Greyfriars Bobby's owner John Gray
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Greyfriars Bobby's owner John Gray was a 19th-century Edinburgh night watchman best known as the master of the loyal Skye terrier who famously guarded his grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Greyfriars Bobby's owner John Gray canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5438539 — 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: Greyfriars Bobby's owner John Gray Context triple: [Greyfriars Kirkyard, containsGraveOf, Greyfriars Bobby's owner John Gray]
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A.
George Heriot
George Heriot was a wealthy 16th–17th century Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist whose endowments notably supported education in Edinburgh.
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B.
Sir John Brown of Fordell
Sir John Brown of Fordell was a 17th-century Scottish military leader and nobleman best known for commanding forces at the Battle of Inverkeithing during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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C.
St Boswells
St Boswells is a village in the Scottish Borders region of Scotland, known for its picturesque rural setting and historic market-town character.
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D.
Bartholomew Green
Bartholomew Green was a prominent early 18th-century Boston printer and publisher known for producing influential colonial American works.
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E.
High Kirk of Glasgow
The High Kirk of Glasgow is a medieval Scottish cathedral renowned for its Gothic architecture and status as one of the few mainland Scottish churches to have survived the Reformation intact.
- 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: Greyfriars Bobby's owner John Gray Target entity description: Greyfriars Bobby's owner John Gray was a 19th-century Edinburgh night watchman best known as the master of the loyal Skye terrier who famously guarded his grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
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A.
George Heriot
George Heriot was a wealthy 16th–17th century Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist whose endowments notably supported education in Edinburgh.
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B.
Sir John Brown of Fordell
Sir John Brown of Fordell was a 17th-century Scottish military leader and nobleman best known for commanding forces at the Battle of Inverkeithing during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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C.
St Boswells
St Boswells is a village in the Scottish Borders region of Scotland, known for its picturesque rural setting and historic market-town character.
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D.
Bartholomew Green
Bartholomew Green was a prominent early 18th-century Boston printer and publisher known for producing influential colonial American works.
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E.
High Kirk of Glasgow
The High Kirk of Glasgow is a medieval Scottish cathedral renowned for its Gothic architecture and status as one of the few mainland Scottish churches to have survived the Reformation intact.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
night watchman ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Edinburgh
ⓘ
Greyfriars Bobby ⓘ Greyfriars Kirkyard ⓘ |
| burialPlotGuardedBy | Greyfriars Bobby ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Scotland ⓘ |
| culture | Scottish ⓘ |
| employer |
Edinburgh Town Council
ⓘ
linked to:
Town Council of Edinburgh
Edinburgh police ⓘ
linked to:
Lothian and Borders Police
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasGraveVisitedBy | Greyfriars Bobby ⓘ |
| hasLegendAbout | loyal dog guarding his grave ⓘ |
| hasName | John Gray ⓘ |
| hasPet | Greyfriars Bobby ⓘ |
| influenced | popular image of loyalty in dogs ⓘ |
| knownAs | Auld Jock ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a 19th-century Edinburgh night watchman
ⓘ
being the master of Greyfriars Bobby ⓘ |
| occupation | night watchman ⓘ |
| ownerOf | Greyfriars Bobby ⓘ |
| partOf |
history of Edinburgh
ⓘ
legend of Greyfriars Bobby ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Greyfriars Kirkyard ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 19th century ⓘ |
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: Greyfriars Bobby's owner John Gray Description of subject: Greyfriars Bobby's owner John Gray was a 19th-century Edinburgh night watchman best known as the master of the loyal Skye terrier who famously guarded his grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.