Ewen MacAskill
E107622
Ewen MacAskill is a Scottish journalist and former Guardian reporter known for helping reveal Edward Snowden’s NSA surveillance leaks.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ewen MacAskill canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T861922 — 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: Ewen MacAskill Context triple: [Edward Snowden, disclosedTo, Ewen MacAskill]
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A.
Duncan Kenworthy
Duncan Kenworthy is a British film and television producer best known for hit romantic comedies such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Notting Hill," and "Love Actually."
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B.
Graeme Gibson
Graeme Gibson was a Canadian novelist, environmentalist, and cultural advocate known for his contributions to Canadian literature and his long partnership with writer Margaret Atwood.
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C.
Tam O'Shaughnessy
Tam O'Shaughnessy is an American educator, former professional tennis player, and cofounder of Sally Ride Science who was the longtime partner of astronaut Sally Ride.
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D.
Eric Drummond
Eric Drummond was a British diplomat best known for serving as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, helping to shape the early framework of modern international diplomacy.
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E.
Andrew Duggan
Andrew Duggan was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s.
- 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: Ewen MacAskill Target entity description: Ewen MacAskill is a Scottish journalist and former Guardian reporter known for helping reveal Edward Snowden’s NSA surveillance leaks.
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A.
Duncan Kenworthy
Duncan Kenworthy is a British film and television producer best known for hit romantic comedies such as "Four Weddings and a Funeral," "Notting Hill," and "Love Actually."
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B.
Graeme Gibson
Graeme Gibson was a Canadian novelist, environmentalist, and cultural advocate known for his contributions to Canadian literature and his long partnership with writer Margaret Atwood.
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C.
Tam O'Shaughnessy
Tam O'Shaughnessy is an American educator, former professional tennis player, and cofounder of Sally Ride Science who was the longtime partner of astronaut Sally Ride.
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D.
Eric Drummond
Eric Drummond was a British diplomat best known for serving as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, helping to shape the early framework of modern international diplomacy.
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E.
Andrew Duggan
Andrew Duggan was an American character actor known for his prolific work in film and television from the 1950s through the 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
foreign correspondent
ⓘ
human ⓘ journalist ⓘ reporter ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Pulitzer Prize for Public Service ⓘ |
| awardReceivedFor | coverage of NSA surveillance based on Edward Snowden leaks ⓘ |
| basedIn |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
Washington, D.C. ⓘ |
| collaboratedWith |
Edward Snowden
ⓘ
Glenn Greenwald ⓘ Laura Poitras ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| coveredTopic |
civil liberties
ⓘ
intelligence agencies ⓘ mass surveillance ⓘ national security ⓘ whistleblowing ⓘ |
| employer |
Daily Record
ⓘ
Guardian News & Media ⓘ
linked to:
The Guardian
Press and Journal ⓘ The Guardian ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | MacAskill ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
journalism
ⓘ
national security reporting ⓘ political reporting ⓘ |
| genre |
investigative journalism
ⓘ
political journalism ⓘ security and intelligence reporting ⓘ |
| givenName | Ewen ⓘ |
| knownFor | helping reveal Edward Snowden’s NSA surveillance leaks ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| mediaType |
online journalism
ⓘ
print journalism ⓘ |
| name | Ewen MacAskill ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableEvent | publication of NSA surveillance revelations in 2013 ⓘ |
| notableWork |
coverage of Edward Snowden NSA surveillance leaks
ⓘ
reporting on mass surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
newspaper reporter ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Washington bureau chief at The Guardian
ⓘ
defence and intelligence correspondent at The Guardian ⓘ political correspondent at The Guardian ⓘ |
| retiredFrom | The Guardian ⓘ |
| spokeAbout |
government surveillance
ⓘ
press freedom ⓘ |
| workedFor | Guardian US ⓘ |
| workedOn | Snowden leaks stories for The Guardian ⓘ |
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: Ewen MacAskill Description of subject: Ewen MacAskill is a Scottish journalist and former Guardian reporter known for helping reveal Edward Snowden’s NSA surveillance leaks.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.