Hamilton
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Hamilton is a common English and Scottish surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, the arts, sports, and other fields.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hamilton canonical | 120 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4869731 — 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: Hamilton Context triple: [Guy Hamilton, familyName, Hamilton]
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Hamilton
Hamilton is a major industrial port city in Ontario, Canada, known for its steel production and location on the western tip of Lake Ontario.
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B.
Hamilton
Hamilton is a major inland city in New Zealand’s Waikato region, known for its role as an agricultural, educational, and commercial hub on the North Island.
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C.
Hamilton
Hamilton is a small city in western Georgia that serves as the administrative and cultural hub of Harris County.
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D.
Hamilton
Hamilton is a railway station in New South Wales, Australia, serving the inner western suburbs of Newcastle.
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E.
Hamilton
Hamilton is a riverside suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, known for its affluent residential areas, heritage homes, and proximity to the Brisbane River and city amenities.
- 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: Hamilton Target entity description: Hamilton is a common English and Scottish surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, the arts, sports, and other fields.
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A.
Hamilton
Hamilton is a masculine given name of English and Scottish origin, used both as a first name and a surname.
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B.
Hamilton
Hamilton is a large town in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, historically known as a key administrative and market center in the region.
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C.
Hamilton
Hamilton is a critically acclaimed Broadway musical that blends hip-hop, R&B, and traditional show tunes to tell the story of American Founding Father Alexander Hamilton.
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D.
Hamilton
Hamilton is a major inland city in New Zealand’s Waikato region, known for its role as an agricultural, educational, and commercial hub on the North Island.
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E.
Hamilton
Hamilton is a small city in western Georgia that serves as the administrative and cultural hub of Harris County.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English-language surname
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Scottish surname ⓘ family name ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
patronymic surname
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toponymic surname ⓘ |
| hasLanguage |
English
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Scottish English ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearerOccupation |
actor
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actress ⓘ architect ⓘ artist ⓘ composer ⓘ diplomat ⓘ economist ⓘ engineer ⓘ footballer ⓘ historian ⓘ jurist ⓘ mathematician ⓘ military officer ⓘ musician ⓘ nobleman ⓘ philosopher ⓘ poet ⓘ politician ⓘ racing driver ⓘ scientist ⓘ software engineer ⓘ statesman ⓘ surfer ⓘ theologian ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| hasOrigin |
England
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Scotland ⓘ |
| usedBy |
Alastair Hamilton
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Alexander Hamilton ⓘ Bethany Hamilton ⓘ David Hamilton ⓘ Emma Hamilton ⓘ Gavin Hamilton ⓘ George Hamilton ⓘ Ian Hamilton ⓘ James Hamilton ⓘ Lewis Hamilton ⓘ Linda Hamilton ⓘ Margaret Hamilton ⓘ Patrick Hamilton ⓘ Richard Hamilton ⓘ William Rowan Hamilton ⓘ |
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: Hamilton Description of subject: Hamilton is a common English and Scottish surname borne by numerous notable figures in politics, the arts, sports, and other fields.
Referenced by (120)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Edward Hamilton
subject linked to:
Edward Hamilton
subject linked to:
Edward Hamilton
subject linked to:
Edward Hamilton