Adam Duncan
E222858
Adam Duncan was an 18th-century British admiral best known for his decisive naval victory over the Dutch fleet at the Battle of Camperdown in 1797.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Adam Duncan canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1481113 — 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: Adam Duncan Context triple: [Battle of Camperdown, commander, Adam Duncan]
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A.
Andrew Duncan
Andrew Duncan was a British industrialist and politician who served as the United Kingdom’s Minister of Supply during the Second World War.
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B.
Eric Drummond
Eric Drummond was a British diplomat best known for serving as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, helping to shape the early framework of modern international diplomacy.
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C.
Douglas Hamilton
Douglas Hamilton is a Scottish noble titleholder best known as the 8th Duke of Hamilton, a prominent aristocrat of the 18th century.
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D.
Alexander Kirk
Alexander Kirk is a fictional character who appears as a mysterious antagonist in the television series "The Blacklist."
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E.
Alec Cameron
Alec Cameron is an Australian academic and higher education leader who serves as the Vice-Chancellor and President of RMIT University.
- 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: Adam Duncan Target entity description: Adam Duncan was an 18th-century British admiral best known for his decisive naval victory over the Dutch fleet at the Battle of Camperdown in 1797.
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A.
Andrew Duncan
Andrew Duncan was a British industrialist and politician who served as the United Kingdom’s Minister of Supply during the Second World War.
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B.
Eric Drummond
Eric Drummond was a British diplomat best known for serving as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations, helping to shape the early framework of modern international diplomacy.
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C.
Douglas Hamilton
Douglas Hamilton is a Scottish noble titleholder best known as the 8th Duke of Hamilton, a prominent aristocrat of the 18th century.
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D.
Alexander Kirk
Alexander Kirk is a fictional character who appears as a mysterious antagonist in the television series "The Blacklist."
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E.
Alec Cameron
Alec Cameron is an Australian academic and higher education leader who serves as the Vice-Chancellor and President of RMIT University.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Adam Duncan Description of subject: Adam Duncan was an 18th-century British admiral best known for his decisive naval victory over the Dutch fleet at the Battle of Camperdown in 1797.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.