Alastair Stewart
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Alastair Stewart is a British journalist and long-serving television news presenter best known for his work with ITN and ITV News.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alastair Stewart canonical | 3 |
| Alastair Ian Stewart | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1641622 — 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: Alastair Stewart Context triple: [University of Bristol, hasNotableAlumni, Alastair Stewart]
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A.
Alastair Grahame
Alastair Grahame was the only son of British author Kenneth Grahame, whose troubled life and early death are often linked to the darker undercurrents in his father's classic work "The Wind in the Willows."
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B.
Graham Stanton
Graham Stanton is a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Fighter Command.
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C.
Alastair Hamilton
Alastair Hamilton is a British historian and scholar known for his work on religious history, particularly the interactions between Christianity and Islam in early modern Europe.
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D.
Colin Cameron
Colin Cameron is a Scottish former professional footballer and midfielder who played for clubs including Raith Rovers, Hearts, Wolves, and the Scotland national team before moving into coaching.
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E.
Richard Hiscott
Richard Hiscott is an editor known for his work on the television series "Willow."
- 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: Alastair Stewart Target entity description: Alastair Stewart is a British journalist and long-serving television news presenter best known for his work with ITN and ITV News.
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A.
Alastair Grahame
Alastair Grahame was the only son of British author Kenneth Grahame, whose troubled life and early death are often linked to the darker undercurrents in his father's classic work "The Wind in the Willows."
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B.
Graham Stanton
Graham Stanton is a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Fighter Command.
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C.
Alastair Hamilton
Alastair Hamilton is a British historian and scholar known for his work on religious history, particularly the interactions between Christianity and Islam in early modern Europe.
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D.
Colin Cameron
Colin Cameron is a Scottish former professional footballer and midfielder who played for clubs including Raith Rovers, Hearts, Wolves, and the Scotland national team before moving into coaching.
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E.
Richard Hiscott
Richard Hiscott is an editor known for his work on the television series "Willow."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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journalist ⓘ newsreader ⓘ television presenter ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Order of the British Empire ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Salesian College, Farnborough
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University of Bristol ⓘ |
| employer |
Channel 4 News (early career, via ITN)
ⓘ
linked to:
ITN
GB News ⓘ ITN ⓘ ITV ⓘ ITV News ⓘ
linked to:
ITN
|
| fieldOfWork |
broadcast journalism
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television journalism ⓘ |
| genre |
current affairs broadcasting
ⓘ
television news ⓘ |
| hasChild | 4 children ⓘ |
| hasEthnicGroup | White British ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the longest-serving male national newsreaders on British television
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long-serving ITN news presenter ⓘ presenting ITV national news bulletins ⓘ |
| notableWork |
ITV Evening News
ⓘ
linked to:
ITN
ITV Lunchtime News ⓘ
linked to:
ITN
ITV News at Ten ⓘ
linked to:
ITV
News at Ten ⓘ Police, Camera, Action! ⓘ
linked to:
Cops
|
| occupation |
journalist
ⓘ
news presenter ⓘ television newsreader ⓘ |
| spouse | Sally Ann Stewart ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London
ⓘ
linked to:
London, England
|
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: Alastair Stewart Description of subject: Alastair Stewart is a British journalist and long-serving television news presenter best known for his work with ITN and ITV News.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alastair Stewart