Archibald McLean (judge)
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Archibald McLean was a prominent 19th-century Canadian jurist who served as a leading judge in Upper Canada and later in the Province of Canada.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Archibald McLean (father of judge) | 1 |
| Archibald McLean (judge) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10578332 — 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: Archibald McLean (judge) Context triple: [judiciary of Upper Canada, hasNotableMember, Archibald McLean (judge)]
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A.
Thomas Scott (judge)
Thomas Scott was a prominent early 19th-century judge in Upper Canada who played a significant role in shaping the colony’s legal system.
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B.
William Maxwell
William Maxwell was an Irish-born American brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
Justice Stephen Norrish
Justice Stephen Norrish is an Australian jurist who has served as a judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.
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D.
Judge Rutherford
Judge Rutherford was the second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and a key figure in shaping the doctrines and global expansion of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the early 20th century.
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E.
Alfred Thompson Denning
Alfred Thompson Denning was a prominent 20th-century English judge renowned for his influential and often controversial judgments that shaped modern common law.
- 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: Archibald McLean (judge) Target entity description: Archibald McLean was a prominent 19th-century Canadian jurist who served as a leading judge in Upper Canada and later in the Province of Canada.
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A.
Thomas Scott (judge)
Thomas Scott was a prominent early 19th-century judge in Upper Canada who played a significant role in shaping the colony’s legal system.
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B.
William Maxwell
William Maxwell was an Irish-born American brigadier general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
Justice Stephen Norrish
Justice Stephen Norrish is an Australian jurist who has served as a judge of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory.
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D.
Judge Rutherford
Judge Rutherford was the second president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society and a key figure in shaping the doctrines and global expansion of Jehovah’s Witnesses in the early 20th century.
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E.
Alfred Thompson Denning
Alfred Thompson Denning was a prominent 20th-century English judge renowned for his influential and often controversial judgments that shaped modern common law.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian politician
ⓘ
judge ⓘ jurist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| appointedBy |
Lord Elgin
ⓘ
linked to:
James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin
Lord Sydenham ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1791-04-18 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | St. Andrews, New Brunswick ⓘ |
| conflict | War of 1812 ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Canada
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1865-10-24 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Toronto, Canada West ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Cornwall, Upper Canada
ⓘ
linked to:
Cornwall, Ontario
John Strachan's school ⓘ |
| era | 19th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish Canadian ⓘ |
| father |
Archibald McLean (father of judge)
ⓘ
linked to:
Archibald McLean (judge)
|
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leading 19th-century Canadian jurist in Upper Canada
ⓘ
service as Chief Justice in the Province of Canada ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalSystem | common law ⓘ |
| legislativeBody |
Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
ⓘ
Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada ⓘ |
| memberOf | Family Compact ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | ensign ⓘ |
| notableWork |
judgments of the Court of Queen's Bench for Upper Canada
ⓘ
linked to:
Court of King’s Bench for Upper Canada
|
| occupation |
judge
ⓘ
lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| participatedIn | suppression of the Upper Canada Rebellion ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | conservative ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench for Upper Canada
ⓘ
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada ⓘ judge of the Court of King's Bench for Upper Canada ⓘ member of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada ⓘ member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Province of Canada
ⓘ
Upper Canada ⓘ |
| religion | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| residence |
Toronto, Canada West
ⓘ
York, Upper Canada ⓘ |
| spouse | Joanna McLean ⓘ |
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: Archibald McLean (judge) Description of subject: Archibald McLean was a prominent 19th-century Canadian jurist who served as a leading judge in Upper Canada and later in the Province of Canada.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Archibald McLean (judge)