McAlpine
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McAlpine is a major British construction and civil engineering company founded by Sir Robert McAlpine, known for its role in building prominent infrastructure and landmark projects across the UK.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| McAlpine canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6532769 — 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: McAlpine Context triple: [Sir Robert McAlpine, alsoKnownAs, McAlpine]
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A.
MacKay
MacKay is a Scottish surname historically associated with the Clan Mackay of the Scottish Highlands and borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, and sciences.
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B.
Maclean
Maclean is a riverside town in northern New South Wales, Australia, known for its strong Scottish heritage and annual Highland Gathering.
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C.
Erskine
Erskine is a masculine given name of Scottish origin, traditionally used as both a first name and a surname.
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D.
MacRae
MacRae is a Scottish surname associated with various notable individuals in fields such as entertainment, sports, and public life.
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E.
MacLeod
MacLeod is a Scottish surname historically associated with the Highlands and the Isle of Skye, borne by various notable figures in politics, arts, and public life.
- 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: McAlpine Target entity description: McAlpine is a major British construction and civil engineering company founded by Sir Robert McAlpine, known for its role in building prominent infrastructure and landmark projects across the UK.
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A.
MacKay
MacKay is a Scottish surname historically associated with the Clan Mackay of the Scottish Highlands and borne by numerous notable figures in politics, arts, and sciences.
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B.
Maclean
Maclean is a riverside town in northern New South Wales, Australia, known for its strong Scottish heritage and annual Highland Gathering.
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C.
Erskine
Erskine is a masculine given name of Scottish origin, traditionally used as both a first name and a surname.
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D.
MacRae
MacRae is a Scottish surname associated with various notable individuals in fields such as entertainment, sports, and public life.
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E.
MacLeod
MacLeod is a Scottish surname historically associated with the Highlands and the Isle of Skye, borne by various notable figures in politics, arts, and public life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
civil engineering company
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construction company ⓘ |
| businessType | private company ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
building construction
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civil engineering design ⓘ infrastructure development ⓘ project management ⓘ |
| foundedBy | Sir Robert McAlpine ⓘ |
| hasAreaServed | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasFounder | Sir Robert McAlpine ⓘ |
| hasFounderOccupation |
civil engineer
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contractor ⓘ |
| hasReputationFor |
engineering expertise
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major UK construction projects ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| industry |
civil engineering
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construction ⓘ |
| locationCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Sir Robert McAlpine ⓘ |
| notableFor |
landmark building projects in the United Kingdom
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prominent infrastructure projects in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| operatesInSector |
civil engineering works
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commercial construction ⓘ infrastructure ⓘ |
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: McAlpine Description of subject: McAlpine is a major British construction and civil engineering company founded by Sir Robert McAlpine, known for its role in building prominent infrastructure and landmark projects across the UK.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.