Ivo Stirling
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Ivo Stirling was a member of the Stirling family, known primarily as the brother of British World War II special forces pioneer David Stirling.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ivo Stirling canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10703442 — 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: Ivo Stirling Context triple: [David Stirling, sibling, Ivo Stirling]
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A.
Duncan Stewart
Duncan Stewart is a music producer best known for his work on U2’s album "Songs of Surrender."
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B.
Ewen MacIntosh
Ewen MacIntosh is a British actor and comedian best known for playing the deadpan accountant Keith Bishop in the original UK version of "The Office."
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C.
Tam Dalyell
Tam Dalyell was a long-serving Scottish Labour politician and Member of Parliament, best known for formulating the "West Lothian question" about devolution and parliamentary representation.
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D.
Alan McCulloch
Alan McCulloch is a relatively obscure individual about whom no widely known public information is available.
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E.
Duncan Campbell
Duncan Campbell is a British journalist and writer best known for his investigative reporting and his long-term marriage to actress Julie Christie.
- 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: Ivo Stirling Target entity description: Ivo Stirling was a member of the Stirling family, known primarily as the brother of British World War II special forces pioneer David Stirling.
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A.
Duncan Stewart
Duncan Stewart is a music producer best known for his work on U2’s album "Songs of Surrender."
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B.
Ewen MacIntosh
Ewen MacIntosh is a British actor and comedian best known for playing the deadpan accountant Keith Bishop in the original UK version of "The Office."
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C.
Tam Dalyell
Tam Dalyell was a long-serving Scottish Labour politician and Member of Parliament, best known for formulating the "West Lothian question" about devolution and parliamentary representation.
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D.
Alan McCulloch
Alan McCulloch is a relatively obscure individual about whom no widely known public information is available.
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E.
Duncan Campbell
Duncan Campbell is a British journalist and writer best known for his investigative reporting and his long-term marriage to actress Julie Christie.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
family
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName |
Stirling
ⓘ
Stirling ⓘ |
| givenName | Ivo ⓘ |
| memberOf | Stirling family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
founding the British World War II special forces unit Special Air Service (SAS)
ⓘ
linked to:
Special Air Service
|
| sibling |
David Stirling
ⓘ
Ivo Stirling ⓘ |
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: Ivo Stirling Description of subject: Ivo Stirling was a member of the Stirling family, known primarily as the brother of British World War II special forces pioneer David Stirling.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Ivo Stirling