surface form:
Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom
Minister for the Cabinet Office ⓘ Minister of State for Europe ⓘ Secretary of State for Justice ⓘ |
| representedElectoralDistrict | Aylesbury ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| roleInGovernment |
de facto Deputy Prime Minister
ⓘ
senior cabinet minister ⓘ |
| servedInCabinetOf |
David Cameron
ⓘ
Theresa May ⓘ |
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: David Lidington Description of subject: David Lidington is a British Conservative politician who served as a senior cabinet minister, including as de facto Deputy Prime Minister under Theresa May.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Sir David Lidington