Hew Lorimer
E188891
Hew Lorimer was a 20th-century Scottish sculptor known for his religious and architectural stone carvings that feature prominently on notable public buildings in Scotland.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hew Lorimer canonical | 6 |
| James Lorimer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T803784 — 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: Hew Lorimer Context triple: [St Andrew's House, Edinburgh, hasSculpturalWorkBy, Hew Lorimer]
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A.
Stanley Unwin
Stanley Unwin was a prominent British publisher best known for championing and publishing works such as J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings."
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B.
Lorimer Rich
Lorimer Rich was an American architect best known for co-designing the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
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C.
Lloyd Bryce
Lloyd Bryce was an American editor, politician, and diplomat best known for his influential leadership of the North American Review in the late 19th century.
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D.
Harold Morrison
Harold Morrison was a Jamaican-born architect and academic best known as the former husband of Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison.
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E.
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.
- 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: Hew Lorimer Target entity description: Hew Lorimer was a 20th-century Scottish sculptor known for his religious and architectural stone carvings that feature prominently on notable public buildings in Scotland.
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A.
Stanley Unwin
Stanley Unwin was a prominent British publisher best known for championing and publishing works such as J.R.R. Tolkien’s "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings."
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B.
Lorimer Rich
Lorimer Rich was an American architect best known for co-designing the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
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C.
Lloyd Bryce
Lloyd Bryce was an American editor, politician, and diplomat best known for his influential leadership of the North American Review in the late 19th century.
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D.
Harold Morrison
Harold Morrison was a Jamaican-born architect and academic best known as the former husband of Nobel Prize–winning author Toni Morrison.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish artist
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human ⓘ sculptor ⓘ |
| artisticMedium |
carved stone
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stone ⓘ |
| artisticStyle | figurative ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 20th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName |
Lorimer
ⓘ
linked to:
Lorimer Rich
|
| fieldOfWork |
architectural sculpture
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religious art ⓘ sculpture ⓘ stone carving ⓘ |
| genre |
architectural sculpture
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religious sculpture ⓘ |
| givenName | Hew ⓘ |
| hasWorkType |
architectural reliefs
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figurative stone sculpture ⓘ religious carvings for churches ⓘ |
| movement | 20th-century Scottish sculpture ⓘ |
| name | Hew Lorimer ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableFor |
architectural stone carvings
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public building sculpture in Scotland ⓘ religious stone carvings ⓘ |
| occupation | sculptor ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| workLocation | public buildings in Scotland ⓘ |
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: Hew Lorimer Description of subject: Hew Lorimer was a 20th-century Scottish sculptor known for his religious and architectural stone carvings that feature prominently on notable public buildings in Scotland.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Hew Lorimer
subject linked to:
Our Lady of the Isles statue
subject linked to:
Our Lady of the Isles statue
subject linked to:
Lorimer