Donald Stewart
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Donald Stewart was a British Indian Army general who played a prominent leadership role in the late 19th-century campaigns on the Northwest Frontier, including the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Donald Stewart canonical | 1 |
| Donald William Stewart | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2046709 — 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: Donald Stewart Context triple: [Second Anglo-Afghan War, commander, Donald Stewart]
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A.
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
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B.
Duncan Stewart
Duncan Stewart is a music producer best known for his work on U2’s album "Songs of Surrender."
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C.
Alan Stewart
Alan Stewart is a cinematographer known for his work on major feature films, including collaborations with director Guy Ritchie.
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D.
Alastair Stewart
Alastair Stewart is a British journalist and long-serving television news presenter best known for his work with ITN and ITV News.
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E.
Stephen McHattie
Stephen McHattie is a Canadian actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, including his appearance in the superhero film "Watchmen."
- 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: Donald Stewart Target entity description: Donald Stewart was a British Indian Army general who played a prominent leadership role in the late 19th-century campaigns on the Northwest Frontier, including the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
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A.
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
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B.
Duncan Stewart
Duncan Stewart is a music producer best known for his work on U2’s album "Songs of Surrender."
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C.
Alan Stewart
Alan Stewart is a cinematographer known for his work on major feature films, including collaborations with director Guy Ritchie.
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D.
Alastair Stewart
Alastair Stewart is a British journalist and long-serving television news presenter best known for his work with ITN and ITV News.
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E.
Stephen McHattie
Stephen McHattie is a Canadian actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, including his appearance in the superhero film "Watchmen."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
ⓘ
Indian Army general ⓘ human ⓘ military leader ⓘ |
| areaOfWork | British India ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| conflict |
Second Anglo-Afghan War
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late 19th-century Northwest Frontier campaigns ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Stewart ⓘ |
| givenName | Donald ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Indian Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| militaryTheater |
Afghanistan
ⓘ
North-West Frontier region ⓘ
surface form:
Northwest Frontier
|
| name | Donald Stewart ⓘ |
| notability | prominent leadership role in British Indian frontier warfare ⓘ |
| notableWork |
command in the Second Anglo-Afghan War
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leadership in late 19th-century Northwest Frontier campaigns ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
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soldier ⓘ |
| partOf |
British Indian Army
ⓘ
surface form:
British Indian Army officer corps
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| positionHeld | general in the British Indian Army ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity |
North-West Frontier region
ⓘ
surface form:
Northwest Frontier of British India
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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: Donald Stewart Description of subject: Donald Stewart was a British Indian Army general who played a prominent leadership role in the late 19th-century campaigns on the Northwest Frontier, including the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Donald William Stewart