Colin Mackenzie
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Colin Mackenzie was a British East India Company officer and surveyor known for his extensive mapping and antiquarian work in India, including serving as the first Surveyor General of India.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Colin Mackenzie canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1962779 — 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: Colin Mackenzie Context triple: [East India Company Military Seminary, Addiscombe, notableAlumni, Colin Mackenzie]
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A.
Richard Lumsden
Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
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B.
John Carr Munro
John Carr Munro was a Canadian politician who served as a longtime Member of Parliament from Hamilton, Ontario, and held several federal cabinet positions.
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C.
James Pattison Cockburn
James Pattison Cockburn was a 19th-century British army officer and topographical artist known for his detailed landscape drawings and watercolors, particularly of Canada and Europe.
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D.
Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer best known for designing and building numerous lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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E.
Alexander Kerr
Alexander Kerr is known primarily as the son of influential American academic and former University of California president Clark Kerr.
- 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: Colin Mackenzie Target entity description: Colin Mackenzie was a British East India Company officer and surveyor known for his extensive mapping and antiquarian work in India, including serving as the first Surveyor General of India.
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A.
Richard Lumsden
Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
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B.
John Carr Munro
John Carr Munro was a Canadian politician who served as a longtime Member of Parliament from Hamilton, Ontario, and held several federal cabinet positions.
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C.
James Pattison Cockburn
James Pattison Cockburn was a 19th-century British army officer and topographical artist known for his detailed landscape drawings and watercolors, particularly of Canada and Europe.
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D.
Robert Stevenson
Robert Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer best known for designing and building numerous lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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E.
Alexander Kerr
Alexander Kerr is known primarily as the son of influential American academic and former University of California president Clark Kerr.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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antiquarian ⓘ cartographer ⓘ person ⓘ surveyor ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1754-11-30 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Isle of Lewis
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Scotland ⓘ Stornoway ⓘ |
| collected |
Indian coins
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Indian inscriptions ⓘ Kannada manuscripts ⓘ Sanskrit manuscripts ⓘ Telugu manuscripts ⓘ maps and plans of Indian sites ⓘ |
| collectionHeldAt |
British Library
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Government Museum, Chennai ⓘ
surface form:
Government Oriental Manuscripts Library, Chennai
Indian Museum ⓘ
surface form:
Indian Museum, Kolkata
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1821-05-08 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Bengal Presidency
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British India ⓘ Calcutta ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Royal Military Academy, Woolwich ⓘ |
| employer | British East India Company ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
South Indian history
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historical geography ⓘ topographical surveying ⓘ |
| knownFor |
antiquarian surveys in India
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extensive mapping of South India ⓘ large collection of South Indian manuscripts and inscriptions ⓘ |
| militaryRank | colonel ⓘ |
| name | Colin Mackenzie self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
documentation of Vijayanagara ruins
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early archaeological documentation of Hampi ⓘ |
| notableWork | first systematic survey of southern India ⓘ |
| occupation |
antiquarian
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cartographer ⓘ military officer ⓘ surveyor ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
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Third Anglo-Mysore War ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Surveyor General of India ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
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surface form:
Presbyterianism
|
| serviceBranch |
British East India Company forces
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surface form:
British East India Company Army
Madras Army ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Madras Presidency
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Mysuru ⓘ
surface form:
Mysore
South India ⓘ |
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Subject: Colin Mackenzie Description of subject: Colin Mackenzie was a British East India Company officer and surveyor known for his extensive mapping and antiquarian work in India, including serving as the first Surveyor General of India.
Referenced by (4)
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