Gerald McEwen
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Gerald McEwen is a British geologist best known as the longtime husband of acclaimed novelist Hilary Mantel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Gerald McEwen canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4946363 — 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: Gerald McEwen Context triple: [Hilary Mantel, spouse, Gerald McEwen]
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A.
Mervyn Haisman
Mervyn Haisman was a British screenwriter best known for his work on television series such as Doctor Who and various film and TV projects in the 1960s and 1970s.
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B.
Geoffrey Charles Hurst
Geoffrey Charles Hurst is an English former footballer best known for scoring a hat-trick for England in the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final.
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C.
Roger Merrett
Roger Merrett is a former Australian rules footballer best known as a powerful key forward and captain who became a foundational figure for the Brisbane Bears in the VFL/AFL.
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D.
John Sergeant
John Sergeant was an American lawyer and politician from Pennsylvania who served multiple terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and was the National Republican vice-presidential nominee in 1832.
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E.
Gordon Juckes
Gordon Juckes was a prominent Canadian ice hockey administrator who played a key role in developing and promoting amateur hockey across Canada.
- 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: Gerald McEwen Target entity description: Gerald McEwen is a British geologist best known as the longtime husband of acclaimed novelist Hilary Mantel.
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A.
Mervyn Haisman
Mervyn Haisman was a British screenwriter best known for his work on television series such as Doctor Who and various film and TV projects in the 1960s and 1970s.
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B.
Geoffrey Charles Hurst
Geoffrey Charles Hurst is an English former footballer best known for scoring a hat-trick for England in the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final.
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C.
Roger Merrett
Roger Merrett is a former Australian rules footballer best known as a powerful key forward and captain who became a foundational figure for the Brisbane Bears in the VFL/AFL.
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D.
John Sergeant
John Sergeant was an American lawyer and politician from Pennsylvania who served multiple terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and was the National Republican vice-presidential nominee in 1832.
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E.
Gordon Juckes
Gordon Juckes was a prominent Canadian ice hockey administrator who played a key role in developing and promoting amateur hockey across Canada.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (9)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British person
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geologist ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the longtime husband of novelist Hilary Mantel ⓘ |
| occupation | geologist ⓘ |
| residence | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| spouse | Hilary Mantel ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | novelist ⓘ |
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: Gerald McEwen Description of subject: Gerald McEwen is a British geologist best known as the longtime husband of acclaimed novelist Hilary Mantel.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.