David Home
E13851
David Home is the original birth name of the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, renowned for his influential works on empiricism, skepticism, and moral philosophy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Home canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T124454 — 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 Home Context triple: [David Hume, birthName, David Home]
-
A.
Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks is a British novelist best known for his historical and war-themed fiction, including the acclaimed novel "Birdsong."
-
B.
Ernest Merritt
Ernest Merritt was an American physicist and academic who co-founded the influential scientific journal Physical Review and helped shape early 20th-century physics research in the United States.
-
C.
Valeria Wasserman
Valeria Wasserman is a Brazilian linguist and translator best known as the wife of renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky.
-
D.
D. B. Weiss
D. B. Weiss is an American television writer, producer, and director best known as the co-creator and showrunner of the HBO fantasy series "Game of Thrones."
-
E.
Richard Bolt
Richard Bolt was an American acoustician and co-founder of the influential research and engineering firm Bolt Beranek and Newman, known for its pioneering work in acoustics and computer networking.
- 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 Home Target entity description: David Home is the original birth name of the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, renowned for his influential works on empiricism, skepticism, and moral philosophy.
-
A.
Sebastian Faulks
Sebastian Faulks is a British novelist best known for his historical and war-themed fiction, including the acclaimed novel "Birdsong."
-
B.
Ernest Merritt
Ernest Merritt was an American physicist and academic who co-founded the influential scientific journal Physical Review and helped shape early 20th-century physics research in the United States.
-
C.
Valeria Wasserman
Valeria Wasserman is a Brazilian linguist and translator best known as the wife of renowned intellectual Noam Chomsky.
-
D.
D. B. Weiss
D. B. Weiss is an American television writer, producer, and director best known as the co-creator and showrunner of the HBO fantasy series "Game of Thrones."
-
E.
Richard Bolt
Richard Bolt was an American acoustician and co-founder of the influential research and engineering firm Bolt Beranek and Newman, known for its pioneering work in acoustics and computer networking.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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 Home Description of subject: David Home is the original birth name of the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, renowned for his influential works on empiricism, skepticism, and moral philosophy.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.