Alasdair MacRobert
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Alasdair MacRobert is a notable member of the Scottish MacRobert family, recognized for his role in the family's distinguished public and philanthropic legacy.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alasdair MacRobert canonical | 2 |
| Iain MacRobert | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9742853 — 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: Alasdair MacRobert Context triple: [MacRobert family, hasNotableMember, Alasdair MacRobert]
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A.
Alasdair MacLeod
Alasdair MacLeod is a Scottish businessman known for his marriage to media executive Prudence Murdoch, daughter of Rupert Murdoch.
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B.
Alasdair Roberts
Alasdair Roberts is a Scottish folk musician and singer-songwriter known for his intricate guitar work, traditional balladry, and releases on independent labels such as Drag City.
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C.
Alasdair Walker
Alasdair Walker is a cinematographer best known for his work on the romantic comedy film "The Decoy Bride."
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D.
Angus Imrie
Angus Imrie is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and radio, including roles in "The Archers" and "The Kid Who Would Be King."
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E.
Ian McNeice
Ian McNeice is a British character actor known for his distinctive presence in film and television, including roles in "Rome," "Doc Martin," and various science fiction and historical dramas.
- 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: Alasdair MacRobert Target entity description: Alasdair MacRobert is a notable member of the Scottish MacRobert family, recognized for his role in the family's distinguished public and philanthropic legacy.
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A.
Alasdair MacLeod
Alasdair MacLeod is a Scottish businessman known for his marriage to media executive Prudence Murdoch, daughter of Rupert Murdoch.
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B.
Alasdair Roberts
Alasdair Roberts is a Scottish folk musician and singer-songwriter known for his intricate guitar work, traditional balladry, and releases on independent labels such as Drag City.
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C.
Alasdair Walker
Alasdair Walker is a cinematographer best known for his work on the romantic comedy film "The Decoy Bride."
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D.
Angus Imrie
Angus Imrie is a British actor known for his work in film, television, and radio, including roles in "The Archers" and "The Kid Who Would Be King."
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E.
Ian McNeice
Ian McNeice is a British character actor known for his distinctive presence in film and television, including roles in "Rome," "Doc Martin," and various science fiction and historical dramas.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | MacRobert ⓘ |
| givenName | Alasdair ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | Scottish MacRobert family philanthropic legacy ⓘ |
| memberOf | MacRobert family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
philanthropy
ⓘ
public service ⓘ |
| partOf | MacRobert family public and philanthropic legacy ⓘ |
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: Alasdair MacRobert Description of subject: Alasdair MacRobert is a notable member of the Scottish MacRobert family, recognized for his role in the family's distinguished public and philanthropic legacy.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alasdair MacRobert