Robertson James
E252362
Robertson James was a member of the prominent James family, known primarily as the brother of American psychologist and philosopher William James and diarist Alice James.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robertson James canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2285746 — 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: Robertson James Context triple: [Alice James, sibling, Robertson James]
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A.
Richard Hughes
Richard Hughes is a British economist and civil servant who serves as the head of the UK's independent fiscal watchdog, overseeing analysis of the government's public finances and economic forecasts.
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B.
Douglas Clifton Brown
Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
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C.
Campbell McInnes
Campbell McInnes is a film producer best known for his work on the political drama "Chappaquiddick," which explores the 1969 incident involving Senator Ted Kennedy.
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D.
William Campbell
William Campbell was an American Revolutionary War militia officer best known for leading patriot forces to victory at the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780.
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E.
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett was a prominent English novelist and playwright best known for his realistic depictions of provincial life in the Potteries during the early 20th century.
- 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: Robertson James Target entity description: Robertson James was a member of the prominent James family, known primarily as the brother of American psychologist and philosopher William James and diarist Alice James.
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A.
Richard Hughes
Richard Hughes is a British economist and civil servant who serves as the head of the UK's independent fiscal watchdog, overseeing analysis of the government's public finances and economic forecasts.
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B.
Douglas Clifton Brown
Douglas Clifton Brown was a British Conservative politician who served as Speaker of the House of Commons during the Second World War and the early postwar period.
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C.
Campbell McInnes
Campbell McInnes is a film producer best known for his work on the political drama "Chappaquiddick," which explores the 1969 incident involving Senator Ted Kennedy.
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D.
William Campbell
William Campbell was an American Revolutionary War militia officer best known for leading patriot forces to victory at the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780.
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E.
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett was a prominent English novelist and playwright best known for his realistic depictions of provincial life in the Potteries during the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| familyName | James ⓘ |
| givenName | Robertson ⓘ |
| memberOf |
James family
ⓘ
James family ⓘ James family ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMemberOf |
Alice James
ⓘ
William James ⓘ |
| sibling |
Alice James
ⓘ
Robertson James self-linksurface differs ⓘ Robertson James self-linksurface differs ⓘ William James ⓘ |
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: Robertson James Description of subject: Robertson James was a member of the prominent James family, known primarily as the brother of American psychologist and philosopher William James and diarist Alice James.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
William James
subject surface form:
Alice James