James Hogg
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James Hogg was a Scottish poet and novelist of the Romantic era, best known for works like "The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner."
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Hogg canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2551708 — 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 Hogg Context triple: [The New Monthly Magazine, notableContributor, James Hogg]
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Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet and literary figure of the early 19th century, best known for works like "The Pleasures of Hope" and for his influential role in British literary culture.
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B.
Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell was a Presbyterian minister and early 19th-century religious reformer best known as a founding leader of the Stone–Campbell Movement, which sought to restore New Testament Christianity and promote Christian unity.
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C.
Robert Burns Jr.
Robert Burns Jr. was the eldest son of the famed Scottish poet Robert Burns, known primarily for his familial connection rather than for notable achievements of his own.
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Robert Burns
Robert Burns was an 18th-century Scottish poet widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and a central figure in Scottish literature and culture.
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E.
William Irving
William Irving was the brother of famed American author Washington Irving and a member of the prominent Irving family of early 19th-century New York.
- 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 Hogg Target entity description: James Hogg was a Scottish poet and novelist of the Romantic era, best known for works like "The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner."
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A.
Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet and literary figure of the early 19th century, best known for works like "The Pleasures of Hope" and for his influential role in British literary culture.
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B.
Thomas Campbell
Thomas Campbell was a Presbyterian minister and early 19th-century religious reformer best known as a founding leader of the Stone–Campbell Movement, which sought to restore New Testament Christianity and promote Christian unity.
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C.
Robert Burns Jr.
Robert Burns Jr. was the eldest son of the famed Scottish poet Robert Burns, known primarily for his familial connection rather than for notable achievements of his own.
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D.
Robert Burns
Robert Burns was an 18th-century Scottish poet widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and a central figure in Scottish literature and culture.
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E.
William Irving
William Irving was the brother of famed American author Washington Irving and a member of the prominent Irving family of early 19th-century New York.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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 Hogg Description of subject: James Hogg was a Scottish poet and novelist of the Romantic era, best known for works like "The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner."
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.