David Hamilton
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David Hamilton was a prominent 19th-century Scottish architect known for his influential public and civic buildings, particularly in and around Glasgow.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Hamilton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6138767 — 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 Hamilton Context triple: [Falkirk Steeple, architect, David Hamilton]
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A.
David Hamilton
David Hamilton is a Scottish football manager and former player known for his career in the lower leagues of English football.
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B.
Donald Hamilton
Donald Hamilton was an American novelist best known for his long-running Matt Helm spy series and other works of crime and Western fiction.
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C.
Douglas Hamilton
Douglas Hamilton is a Scottish noble titleholder best known as the 8th Duke of Hamilton, a prominent aristocrat of the 18th century.
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D.
Neil Hamilton
Neil Hamilton was an American actor best known for his roles in early Hollywood films and later as Commissioner Gordon in the 1960s "Batman" television series.
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E.
Neil Hamilton
Neil Hamilton is a British politician and former Conservative MP who became widely known for his involvement in the 1990s "cash-for-questions" parliamentary lobbying scandal.
- 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 Hamilton Target entity description: David Hamilton was a prominent 19th-century Scottish architect known for his influential public and civic buildings, particularly in and around Glasgow.
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A.
David Hamilton
David Hamilton is a Scottish football manager and former player known for his career in the lower leagues of English football.
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B.
Donald Hamilton
Donald Hamilton was an American novelist best known for his long-running Matt Helm spy series and other works of crime and Western fiction.
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C.
Douglas Hamilton
Douglas Hamilton is a Scottish noble titleholder best known as the 8th Duke of Hamilton, a prominent aristocrat of the 18th century.
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D.
Neil Hamilton
Neil Hamilton was an American actor best known for his roles in early Hollywood films and later as Commissioner Gordon in the 1960s "Batman" television series.
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E.
Neil Hamilton
Neil Hamilton is a British politician and former Conservative MP who became widely known for his involvement in the 1990s "cash-for-questions" parliamentary lobbying scandal.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith | city of Glasgow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Glasgow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| era | Victorian era ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish people ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| genre |
civic architecture
ⓘ
public architecture ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| influenced |
Scottish civic architecture
ⓘ
public architecture in Glasgow region ⓘ |
| knownAs | David Hamilton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableFor |
civic buildings in Glasgow
ⓘ
public buildings in Glasgow ⓘ |
| notableRole | prominent 19th-century Scottish architect ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| partOf | 19th-century Scottish architectural movement ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | central Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Glasgow
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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 Hamilton Description of subject: David Hamilton was a prominent 19th-century Scottish architect known for his influential public and civic buildings, particularly in and around Glasgow.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.