Sir William Geddes
E484448
Sir William Geddes was a 19th-century Scottish classical scholar and academic who served as Principal of the University of Aberdeen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sir William Geddes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4967285 — 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: Sir William Geddes Context triple: [Aberdeen Grammar School, hasNotableAlumnus, Sir William Geddes]
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A.
Sir William Crichton
Sir William Crichton was a 15th-century Scottish statesman and power broker who served as Lord Chancellor of Scotland and played a central role in the ruthless political intrigues of the minority reign of James II.
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B.
Sir John Aird
Sir John Aird was a prominent Canadian banker who served as president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and chaired the influential 1929 Aird Commission on public broadcasting.
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C.
Sir John Willison
Sir John Willison was a prominent Canadian journalist and newspaper editor known for his influential role in early 20th-century political and public affairs.
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D.
Sir William Hodge
Sir William Hodge was a distinguished British judge who served as a Lord Justice of Appeal and was known for his significant contributions to the English legal system.
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E.
Sir James Carlisle
Sir James Carlisle is a former Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda who served as the Queen’s representative and de facto head of state for the country.
- 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: Sir William Geddes Target entity description: Sir William Geddes was a 19th-century Scottish classical scholar and academic who served as Principal of the University of Aberdeen.
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A.
Sir William Crichton
Sir William Crichton was a 15th-century Scottish statesman and power broker who served as Lord Chancellor of Scotland and played a central role in the ruthless political intrigues of the minority reign of James II.
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B.
Sir John Aird
Sir John Aird was a prominent Canadian banker who served as president of the Canadian Bank of Commerce and chaired the influential 1929 Aird Commission on public broadcasting.
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C.
Sir John Willison
Sir John Willison was a prominent Canadian journalist and newspaper editor known for his influential role in early 20th-century political and public affairs.
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D.
Sir William Hodge
Sir William Hodge was a distinguished British judge who served as a Lord Justice of Appeal and was known for his significant contributions to the English legal system.
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E.
Sir James Carlisle
Sir James Carlisle is a former Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda who served as the Queen’s representative and de facto head of state for the country.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
academic
ⓘ
classical scholar ⓘ human ⓘ university principal ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline | humanities ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Aberdeen ⓘ |
| employer | University of Aberdeen ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
classical studies
ⓘ
classics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Principal ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Sir ⓘ |
| name | William Geddes ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | knighthood ⓘ |
| notableFor |
contributions to classical scholarship
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leadership of the University of Aberdeen ⓘ |
| occupation |
academic
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classical scholar ⓘ university administrator ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Principal of the University of Aberdeen ⓘ |
| residence |
Aberdeen
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Scotland ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Aberdeen
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Scotland ⓘ |
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: Sir William Geddes Description of subject: Sir William Geddes was a 19th-century Scottish classical scholar and academic who served as Principal of the University of Aberdeen.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.