James Craig
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James Craig was an 18th-century Scottish architect best known for planning Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town, a landmark of urban design.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Craig canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11619192 — 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: James Craig Context triple: [New Town, Edinburgh, designedBy, James Craig]
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A.
James Craig
James Craig was a prominent Northern Irish politician who became the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and a leading figure in the unionist movement.
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B.
James Craig
James Craig was an American film actor active primarily in the 1940s and 1950s, known for his leading-man roles in Hollywood studio productions.
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C.
John Hamilton
John Hamilton is a common personal name shared by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, military service, and the arts.
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D.
George Blair
George Blair was an early American settler and landowner credited with establishing the city of Belleville, Illinois.
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E.
John Hutton
John Hutton is a British Labour politician who held several senior cabinet posts, including roles overseeing business and economic policy, during the 2000s.
- 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: James Craig Target entity description: James Craig was an 18th-century Scottish architect best known for planning Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town, a landmark of urban design.
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A.
James Craig
James Craig was a prominent Northern Irish politician who became the first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and a leading figure in the unionist movement.
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B.
James Craig
James Craig was an American film actor active primarily in the 1940s and 1950s, known for his leading-man roles in Hollywood studio productions.
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C.
John Hamilton
John Hamilton is a common personal name shared by various notable individuals across fields such as politics, military service, and the arts.
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D.
George Blair
George Blair was an early American settler and landowner credited with establishing the city of Belleville, Illinois.
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E.
John Hutton
John Hutton is a British Labour politician who held several senior cabinet posts, including roles overseeing business and economic policy, during the 2000s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish architect
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architect ⓘ human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfBirth | Scotland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| countryOfDeath | Scotland ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1739-10-31 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1795-06-23 ⓘ |
| designed |
street plan of Edinburgh New Town
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urban layout of Edinburgh New Town ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish people ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
architecture
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urban planning ⓘ |
| genre |
city planning
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urban design ⓘ |
| influenced | urban development of Edinburgh ⓘ |
| knownFor |
planning Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town
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urban design of Edinburgh New Town ⓘ |
| movement | Georgian architecture ⓘ |
| name | James Craig ⓘ |
| notableAchievement | winning competition to design Edinburgh New Town ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Edinburgh New Town
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linked to:
New Town, Edinburgh
plan for Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town ⓘ |
| occupation | architect ⓘ |
| partOf |
history of Edinburgh
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history of Scottish architecture ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| residence | Edinburgh ⓘ |
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: James Craig Description of subject: James Craig was an 18th-century Scottish architect best known for planning Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town, a landmark of urban design.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.