Alexander Kerr
E157865
Alexander Kerr is known primarily as the son of influential American academic and former University of California president Clark Kerr.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alexander Kerr canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T789377 — 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: Alexander Kerr Context triple: [Clark Kerr, child, Alexander Kerr]
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A.
William Kirkpatrick
William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
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B.
Alexander McDougall
Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
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C.
Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer best known for designing and building numerous lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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D.
Arthur Whitten Brown
Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
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E.
Alan Cunningham
Alan Cunningham was a British Army general best known for leading Eighth Army forces in the North African campaign during World War II.
- 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: Alexander Kerr Target entity description: Alexander Kerr is known primarily as the son of influential American academic and former University of California president Clark Kerr.
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A.
William Kirkpatrick
William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
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B.
Alexander McDougall
Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
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C.
Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer best known for designing and building numerous lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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D.
Arthur Whitten Brown
Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
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E.
Alan Cunningham
Alan Cunningham was a British Army general best known for leading Eighth Army forces in the North African campaign during World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (8)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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human ⓘ |
| child | Alexander Kerr ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United States of America
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United States of America ⓘ |
| father | Clark Kerr ⓘ |
| occupation | academic ⓘ |
| positionHeld | President of the University of California ⓘ |
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: Alexander Kerr Description of subject: Alexander Kerr is known primarily as the son of influential American academic and former University of California president Clark Kerr.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Alexander Kerr