James Smith
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James Smith was a notable Scottish architect active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, recognized for designing prominent ecclesiastical and civic buildings.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| James Smith canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7041643 — 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 Smith Context triple: [Canongate Kirk, architect, James Smith]
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A.
James Smith
James Smith was a film editor active in early American cinema, known for his work on the 1920 silent drama "Pollyanna."
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B.
James Smith
James Smith is a distinguished former student of New London Academy recognized for his notable achievements after attending the institution.
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C.
Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith was the alias of John Adams, the last surviving Bounty mutineer who became a leader of the Pitcairn Island community.
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D.
Arthur Smith
Arthur Smith is a member of the Smith family, known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
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E.
Jack Martin Smith
Jack Martin Smith was an American art director and production designer known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films.
- 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 Smith Target entity description: James Smith was a notable Scottish architect active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, recognized for designing prominent ecclesiastical and civic buildings.
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A.
James Smith
James Smith was a film editor active in early American cinema, known for his work on the 1920 silent drama "Pollyanna."
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B.
James Smith
James Smith is a distinguished former student of New London Academy recognized for his notable achievements after attending the institution.
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C.
Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith was the alias of John Adams, the last surviving Bounty mutineer who became a leader of the Pitcairn Island community.
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D.
Arthur Smith
Arthur Smith is a member of the Smith family, known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
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E.
Jack Martin Smith
Jack Martin Smith was an American art director and production designer known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish architect
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architect ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
early 18th century
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late 17th century ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle |
Baroque
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Classical architecture ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity |
17th century
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18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| era |
Early modern period
ⓘ
linked to:
Early Modern period
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| ethnicGroup | Scottish people ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
architecture
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civic architecture ⓘ ecclesiastical architecture ⓘ |
| genre |
church architecture
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public architecture ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
Scots ⓘ |
| movement | Baroque architecture ⓘ |
| name | James Smith ⓘ |
| notability | notable Scottish architect ⓘ |
| notableFor |
designing civic buildings in Scotland
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designing ecclesiastical buildings in Scotland ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Scotland ⓘ |
| workLocation | Scotland ⓘ |
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 Smith Description of subject: James Smith was a notable Scottish architect active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, recognized for designing prominent ecclesiastical and civic buildings.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.