Ian Duncan Stewart
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Ian Duncan Stewart is the birth name of Ian Brady, the notorious British serial killer responsible for the Moors murders in the 1960s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ian Duncan Stewart canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7942188 — 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: Ian Duncan Stewart Context triple: [Ian Brady, birthName, Ian Duncan Stewart]
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A.
Duncan Stewart
Duncan Stewart is a music producer best known for his work on U2’s album "Songs of Surrender."
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B.
Ian Douglas Campbell
Ian Douglas Campbell was a Scottish peer and aristocrat who became the 11th Duke of Argyll, noted for his turbulent personal life and high-profile marriages.
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C.
Andrew Duncan
Andrew Duncan was a British industrialist and politician who served as the United Kingdom’s Minister of Supply during the Second World War.
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D.
Ian Duncan
Ian Duncan is a neurotic and often ineffectual psychology professor on the sitcom "Community," portrayed by comedian John Oliver.
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E.
Ian McDougall
Ian McDougall is an Australian architect best known as a founding director of the influential firm Ashton Raggatt McDougall (ARM), recognized for its bold and unconventional public architecture.
- 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: Ian Duncan Stewart Target entity description: Ian Duncan Stewart is the birth name of Ian Brady, the notorious British serial killer responsible for the Moors murders in the 1960s.
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A.
Duncan Stewart
Duncan Stewart is a music producer best known for his work on U2’s album "Songs of Surrender."
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B.
Ian Douglas Campbell
Ian Douglas Campbell was a Scottish peer and aristocrat who became the 11th Duke of Argyll, noted for his turbulent personal life and high-profile marriages.
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C.
Andrew Duncan
Andrew Duncan was a British industrialist and politician who served as the United Kingdom’s Minister of Supply during the Second World War.
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D.
Ian Duncan
Ian Duncan is a neurotic and often ineffectual psychology professor on the sitcom "Community," portrayed by comedian John Oliver.
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E.
Ian McDougall
Ian McDougall is an Australian architect best known as a founding director of the influential firm Ashton Raggatt McDougall (ARM), recognized for its bold and unconventional public architecture.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (38)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British serial killer
ⓘ
criminal ⓘ human ⓘ serial killer ⓘ |
| activeYearsEnd | 1965 ⓘ |
| activeYearsStart | 1963 ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Ian Brady ⓘ |
| birthNameOf | Ian Brady ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | natural causes ⓘ |
| convictedOf | murder ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| criminalCharge | murder ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1938-01-02 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2017-05-15 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| locationOfCrimes |
Greater Manchester
ⓘ
Saddleworth Moor ⓘ |
| motive | sadism ⓘ |
| notableEvent | arrest in 1965 ⓘ |
| notableFor | Moors murders ⓘ |
| numberOfVictims | 5 ⓘ |
| occupation |
criminal
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serial killer ⓘ |
| partnerInCrime | Myra Hindley ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Glasgow ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Ashworth Hospital ⓘ |
| placeOfImprisonment |
Ashworth Hospital
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HM Prison Durham ⓘ HM Prison Parkhurst ⓘ |
| religion | atheism ⓘ |
| residence | Manchester ⓘ |
| sentencedTo | life imprisonment ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| subjectOf |
Moors Murders media coverage
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biographical books about Ian Brady ⓘ |
| victimProfile |
children
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teenagers ⓘ |
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: Ian Duncan Stewart Description of subject: Ian Duncan Stewart is the birth name of Ian Brady, the notorious British serial killer responsible for the Moors murders in the 1960s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.