David Paton
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David Paton was a 19th-century architect best known for designing the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Paton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T659267 — 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 Paton Context triple: [North Carolina State Capitol, architect, David Paton]
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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.
Angus Campbell
Angus Campbell is a senior Australian Army officer who has served as Chief of the Defence Force.
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C.
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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D.
Robert Semple
Robert Semple was an early California pioneer, printer, and political leader who played a key role in the transition of California to statehood.
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E.
Malcolm MacDonald
Malcolm MacDonald was a British politician and diplomat, notably serving as a cabinet minister in several interwar and postwar governments and later as a high commissioner and governor in various parts of the British Empire and Commonwealth.
- 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 Paton Target entity description: David Paton was a 19th-century architect best known for designing the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh.
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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.
Angus Campbell
Angus Campbell is a senior Australian Army officer who has served as Chief of the Defence Force.
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C.
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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D.
Robert Semple
Robert Semple was an early California pioneer, printer, and political leader who played a key role in the transition of California to statehood.
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E.
Malcolm MacDonald
Malcolm MacDonald was a British politician and diplomat, notably serving as a cabinet minister in several interwar and postwar governments and later as a high commissioner and governor in various parts of the British Empire and Commonwealth.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
architect
ⓘ
government building ⓘ human ⓘ state capitol building ⓘ |
| architect | David Paton ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfWork |
United States
ⓘ
linked to:
United States of America
|
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| knownFor | designing the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh ⓘ |
| location |
Raleigh, North Carolina
ⓘ
linked to:
Raleigh
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| notableWork |
North Carolina State Capitol
ⓘ
linked to:
North Carolina State Capitol (Raleigh)
|
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
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 Paton Description of subject: David Paton was a 19th-century architect best known for designing the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
North Carolina State Capitol (Raleigh)
subject linked to:
David Paton