William Adam
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William Adam was a prominent Scottish architect and master mason of the early 18th century, regarded as one of the leading figures in the development of Palladian architecture in Scotland.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Adam canonical | 99 |
| William Adam (architect) | 2 |
| William Adam (1689–1748) | 1 |
| William Adam (Scottish architect) | 1 |
| William Adam – patriarch and architect | 1 |
| William Adam, Scottish architect | 1 |
| works of William Adam | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T770260 — 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: William Adam Context triple: [Robert Adam, father, William Adam]
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A.
William Adam the Younger
William Adam the Younger was an 18th-century Scottish architect and member of the prominent Adam family of architects, known for contributing to the development of neoclassical architecture in Britain.
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B.
Archibald Leitch
Archibald Leitch was a pioneering Scottish architect renowned for designing many of the United Kingdom’s most iconic early 20th-century football stadiums.
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C.
William Kirkpatrick
William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
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D.
Robert Adam
Robert Adam was an influential 18th-century Scottish architect and designer whose elegant, highly decorative style helped define and popularize Neoclassical architecture in Britain and beyond.
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E.
James Adam
James Adam was an 18th-century Scottish neoclassical architect and designer, best known for collaborating with his more famous brother Robert Adam on influential architectural and interior design projects in Britain.
- 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: William Adam Target entity description: William Adam was a prominent Scottish architect and master mason of the early 18th century, regarded as one of the leading figures in the development of Palladian architecture in Scotland.
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A.
William Adam the Younger
William Adam the Younger was an 18th-century Scottish architect and member of the prominent Adam family of architects, known for contributing to the development of neoclassical architecture in Britain.
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B.
Archibald Leitch
Archibald Leitch was a pioneering Scottish architect renowned for designing many of the United Kingdom’s most iconic early 20th-century football stadiums.
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C.
William Kirkpatrick
William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
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D.
Robert Adam
Robert Adam was an influential 18th-century Scottish architect and designer whose elegant, highly decorative style helped define and popularize Neoclassical architecture in Britain and beyond.
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E.
James Adam
James Adam was an 18th-century Scottish neoclassical architect and designer, best known for collaborating with his more famous brother Robert Adam on influential architectural and interior design projects in Britain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (91)
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: William Adam Description of subject: William Adam was a prominent Scottish architect and master mason of the early 18th century, regarded as one of the leading figures in the development of Palladian architecture in Scotland.
Referenced by (106)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: William Adam
linked to: William Adam
linked to: William Adam
subject linked to:
The House of Dun
linked to: William Adam
linked to: William Adam
subject linked to:
The House of Milton (his own house)
subject linked to:
The House of Milton (his own house)