David Farrar
E149096
David Farrar is a Canadian academic and administrator who serves as the president and vice-chancellor of McMaster University.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Farrar canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1232734 — 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 Farrar Context triple: [McMaster University, president, David Farrar]
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A.
Ted Hardie
Ted Hardie is an Internet engineering expert and long-time IETF leader known for his work on real-time communications and web technologies.
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B.
Ivor Novello
Ivor Novello was a Welsh composer, singer, and actor of the early 20th century, renowned for his popular songs and musical theatre works in Britain.
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C.
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
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D.
George Black
George Black is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, business, and the arts.
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E.
Andrew Darwin
Andrew Darwin is an individual notable for bearing the Darwin surname, historically associated with the famous naturalist Charles Darwin.
- 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 Farrar Target entity description: David Farrar is a Canadian academic and administrator who serves as the president and vice-chancellor of McMaster University.
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A.
Ted Hardie
Ted Hardie is an Internet engineering expert and long-time IETF leader known for his work on real-time communications and web technologies.
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B.
Ivor Novello
Ivor Novello was a Welsh composer, singer, and actor of the early 20th century, renowned for his popular songs and musical theatre works in Britain.
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C.
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
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D.
George Black
George Black is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, business, and the arts.
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E.
Andrew Darwin
Andrew Darwin is an individual notable for bearing the Darwin surname, historically associated with the famous naturalist Charles Darwin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
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person ⓘ university administrator ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| employer | McMaster University ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | higher education administration ⓘ |
| notableFor | serving as president and vice-chancellor of McMaster University ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
ⓘ
university administrator ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
president of McMaster University
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vice-chancellor of McMaster University ⓘ |
| workLocation | Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ⓘ |
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 Farrar Description of subject: David Farrar is a Canadian academic and administrator who serves as the president and vice-chancellor of McMaster University.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.