Hamilton Gault
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Hamilton Gault was a Canadian businessman and militia officer best known for raising and founding the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry at the outset of the First World War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hamilton Gault canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9365168 — 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: Hamilton Gault Context triple: [PPCLI, foundedBy, Hamilton Gault]
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A.
Charles Grigsby
Charles Grigsby is an American singer best known for reaching the finals on the second season of the television talent competition American Idol.
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B.
Arthur Smith
Arthur Smith is a member of the Smith family, known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
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C.
John Goodland
John Goodland is a notable individual associated with Grand Chute, Wisconsin, recognized for his significance to the local community.
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D.
Holter Graham
Holter Graham is an American actor and audiobook narrator known for voicing numerous popular titles across fiction and non-fiction.
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E.
James Reed
James Reed is a filmmaker best known for co-directing the Oscar-winning nature documentary "My Octopus Teacher."
- 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: Hamilton Gault Target entity description: Hamilton Gault was a Canadian businessman and militia officer best known for raising and founding the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry at the outset of the First World War.
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A.
Charles Grigsby
Charles Grigsby is an American singer best known for reaching the finals on the second season of the television talent competition American Idol.
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B.
Arthur Smith
Arthur Smith is a member of the Smith family, known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
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C.
John Goodland
John Goodland is a notable individual associated with Grand Chute, Wisconsin, recognized for his significance to the local community.
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D.
Holter Graham
Holter Graham is an American actor and audiobook narrator known for voicing numerous popular titles across fiction and non-fiction.
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E.
James Reed
James Reed is a filmmaker best known for co-directing the Oscar-winning nature documentary "My Octopus Teacher."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (17)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Canadian military officer
ⓘ
human ⓘ infantry regiment ⓘ |
| conflict |
First World War
ⓘ
linked to:
World War I
First World War ⓘ
linked to:
World War I
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| country | Canada ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Canada ⓘ |
| founderOf |
Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
ⓘ
linked to:
Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
|
| hasFamilyName | Gault ⓘ |
| hasFounder | Hamilton Gault ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Hamilton ⓘ |
| militaryBranch |
Canadian Militia
ⓘ
linked to:
Canadian militia
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| militaryRank | officer ⓘ |
| notableFor | founding the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry ⓘ |
| occupation | businessman ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Canada ⓘ |
| positionHeld | militia officer ⓘ |
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: Hamilton Gault Description of subject: Hamilton Gault was a Canadian businessman and militia officer best known for raising and founding the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry at the outset of the First World War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Hamilton Gault