Philip May
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Philip May is a British investment manager best known as the husband of former UK Prime Minister Theresa May.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Philip May canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T598954 — 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: Philip May Context triple: [Theresa May, spouse, Philip May]
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A.
Philip Vian
Philip Vian was a distinguished British Royal Navy admiral known for his aggressive leadership in destroyer actions and key naval engagements during the Second World War.
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B.
Ernest Merritt
Ernest Merritt was an American physicist and academic who co-founded the influential scientific journal Physical Review and helped shape early 20th-century physics research in the United States.
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C.
Stephen Russell Davies
Stephen Russell Davies, better known as Russell T Davies, is a Welsh television writer and producer renowned for reviving Doctor Who and creating influential dramas such as Queer as Folk and It's a Sin.
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D.
Rupert Holmes
Rupert Holmes is a British-American composer, singer-songwriter, playwright, and author best known for writing and performing the hit song "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" and for his work in musical theatre and mystery fiction.
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E.
Alan Webber
Alan Webber is an American politician and former business magazine co-founder who serves as the mayor of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- 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: Philip May Target entity description: Philip May is a British investment manager best known as the husband of former UK Prime Minister Theresa May.
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A.
Philip Vian
Philip Vian was a distinguished British Royal Navy admiral known for his aggressive leadership in destroyer actions and key naval engagements during the Second World War.
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B.
Ernest Merritt
Ernest Merritt was an American physicist and academic who co-founded the influential scientific journal Physical Review and helped shape early 20th-century physics research in the United States.
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C.
Stephen Russell Davies
Stephen Russell Davies, better known as Russell T Davies, is a Welsh television writer and producer renowned for reviving Doctor Who and creating influential dramas such as Queer as Folk and It's a Sin.
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D.
Rupert Holmes
Rupert Holmes is a British-American composer, singer-songwriter, playwright, and author best known for writing and performing the hit song "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)" and for his work in musical theatre and mystery fiction.
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E.
Alan Webber
Alan Webber is an American politician and former business magazine co-founder who serves as the mayor of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
investment manager ⓘ |
| almaMater | University of Oxford ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Lincoln College, Oxford ⓘ |
| employer | Capital Group ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
finance
ⓘ
investment management ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| memberOf | Conservative Party (UK) ⓘ |
| name | Philip May ⓘ |
| nationality | British ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the husband of former UK Prime Minister Theresa May ⓘ |
| occupation | investment manager ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Conservative ⓘ |
| residence |
Maidenhead, Berkshire, England
ⓘ
linked to:
Maidenhead
Sonning, Berkshire, England ⓘ |
| spouse | Theresa May ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation | politician ⓘ |
| spousePositionHeld |
Home Secretary of the United Kingdom
ⓘ
linked to:
Home Secretary
Leader of the Conservative Party (UK) ⓘ Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| spouseStartTime | 1980 ⓘ |
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: Philip May Description of subject: Philip May is a British investment manager best known as the husband of former UK Prime Minister Theresa May.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.