Lidington
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Lidington is an English surname most notably borne by British Conservative politician David Lidington.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lidington canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2401134 — 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: Lidington Context triple: [David Lidington, familyName, Lidington]
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A.
Rustington
Rustington is a large coastal village and civil parish on the English Channel in the Arun District of West Sussex, England.
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B.
Letcombe Regis
Letcombe Regis is a small rural village in Oxfordshire, England, situated near the market town of Wantage on the edge of the Berkshire Downs.
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C.
Billingshurst
Billingshurst is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England, known for its historic High Street and role as a local residential and commercial centre.
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D.
Yateley
Yateley is a small town in northeast Hampshire, England, known for its residential character, local schools, and nearby lakes and heathland.
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E.
Ashtead
Ashtead is a large suburban village in Surrey, England, known for its residential character, local amenities, and proximity to the town of Leatherhead.
- 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: Lidington Target entity description: Lidington is an English surname most notably borne by British Conservative politician David Lidington.
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A.
Rustington
Rustington is a large coastal village and civil parish on the English Channel in the Arun District of West Sussex, England.
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B.
Letcombe Regis
Letcombe Regis is a small rural village in Oxfordshire, England, situated near the market town of Wantage on the edge of the Berkshire Downs.
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C.
Billingshurst
Billingshurst is a large village and civil parish in the Horsham District of West Sussex, England, known for its historic High Street and role as a local residential and commercial centre.
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D.
Yateley
Yateley is a small town in northeast Hampshire, England, known for its residential character, local schools, and nearby lakes and heathland.
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E.
Ashtead
Ashtead is a large suburban village in Surrey, England, known for its residential character, local amenities, and proximity to the town of Leatherhead.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British politician
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Conservative Party politician ⓘ English-language surname ⓘ human ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| familyName | Lidington ⓘ |
| hasGenderForm | gender-neutral surname ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer | David Lidington ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | English ⓘ |
| nameType | family name ⓘ |
| usedInCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| writingSystem | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
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: Lidington Description of subject: Lidington is an English surname most notably borne by British Conservative politician David Lidington.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lidington