Sir Robert McAlpine
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Sir Robert McAlpine is a major British construction and civil engineering company known for delivering large-scale infrastructure and landmark building projects across the UK.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sir Robert McAlpine canonical | 9 |
| Robert McAlpine | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1324836 — 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: Sir Robert McAlpine Context triple: [London Olympic Stadium, mainContractor, Sir Robert McAlpine]
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A.
Sir William Cubitt
Sir William Cubitt was a prominent 19th-century English civil engineer known for major infrastructure projects, including canals, railways, and the design of the London & Blackwall Railway.
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B.
Robert Luce
Robert Luce was an American politician and author who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts in the early 20th century.
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C.
Buro Happold
Buro Happold is a global engineering consultancy known for its innovative structural and environmental design on major architectural and cultural projects worldwide.
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D.
Sir Robert Morton
Sir Robert Morton is a brilliant, aloof barrister in Terence Rattigan’s play "The Winslow Boy," renowned for his formidable courtroom skills and moral integrity.
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E.
Sir William Collyer
Sir William Collyer is a respectable, emotionally reserved judge in Terence Rattigan’s play *The Deep Blue Sea*, whose failed marriage to Hester Collyer highlights the constraints and repressions of postwar British society.
- 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: Sir Robert McAlpine Target entity description: Sir Robert McAlpine is a major British construction and civil engineering company known for delivering large-scale infrastructure and landmark building projects across the UK.
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A.
Sir William Cubitt
Sir William Cubitt was a prominent 19th-century English civil engineer known for major infrastructure projects, including canals, railways, and the design of the London & Blackwall Railway.
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B.
Robert Luce
Robert Luce was an American politician and author who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts in the early 20th century.
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C.
Buro Happold
Buro Happold is a global engineering consultancy known for its innovative structural and environmental design on major architectural and cultural projects worldwide.
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D.
Sir Robert Morton
Sir Robert Morton is a brilliant, aloof barrister in Terence Rattigan’s play "The Winslow Boy," renowned for his formidable courtroom skills and moral integrity.
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E.
Sir William Collyer
Sir William Collyer is a respectable, emotionally reserved judge in Terence Rattigan’s play *The Deep Blue Sea*, whose failed marriage to Hester Collyer highlights the constraints and repressions of postwar British society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil engineering company
ⓘ
construction company ⓘ private company ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
McAlpine
ⓘ
Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd ⓘ |
| areaServed | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| businessModel | main contractor ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyOwned | true ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Robert McAlpine
ⓘ
linked to:
Sir Robert McAlpine
|
| foundedInLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| founderHonorificTitle | Sir ⓘ |
| hasCoreValue |
collaboration
ⓘ
engineering excellence ⓘ safety ⓘ sustainability ⓘ |
| hasReputationFor |
landmark building projects
ⓘ
large-scale infrastructure projects ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary |
McAlpine Design Group
ⓘ
Sir Robert McAlpine Capital Ventures ⓘ
linked to:
Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd
|
| headquartersLocation |
England
ⓘ
Hemel Hempstead ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ |
| inception | 1869 ⓘ |
| industry |
civil engineering
ⓘ
construction ⓘ |
| legalForm | limited company ⓘ |
| notableProjectType |
commercial buildings
ⓘ
public sector buildings ⓘ stadiums ⓘ transport infrastructure ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Emirates Stadium
ⓘ
M25 motorway sections ⓘ Motorway and trunk road projects in the UK ⓘ O2 Arena ⓘ
linked to:
The O2 Arena
Olympic Stadium, London ⓘ
linked to:
London Olympic Stadium
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park venues ⓘ
linked to:
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
The Shard (construction involvement) ⓘ
linked to:
The Shard
|
| numberOfEmployees | 1000-5000 (approximate range) ⓘ |
| operatesInSector | built environment ⓘ |
| service |
building construction
ⓘ
civil engineering works ⓘ design and build contracting ⓘ infrastructure delivery ⓘ project management ⓘ |
| website | https://www.srm.com ⓘ |
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: Sir Robert McAlpine Description of subject: Sir Robert McAlpine is a major British construction and civil engineering company known for delivering large-scale infrastructure and landmark building projects across the UK.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sir Robert McAlpine
linked to: Sir Robert McAlpine