James Scott Skinner
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James Scott Skinner was a renowned Scottish fiddler, composer, and dancing master of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, often called “The Strathspey King” for his influential role in traditional Scottish music.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Scott Skinner canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4967277 — 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: James Scott Skinner Context triple: [Aberdeen Grammar School, hasNotableAlumnus, James Scott Skinner]
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A.
Angus Campbell
Angus Campbell is a senior Australian Army officer who has served as Chief of the Defence Force.
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B.
Alexander McDougall
Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
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C.
Duncan Stewart
Duncan Stewart is a music producer best known for his work on U2’s album "Songs of Surrender."
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D.
Thomas Sutherland
Thomas Sutherland was a 19th-century Scottish banker best known for founding the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), which grew into one of the world’s largest banking institutions.
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E.
Richard Macdonald
Richard Macdonald was a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films including the 1991 movie "The Addams Family."
- 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: James Scott Skinner Target entity description: James Scott Skinner was a renowned Scottish fiddler, composer, and dancing master of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, often called “The Strathspey King” for his influential role in traditional Scottish music.
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A.
Angus Campbell
Angus Campbell is a senior Australian Army officer who has served as Chief of the Defence Force.
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B.
Alexander McDougall
Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
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C.
Duncan Stewart
Duncan Stewart is a music producer best known for his work on U2’s album "Songs of Surrender."
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D.
Thomas Sutherland
Thomas Sutherland was a 19th-century Scottish banker best known for founding the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC), which grew into one of the world’s largest banking institutions.
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E.
Richard Macdonald
Richard Macdonald was a British production designer and art director known for his distinctive visual work on films including the 1991 movie "The Addams Family."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish fiddler
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composer ⓘ dancing master ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1920s ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1860 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Scotland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1843-08-05 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1927-03-17 ⓘ |
| era |
early 20th century
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late 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Skinner ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
dance
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music ⓘ |
| genre |
Scottish dance music
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Scottish traditional music ⓘ reel ⓘ strathspey ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasHonorific |
King of the Strathspey
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linked to:
The Strathspey King
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| influenced |
20th-century Scottish fiddlers
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Scottish fiddle music ⓘ |
| instrument |
fiddle
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violin ⓘ |
| language |
English
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Scots ⓘ |
| movement | Scottish fiddle tradition ⓘ |
| name | James Scott Skinner ⓘ |
| nickname | The Strathspey King ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Scottish dance teaching
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strathspey composition ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Hector the Hero
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The Bonnie Lass o’ Bon Accord ⓘ The Cradle Song ⓘ The Music o’ Spey ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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dancing master ⓘ fiddler ⓘ violinist ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
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linked to:
Banchory
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| placeOfDeath |
Aberdeen, Scotland
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linked to:
City of Aberdeen, Scotland
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| residence |
Aberdeen, Scotland
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linked to:
City of Aberdeen, Scotland
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| taught |
Scottish country dancing
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violin ⓘ |
| title | The Strathspey King ⓘ |
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: James Scott Skinner Description of subject: James Scott Skinner was a renowned Scottish fiddler, composer, and dancing master of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, often called “The Strathspey King” for his influential role in traditional Scottish music.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.