Reid
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Reid is a common Scottish and Irish surname that has been borne by numerous notable figures across fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Reid canonical | 42 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T110968 — 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: Reid Context triple: [Harry Fielding Reid, familyName, Reid]
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A.
MacDouglas
MacDouglas is a Scottish surname variant of Douglas, traditionally associated with clans and families of Scottish heritage.
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B.
Scott Brown
Scott Brown is an American Republican politician and former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts who later served as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.
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C.
Wilson
Wilson is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable figures across fields such as science, politics, sports, and the arts.
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D.
Sam Kennedy
Sam Kennedy is a Major League Baseball executive best known for serving as the president and CEO of the Boston Red Sox.
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E.
Robnett
Robnett is a given middle name that appears in the full name of individuals such as the American politician and jurist James Lick Robnett.
- 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: Reid Target entity description: Reid is a common Scottish and Irish surname that has been borne by numerous notable figures across fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
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A.
MacDouglas
MacDouglas is a Scottish surname variant of Douglas, traditionally associated with clans and families of Scottish heritage.
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B.
Scott Brown
Scott Brown is an American Republican politician and former U.S. Senator from Massachusetts who later served as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa.
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C.
Wilson
Wilson is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable figures across fields such as science, politics, sports, and the arts.
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D.
Sam Kennedy
Sam Kennedy is a Major League Baseball executive best known for serving as the president and CEO of the Boston Red Sox.
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E.
Robnett
Robnett is a given middle name that appears in the full name of individuals such as the American politician and jurist James Lick Robnett.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Irish surname
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Scottish surname ⓘ family name ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
English-language surnames
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Irish surnames ⓘ Scottish surnames ⓘ Surnames from nicknames ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalMeaning | red ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalType |
descriptive surname
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nickname surname ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
Irish
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Scots ⓘ Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Brian Reid
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Christopher Reid ⓘ Connie Reid ⓘ Duncan Reid ⓘ Gordon Reid ⓘ Harry Reid ⓘ Iain Reid ⓘ Jamie Reid ⓘ John Reid ⓘ Julian Reid ⓘ Michael Reid ⓘ Scott Reid ⓘ Steve Reid ⓘ Tara Reid ⓘ Thomas Reid ⓘ Tim Reid ⓘ Whitelaw Reid ⓘ |
| hasRegionOfOrigin |
Ireland
ⓘ
Scotland ⓘ |
| hasVariant |
Read
ⓘ
Redd ⓘ
linked to:
Reed
Reed ⓘ |
| isDerivedFrom |
Middle English word "rede" meaning "red"
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Scots word "reid" meaning "red" ⓘ |
| isOftenAssociatedWith |
red hair
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ruddy complexion ⓘ |
| isUsedInCountry |
Australia
ⓘ
Canada ⓘ Ireland ⓘ New Zealand ⓘ Scotland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United States ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
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: Reid Description of subject: Reid is a common Scottish and Irish surname that has been borne by numerous notable figures across fields such as science, politics, and the arts.
Referenced by (42)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
seismologist Harry Fielding Reid
subject linked to:
John Reid
subject linked to:
John Reid
subject linked to:
John Reid
subject linked to:
John Reid
subject linked to:
John Reid
subject linked to:
John Reid
subject linked to:
Michael Reid
subject linked to:
Michael Reid
subject linked to:
Michael Reid
subject linked to:
Michael Reid
subject linked to:
Whitelaw
subject linked to:
John