James Paton
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James Paton is a relatively obscure individual whose specific notability is not clearly established from the available information.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Paton canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12355546 — 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 Paton Context triple: [Paton, hasNotableBearer, James Paton]
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A.
Hugh Paton
Hugh Paton was a prominent 19th-century Canadian businessman and civic leader, best known as the long-serving president and manager of the Montreal Telegraph Company.
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B.
David Paton
David Paton was a 19th-century architect best known for designing the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh.
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C.
David Paton
David Paton is a Scottish bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as the frontman of the band Pilot and for his work with artists such as Elton John and Kate Bush.
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D.
Andrew McMillan
Andrew McMillan is a software developer and open-source contributor known for his work on email and groupware technologies, particularly with the Kolab groupware server.
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E.
James Neill
James Neill was a British Army officer of the 19th century known for his harsh role in suppressing the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
- 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 Paton Target entity description: James Paton is a relatively obscure individual whose specific notability is not clearly established from the available information.
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A.
Hugh Paton
Hugh Paton was a prominent 19th-century Canadian businessman and civic leader, best known as the long-serving president and manager of the Montreal Telegraph Company.
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B.
David Paton
David Paton was a 19th-century architect best known for designing the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh.
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C.
David Paton
David Paton is a Scottish bassist, singer, and songwriter best known as the frontman of the band Pilot and for his work with artists such as Elton John and Kate Bush.
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D.
Andrew McMillan
Andrew McMillan is a software developer and open-source contributor known for his work on email and groupware technologies, particularly with the Kolab groupware server.
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E.
James Neill
James Neill was a British Army officer of the 19th century known for his harsh role in suppressing the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
- F. None of above. chosen
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 Paton Description of subject: James Paton is a relatively obscure individual whose specific notability is not clearly established from the available information.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.