Hercules Linton
E228312
Hercules Linton was a 19th-century Scottish shipbuilder and naval architect best known for designing the famous tea clipper Cutty Sark.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hercules Linton canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2058566 — 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: Hercules Linton Context triple: [Cutty Sark, designer, Hercules Linton]
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A.
Michael H. Hart
Michael H. Hart is an American astrophysicist and author best known for his work on the Fermi paradox and his controversial book "The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History."
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B.
Israel Regardie
Israel Regardie was a British occultist, writer, and ceremonial magician best known for preserving and publishing the teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and popularizing modern Hermetic Qabalah.
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C.
Erich Neumann
Erich Neumann was a German economist and Nazi official who held senior positions in the Third Reich’s economic administration and participated in high-level policy meetings during World War II.
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D.
Ian Greer
Ian Greer is a British academic and medical researcher who serves as the President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast.
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E.
George Wells
George Wells was an American screenwriter known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including several MGM musicals and comedies.
- 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: Hercules Linton Target entity description: Hercules Linton was a 19th-century Scottish shipbuilder and naval architect best known for designing the famous tea clipper Cutty Sark.
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A.
Michael H. Hart
Michael H. Hart is an American astrophysicist and author best known for his work on the Fermi paradox and his controversial book "The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History."
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B.
Israel Regardie
Israel Regardie was a British occultist, writer, and ceremonial magician best known for preserving and publishing the teachings of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and popularizing modern Hermetic Qabalah.
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C.
Erich Neumann
Erich Neumann was a German economist and Nazi official who held senior positions in the Third Reich’s economic administration and participated in high-level policy meetings during World War II.
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D.
Ian Greer
Ian Greer is a British academic and medical researcher who serves as the President and Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast.
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E.
George Wells
George Wells was an American screenwriter known for his work on classic Hollywood films, including several MGM musicals and comedies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
naval architect
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person ⓘ shipbuilder ⓘ |
| centuryActive | 19th century ⓘ |
| designed | Cutty Sark ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
naval architecture
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shipbuilding ⓘ |
| knownFor | designing the tea clipper Cutty Sark ⓘ |
| name | Hercules Linton ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| occupation |
naval architect
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shipbuilder ⓘ |
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: Hercules Linton Description of subject: Hercules Linton was a 19th-century Scottish shipbuilder and naval architect best known for designing the famous tea clipper Cutty Sark.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.