David Semple
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David Semple was a British bacteriologist best known for developing an early anti-rabies vaccine while serving in the Indian Medical Service.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Semple canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3974107 — 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 Semple Context triple: [Indian Medical Service, notableMember, David Semple]
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A.
Robert Semple
Robert Semple was an early California pioneer, printer, and political leader who played a key role in the transition of California to statehood.
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B.
Robert McMillan
Robert McMillan was a historical figure known as the original owner of the ship Balclutha, a notable sailing vessel from the late 19th century.
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C.
John Dolman
John Dolman was an English clergyman and benefactor of the late 16th century best known for establishing Pocklington School in Yorkshire.
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D.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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E.
David Gill
David Gill was a British television producer and film historian best known for his acclaimed documentaries on cinema history, including collaborations with Kevin Brownlow.
- 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 Semple Target entity description: David Semple was a British bacteriologist best known for developing an early anti-rabies vaccine while serving in the Indian Medical Service.
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A.
Robert Semple
Robert Semple was an early California pioneer, printer, and political leader who played a key role in the transition of California to statehood.
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B.
Robert McMillan
Robert McMillan was a historical figure known as the original owner of the ship Balclutha, a notable sailing vessel from the late 19th century.
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C.
John Dolman
John Dolman was an English clergyman and benefactor of the late 16th century best known for establishing Pocklington School in Yorkshire.
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D.
Richard Bristow
Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
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E.
David Gill
David Gill was a British television producer and film historian best known for his acclaimed documentaries on cinema history, including collaborations with Kevin Brownlow.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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bacteriologist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
infectious disease control
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public health ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| developed | nerve-tissue-based anti-rabies vaccine ⓘ |
| employer | Indian Medical Service ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | bacteriology ⓘ |
| genre | scientific research ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| knownFor | development of an early anti-rabies vaccine ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Indian Medical Service ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | introduction of a nerve-tissue-based rabies vaccine ⓘ |
| notableFor | Semple-type rabies vaccine ⓘ |
| notableWork | anti-rabies vaccine ⓘ |
| occupation | bacteriologist ⓘ |
| studied |
infectious diseases
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rabies ⓘ |
| workedOn |
rabies prophylaxis
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vaccine development ⓘ |
| workLocation | India ⓘ |
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 Semple Description of subject: David Semple was a British bacteriologist best known for developing an early anti-rabies vaccine while serving in the Indian Medical Service.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.