David Hartnett
E263422
David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Hartnett canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2351699 — 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: David Hartnett Context triple: [Hartnett, hasNotableBearer, David Hartnett]
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A.
David Arnold
David Arnold is a British film composer best known for his work on several James Bond soundtracks and other major Hollywood films.
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B.
Robert Hartnett
Robert Hartnett is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Hartnett.
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C.
Stephen F. Martin
Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
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D.
Graham Carr
Graham Carr is a Canadian academic and administrator who serves as the president of Concordia University in Montreal.
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E.
David Ford
David Ford is a Northern Irish politician and former leader of the Alliance Party who became the first person to serve as Northern Ireland’s Minister of Justice after the devolution of policing and justice powers.
- 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: David Hartnett Target entity description: David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
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A.
David Arnold
David Arnold is a British film composer best known for his work on several James Bond soundtracks and other major Hollywood films.
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B.
Robert Hartnett
Robert Hartnett is an individual notable enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the surname Hartnett.
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C.
Stephen F. Martin
Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
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D.
Graham Carr
Graham Carr is a Canadian academic and administrator who serves as the president of Concordia University in Montreal.
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E.
David Ford
David Ford is a Northern Irish politician and former leader of the Alliance Party who became the first person to serve as Northern Ireland’s Minister of Justice after the devolution of policing and justice powers.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
ⓘ
civil servant ⓘ |
| affiliation | HM Revenue and Customs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| employer | HM Revenue and Customs ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
public administration
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tax administration ⓘ |
| governmentAgency | HM Revenue and Customs ⓘ |
| hasRole |
senior civil service leadership
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tax policy leadership ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| name | David Hartnett ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the UK’s top tax official
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serving as Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs ⓘ |
| occupation | civil servant ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Permanent Secretary for Tax
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linked to:
Permanent Secretary to the Treasury
top tax official of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| sector | public sector ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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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: David Hartnett Description of subject: David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.