Alistair Donald
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Alistair Donald is a British filmmaker and photographer known for his work in documentary and commercial projects and for his past marriage to fashion designer Stella McCartney.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alistair Donald canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2031464 — 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: Alistair Donald Context triple: [Beatrice McCartney, relative, Alistair Donald]
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A.
Duncan Stewart
Duncan Stewart is a music producer best known for his work on U2’s album "Songs of Surrender."
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B.
Duncan Reid
Duncan Reid is a musician best known as the former bassist and vocalist for the UK punk band The Boys and for his solo work with Duncan Reid and the Big Heads.
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C.
Ian Pringle
Ian Pringle is a film producer best known for his work on the influential Australian drama "Romper Stomper."
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Alistair Donald Target entity description: Alistair Donald is a British filmmaker and photographer known for his work in documentary and commercial projects and for his past marriage to fashion designer Stella McCartney.
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A.
Duncan Stewart
Duncan Stewart is a music producer best known for his work on U2’s album "Songs of Surrender."
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B.
Duncan Reid
Duncan Reid is a musician best known as the former bassist and vocalist for the UK punk band The Boys and for his solo work with Duncan Reid and the Big Heads.
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C.
Ian Pringle
Ian Pringle is a film producer best known for his work on the influential Australian drama "Romper Stomper."
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
filmmaker
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person ⓘ photographer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | White British ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
commercial filmmaking
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documentary filmmaking ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| genre | documentary film ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
commercial film projects
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documentary projects ⓘ marriage to Stella McCartney ⓘ |
| occupation |
filmmaker
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photographer ⓘ |
| sexualOrientation | heterosexual ⓘ |
| spouse | Stella McCartney ⓘ |
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: Alistair Donald Description of subject: Alistair Donald is a British filmmaker and photographer known for his work in documentary and commercial projects and for his past marriage to fashion designer Stella McCartney.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.