John Macleod
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John Macleod was a 19th-century British legal figure who served on the pioneering First Law Commission for India, helping to shape the early codification of colonial Indian law.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Macleod canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10839350 — 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: John Macleod Context triple: [First Law Commission for India, member, John Macleod]
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A.
John James Rickard Macleod
John James Rickard Macleod was a Scottish physiologist and Nobel Prize–winning co-discoverer of insulin whose work fundamentally transformed the treatment of diabetes.
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B.
Charles Best
Charles Best was a Canadian physiologist best known for co-discovering insulin alongside Frederick Banting, a breakthrough that revolutionized the treatment of diabetes.
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C.
Alexander Cowper Hutchison
Alexander Cowper Hutchison was a prominent 19th-century Canadian architect known for designing significant public and institutional buildings in Montreal.
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D.
Frederick Banting
Frederick Banting was a Canadian medical scientist and physician best known for co-discovering insulin, a breakthrough that revolutionized the treatment of diabetes and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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E.
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering essential nutrients later known as vitamins and for pioneering the field of nutritional biochemistry.
- 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: John Macleod Target entity description: John Macleod was a 19th-century British legal figure who served on the pioneering First Law Commission for India, helping to shape the early codification of colonial Indian law.
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A.
John James Rickard Macleod
John James Rickard Macleod was a Scottish physiologist and Nobel Prize–winning co-discoverer of insulin whose work fundamentally transformed the treatment of diabetes.
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B.
Charles Best
Charles Best was a Canadian physiologist best known for co-discovering insulin alongside Frederick Banting, a breakthrough that revolutionized the treatment of diabetes.
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C.
Alexander Cowper Hutchison
Alexander Cowper Hutchison was a prominent 19th-century Canadian architect known for designing significant public and institutional buildings in Montreal.
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D.
Frederick Banting
Frederick Banting was a Canadian medical scientist and physician best known for co-discovering insulin, a breakthrough that revolutionized the treatment of diabetes and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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E.
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering essential nutrients later known as vitamins and for pioneering the field of nutritional biochemistry.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British legal figure
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law commission ⓘ person ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 19th century ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | British India ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | British ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
colonial law
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law ⓘ legal codification ⓘ |
| mainSubject | codification of Indian law ⓘ |
| memberOf | First Law Commission for India ⓘ |
| notableFor | helping to shape early codification of colonial Indian law ⓘ |
| notableWork | early codification of colonial Indian law ⓘ |
| occupation | lawyer ⓘ |
| participatedIn | First Law Commission for India ⓘ |
| positionHeld | member of the First Law Commission for India ⓘ |
| workLocation |
India
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
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
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Input
Subject: John Macleod Description of subject: John Macleod was a 19th-century British legal figure who served on the pioneering First Law Commission for India, helping to shape the early codification of colonial Indian law.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.