Stevenson
E147380
Stevenson is a common Scottish-origin surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, literature, and public life.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Stevenson canonical | 31 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1294820 — 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: Stevenson Context triple: [Adlai Stevenson III, familyName, Stevenson]
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A.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was a 19th-century Scottish novelist, essayist, and travel writer best known for works such as "Treasure Island" and "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde."
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B.
Stein
Stein is a German-origin surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as exploration, philosophy, literature, and politics.
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C.
Conrad
Conrad is a character in Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto," whose fate helps set the story’s dark and supernatural events in motion.
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D.
Vidal
Vidal is a river flowing through the Occitanie region in southern France.
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E.
Stevens
Stevens is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as sports, politics, arts, and academia.
- 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: Stevenson Target entity description: Stevenson is a common Scottish-origin surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, literature, and public life.
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A.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was a 19th-century Scottish novelist, essayist, and travel writer best known for works such as "Treasure Island" and "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde."
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B.
Stein
Stein is a German-origin surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as exploration, philosophy, literature, and politics.
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C.
Conrad
Conrad is a character in Horace Walpole’s pioneering Gothic novel "The Castle of Otranto," whose fate helps set the story’s dark and supernatural events in motion.
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D.
Vidal
Vidal is a river flowing through the Occitanie region in southern France.
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E.
Stevens
Stevens is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable individuals across fields such as sports, politics, arts, and academia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Stevenson Description of subject: Stevenson is a common Scottish-origin surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, literature, and public life.
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.