Matthew Baillie
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Matthew Baillie was a prominent Scottish physician and pathologist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, best known for his pioneering work in morbid anatomy and his influential medical textbook "The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body."
All labels observed (1)
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| Matthew Baillie canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11253238 — 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: Matthew Baillie Context triple: [Hunterian school of surgery, notableMember, Matthew Baillie]
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A.
William Gillies
William Gillies is a name shared by several notable figures, including politicians and artists, whose specific identity depends on the historical and professional context.
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B.
David Bryce
David Bryce was a prominent 19th-century Scottish architect renowned for helping popularize and refine the Scottish Baronial style in numerous landmark buildings.
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C.
William Kirkpatrick
William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
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D.
Ian Dalrymple
Ian Dalrymple was a British screenwriter and film producer noted for his acclaimed work in early 20th-century cinema, including an Academy Award-winning screenplay.
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E.
Andrew Buchan
Andrew Buchan is a British actor best known for his role as Mark Latimer in the acclaimed crime drama series "Broadchurch."
- 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: Matthew Baillie Target entity description: Matthew Baillie was a prominent Scottish physician and pathologist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, best known for his pioneering work in morbid anatomy and his influential medical textbook "The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body."
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A.
William Gillies
William Gillies is a name shared by several notable figures, including politicians and artists, whose specific identity depends on the historical and professional context.
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B.
David Bryce
David Bryce was a prominent 19th-century Scottish architect renowned for helping popularize and refine the Scottish Baronial style in numerous landmark buildings.
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C.
William Kirkpatrick
William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
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D.
Ian Dalrymple
Ian Dalrymple was a British screenwriter and film producer noted for his acclaimed work in early 20th-century cinema, including an Academy Award-winning screenplay.
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E.
Andrew Buchan
Andrew Buchan is a British actor best known for his role as Mark Latimer in the acclaimed crime drama series "Broadchurch."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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medical textbook ⓘ medical writer ⓘ pathologist ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| academicDegree | MD ⓘ |
| author | Matthew Baillie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | intestinal disease ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity |
18th century
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19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1761-10-27 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1823-09-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Balliol College, Oxford
NERFINISHED
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University of Glasgow ⓘ University of Oxford ⓘ |
| employer |
Royal College of Physicians, London
NERFINISHED
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St George's Hospital, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Baillie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
medicine
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morbid anatomy ⓘ pathology ⓘ |
| givenName | Matthew NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Royal College of Physicians
NERFINISHED
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Royal Society ⓘ |
| name | Matthew Baillie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
authored first English textbook devoted entirely to pathology
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pioneering systematic study of morbid anatomy ⓘ |
| notableWork | The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
anatomist
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pathologist ⓘ physician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Lanarkshire
NERFINISHED
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Scotland ⓘ Shotts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
England
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Grosvenor Street, London NERFINISHED ⓘ London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
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| positionHeld |
physician at St George's Hospital
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physician extraordinary to King George III ⓘ physician in ordinary to King George III ⓘ |
| publicationDate | 1793 ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling | Joanna Baillie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uncle |
John Hunter
NERFINISHED
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William Hunter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Matthew Baillie Description of subject: Matthew Baillie was a prominent Scottish physician and pathologist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, best known for his pioneering work in morbid anatomy and his influential medical textbook "The Morbid Anatomy of Some of the Most Important Parts of the Human Body."
Referenced by (1)
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