Walter Stott
E205653
Walter Stott was the husband of mathematician Alicia Boole Stott, who was known for her pioneering work on four-dimensional polytopes.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter Stott canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T693145 — 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: Walter Stott Context triple: [Alicia Boole Stott, spouse, Walter Stott]
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A.
Victor A. Crutchley
Victor A. Crutchley was a British Royal Navy admiral and Victoria Cross recipient who served with distinction in both World Wars.
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B.
Maurice Cowling
Maurice Cowling was a British historian and conservative political thinker known for his influential work on modern British political history and his association with the Peterhouse school at the University of Cambridge.
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C.
John L. Lumley
John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
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D.
Guy Simonds
Guy Simonds was a prominent Canadian general of the Second World War, noted for his leadership of Canadian forces in major Northwest Europe campaigns.
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E.
Claude Auchinleck
Claude Auchinleck was a senior British Army officer and field marshal best known for his leadership of Allied forces in the Middle East during the early stages of 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: Walter Stott Target entity description: Walter Stott was the husband of mathematician Alicia Boole Stott, who was known for her pioneering work on four-dimensional polytopes.
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A.
Victor A. Crutchley
Victor A. Crutchley was a British Royal Navy admiral and Victoria Cross recipient who served with distinction in both World Wars.
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B.
Maurice Cowling
Maurice Cowling was a British historian and conservative political thinker known for his influential work on modern British political history and his association with the Peterhouse school at the University of Cambridge.
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C.
John L. Lumley
John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
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D.
Guy Simonds
Guy Simonds was a prominent Canadian general of the Second World War, noted for his leadership of Canadian forces in major Northwest Europe campaigns.
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E.
Claude Auchinleck
Claude Auchinleck was a senior British Army officer and field marshal best known for his leadership of Allied forces in the Middle East during the early stages of World War II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (5)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the husband of mathematician Alicia Boole Stott ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage |
George Boole
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Mary Everest Boole ⓘ |
| spouse | Alicia Boole Stott ⓘ |
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: Walter Stott Description of subject: Walter Stott was the husband of mathematician Alicia Boole Stott, who was known for her pioneering work on four-dimensional polytopes.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.