David Stevenson
E471096
David Stevenson was a Scottish lighthouse engineer and member of the famous Stevenson family of civil engineers.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Stevenson canonical | 8 |
| Alan Stevenson | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4729857 — 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 Stevenson Context triple: [David Alan Stevenson, father, David Stevenson]
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A.
Tim Stevenson
Tim Stevenson is a British public servant who has served as the ceremonial representative of the monarch in Oxfordshire.
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B.
Dani Stevenson
Dani Stevenson is an American R&B singer best known for her early-2000s work, including featured and background vocals on popular hip-hop and R&B tracks.
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C.
Roger Stevens
Roger Stevens was a prominent British civil servant and diplomat who notably served as the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds.
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D.
Andrew Stewart
Andrew Stewart is an American lawyer and publisher best known as the former husband of lifestyle entrepreneur Martha Stewart.
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E.
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
- 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 Stevenson Target entity description: David Stevenson was a Scottish lighthouse engineer and member of the famous Stevenson family of civil engineers.
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A.
Tim Stevenson
Tim Stevenson is a British public servant who has served as the ceremonial representative of the monarch in Oxfordshire.
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B.
Dani Stevenson
Dani Stevenson is an American R&B singer best known for her early-2000s work, including featured and background vocals on popular hip-hop and R&B tracks.
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C.
Roger Stevens
Roger Stevens was a prominent British civil servant and diplomat who notably served as the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds.
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D.
Andrew Stewart
Andrew Stewart is an American lawyer and publisher best known as the former husband of lifestyle entrepreneur Martha Stewart.
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E.
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil engineer
ⓘ
human ⓘ lighthouse engineer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish people ⓘ |
| familyName | Stevenson ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil engineering
ⓘ
lighthouse engineering ⓘ maritime safety ⓘ |
| genre | engineering ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
Stevenson family of civil engineers
ⓘ
linked to:
Stevenson family of engineers
|
| industry | maritime engineering ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Stevenson family
ⓘ
linked to:
Stevenson political family
|
| notableFamily | Stevenson family of engineers ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to lighthouse construction in Scotland
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membership in the famous Stevenson engineering dynasty ⓘ |
| notableWork | design of Scottish lighthouses ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil engineer
ⓘ
lighthouse engineer ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Scotland ⓘ |
| workLocation | Scottish coasts ⓘ |
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 Stevenson Description of subject: David Stevenson was a Scottish lighthouse engineer and member of the famous Stevenson family of civil engineers.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: David Stevenson