David Baird
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David Baird was a British Army general noted for his prominent role in campaigns in India and the Napoleonic Wars.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Baird canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12757378 — 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: David Baird Context triple: [Siege of Seringapatam (1799), commander, David Baird]
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A.
Jim Baird
Jim Baird is a Republican U.S. Representative from Indiana who has served in Congress since 2019 and is known for his background as a farmer, small-business owner, and Vietnam War veteran.
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B.
Matt Baird
Matt Baird is a technology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the software company Embarcadero Technologies.
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C.
Ian Dunn
Ian Dunn is a British actor known for his work in television, film, and theatre, and for being married to the late actress Emma Chambers.
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D.
Kay Bawden
Kay Bawden is a social worker and one of the central adult characters in J.K. Rowling’s novel "The Casual Vacancy," whose professional and personal struggles highlight the book’s themes of class, responsibility, and community conflict.
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E.
Stuart Baird
Stuart Baird is a British film editor and director renowned for his work on major Hollywood action and blockbuster films such as the James Bond and Lethal Weapon series.
- 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: David Baird Target entity description: David Baird was a British Army general noted for his prominent role in campaigns in India and the Napoleonic Wars.
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A.
Jim Baird
Jim Baird is a Republican U.S. Representative from Indiana who has served in Congress since 2019 and is known for his background as a farmer, small-business owner, and Vietnam War veteran.
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B.
Matt Baird
Matt Baird is a technology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the software company Embarcadero Technologies.
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C.
Ian Dunn
Ian Dunn is a British actor known for his work in television, film, and theatre, and for being married to the late actress Emma Chambers.
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D.
Kay Bawden
Kay Bawden is a social worker and one of the central adult characters in J.K. Rowling’s novel "The Casual Vacancy," whose professional and personal struggles highlight the book’s themes of class, responsibility, and community conflict.
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E.
Stuart Baird
Stuart Baird is a British film editor and director renowned for his work on major Hollywood action and blockbuster films such as the James Bond and Lethal Weapon series.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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general ⓘ human ⓘ |
| conflict |
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
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Napoleonic Wars ⓘ Peninsular War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| familyName | Baird ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | military leadership ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasPart |
service in European campaigns
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service in India ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Napoleonic Wars
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campaigns in India ⓘ |
| notableWork |
leadership in British campaigns during the Napoleonic Wars
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leadership in British campaigns in India ⓘ |
| occupation | military officer ⓘ |
| positionHeld | general in the British Army ⓘ |
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: David Baird Description of subject: David Baird was a British Army general noted for his prominent role in campaigns in India and the Napoleonic Wars.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.