John Crawfurd
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John Crawfurd was a 19th-century Scottish physician, colonial administrator, and diplomat best known for serving as the second Resident of Singapore and for his influential writings on Southeast Asia.
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| John Crawfurd canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T22460147 — 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: John Crawfurd Context triple: [William Farquhar, succeededByInRole:ResidentOfSingapore, John Crawfurd]
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William McGillivray
William McGillivray was a prominent Canadian fur trader and businessman who became a leading figure in the North West Company during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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B.
John MacTavish
John "Soap" MacTavish is a fictional Scottish special forces soldier and a central playable character in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare video game series.
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C.
Alexander Chisholm
Alexander Chisholm was the executor of a South Carolina merchant’s estate who became historically significant as the named plaintiff in the landmark early U.S. Supreme Court case Chisholm v. Georgia, which helped prompt the adoption of the Eleventh Amendment.
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D.
Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk
Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, was a Scottish nobleman and philanthropist best known for organizing large-scale Scottish emigration to North America and establishing pioneering agricultural settlements in what is now Canada.
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E.
John Spottiswood
John Spottiswood was a Scottish clergyman and historian who served as Archbishop of St Andrews and played a prominent role in the religious and political life of early 17th-century Scotland.
- 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: John Crawfurd Target entity description: John Crawfurd was a 19th-century Scottish physician, colonial administrator, and diplomat best known for serving as the second Resident of Singapore and for his influential writings on Southeast Asia.
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A.
William McGillivray
William McGillivray was a prominent Canadian fur trader and businessman who became a leading figure in the North West Company during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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B.
John MacTavish
John "Soap" MacTavish is a fictional Scottish special forces soldier and a central playable character in the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare video game series.
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C.
Alexander Chisholm
Alexander Chisholm was the executor of a South Carolina merchant’s estate who became historically significant as the named plaintiff in the landmark early U.S. Supreme Court case Chisholm v. Georgia, which helped prompt the adoption of the Eleventh Amendment.
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D.
Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk
Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, was a Scottish nobleman and philanthropist best known for organizing large-scale Scottish emigration to North America and establishing pioneering agricultural settlements in what is now Canada.
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E.
John Spottiswood
John Spottiswood was a Scottish clergyman and historian who served as Archbishop of St Andrews and played a prominent role in the religious and political life of early 17th-century Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
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