Thomas Stevenson
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Thomas Stevenson was a prominent 19th-century Scottish civil engineer and lighthouse designer, best known as the father of author Robert Louis Stevenson.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Stevenson canonical | 14 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3035946 — 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: Thomas Stevenson Context triple: [Robert Louis Stevenson, father, Thomas Stevenson]
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A.
Edward John Stevenson
Edward John Stevenson was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc du Tacul in the Alps.
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Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson was a British film director best known for his work on classic Disney live-action films, including the family drama "Old Yeller."
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Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer best known for designing and building numerous lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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D.
Edward Stevenson
Edward Stevenson was an American costume designer renowned for his influential work in Hollywood’s Golden Age, including creating iconic wardrobes for stars like Lucille Ball.
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E.
William Stevenson
William "Mickey" Stevenson is an American songwriter and record producer best known as Motown's first A&R director, where he helped craft numerous hits for artists like Martha and the Vandellas.
- 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: Thomas Stevenson Target entity description: Thomas Stevenson was a prominent 19th-century Scottish civil engineer and lighthouse designer, best known as the father of author Robert Louis Stevenson.
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A.
Edward John Stevenson
Edward John Stevenson was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc du Tacul in the Alps.
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B.
Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson was a British film director best known for his work on classic Disney live-action films, including the family drama "Old Yeller."
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C.
Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer best known for designing and building numerous lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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D.
Edward Stevenson
Edward Stevenson was an American costume designer renowned for his influential work in Hollywood’s Golden Age, including creating iconic wardrobes for stars like Lucille Ball.
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E.
William Stevenson
William "Mickey" Stevenson is an American songwriter and record producer best known as Motown's first A&R director, where he helped craft numerous hits for artists like Martha and the Vandellas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: Thomas Stevenson Description of subject: Thomas Stevenson was a prominent 19th-century Scottish civil engineer and lighthouse designer, best known as the father of author Robert Louis Stevenson.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
“The Design and Construction of Harbours”
subject linked to:
“Lighthouse Construction and Illumination”