James A. H. Murray
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James A. H. Murray was a Scottish lexicographer best known as the primary editor of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
All labels observed (1)
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| James A. H. Murray canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7595588 — 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 A. H. Murray Context triple: [Wolvercote Cemetery, hasNotableBurial, James A. H. Murray]
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A.
Reginald S. Macdonald
Reginald S. Macdonald was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Dent d'Hérens in the Alps.
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B.
Ernest J. H. Mackay
Ernest J. H. Mackay was a British archaeologist best known for his pioneering excavations of major Indus Valley Civilization sites in the early 20th century.
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C.
Angus G. Wynne
Angus G. Wynne was an American real estate developer and entrepreneur best known for creating the Six Flags chain of amusement parks.
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D.
H. A. Prichard
H. A. Prichard was a 20th-century British moral philosopher known for his influential work in intuitionist ethics and his critique of consequentialist moral theories.
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E.
Cyril J. Mockridge
Cyril J. Mockridge was a British-born American film composer and arranger best known for his extensive work scoring Hollywood films for 20th Century Fox during the mid-20th century.
- 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 A. H. Murray Target entity description: James A. H. Murray was a Scottish lexicographer best known as the primary editor of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
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A.
Reginald S. Macdonald
Reginald S. Macdonald was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of the Dent d'Hérens in the Alps.
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B.
Ernest J. H. Mackay
Ernest J. H. Mackay was a British archaeologist best known for his pioneering excavations of major Indus Valley Civilization sites in the early 20th century.
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C.
Angus G. Wynne
Angus G. Wynne was an American real estate developer and entrepreneur best known for creating the Six Flags chain of amusement parks.
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D.
H. A. Prichard
H. A. Prichard was a 20th-century British moral philosopher known for his influential work in intuitionist ethics and his critique of consequentialist moral theories.
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E.
Cyril J. Mockridge
Cyril J. Mockridge was a British-born American film composer and arranger best known for his extensive work scoring Hollywood films for 20th Century Fox during the mid-20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 A. H. Murray Description of subject: James A. H. Murray was a Scottish lexicographer best known as the primary editor of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.