Duncan Maxwell
E573535
Duncan Maxwell was an Australian Army officer who commanded forces during the World War II Malayan Campaign, notably at the Battle of Muar.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Duncan Maxwell canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5845485 — 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: Duncan Maxwell Context triple: [Battle of Muar, hasCommander, Duncan Maxwell]
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A.
Duncan Henderson
Duncan Henderson was an American film producer and production manager known for his work on major Hollywood films including "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World."
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B.
Duncan Reid
Duncan Reid is a musician best known as the former bassist and vocalist for the UK punk band The Boys and for his solo work with Duncan Reid and the Big Heads.
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C.
Duncan Makenzie
Duncan Makenzie is the protagonist of Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction novel "Imperial Earth," a third-generation colonist from Titan who becomes a key political and cultural bridge between Saturn’s moon and Earth.
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D.
James Eric Drummond
James Eric Drummond was a British diplomat best known as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, serving from 1920 to 1933.
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E.
Ian Meakins
Ian Meakins is a British business executive known for leading major multinational companies, including serving as chairman of Unilever.
- 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: Duncan Maxwell Target entity description: Duncan Maxwell was an Australian Army officer who commanded forces during the World War II Malayan Campaign, notably at the Battle of Muar.
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A.
Duncan Henderson
Duncan Henderson was an American film producer and production manager known for his work on major Hollywood films including "Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World."
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B.
Duncan Reid
Duncan Reid is a musician best known as the former bassist and vocalist for the UK punk band The Boys and for his solo work with Duncan Reid and the Big Heads.
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C.
Duncan Makenzie
Duncan Makenzie is the protagonist of Arthur C. Clarke’s science fiction novel "Imperial Earth," a third-generation colonist from Titan who becomes a key political and cultural bridge between Saturn’s moon and Earth.
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D.
James Eric Drummond
James Eric Drummond was a British diplomat best known as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, serving from 1920 to 1933.
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E.
Ian Meakins
Ian Meakins is a British business executive known for leading major multinational companies, including serving as chairman of Unilever.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian Army officer
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person ⓘ |
| conflict | World War II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Australian Army ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Battle of Muar ⓘ |
| notableWork | Command of Australian forces at the Battle of Muar ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Malayan Campaign
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linked to:
Battle of Malaya
Second World War ⓘ
linked to:
World War II
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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: Duncan Maxwell Description of subject: Duncan Maxwell was an Australian Army officer who commanded forces during the World War II Malayan Campaign, notably at the Battle of Muar.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.