Sir James Paget
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Sir James Paget was a prominent 19th-century English surgeon and pathologist, renowned as one of the founders of modern pathology and for describing several medical conditions that bear his name.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sir James Paget canonical | 2 |
| James Paget | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2983351 — 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: Sir James Paget Context triple: [Mount Paget, namedAfter, Sir James Paget]
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A.
Alfred Paget
Alfred Paget was a British silent film actor known for his numerous roles in early 20th-century cinema, often appearing in D.W. Griffith productions.
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B.
Joseph Jackson Lister
Joseph Jackson Lister was a pioneering 19th-century English amateur scientist and wine merchant whose improvements to the optical microscope significantly advanced the field of microscopy.
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C.
Edward Darley Boit
Edward Darley Boit was a 19th-century American lawyer and art collector best known today as the father of the four girls depicted in John Singer Sargent’s famous painting "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit."
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D.
General Sir Bernard Paget
General Sir Bernard Paget was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War, known for his high-level command roles in the Middle East and later as Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces.
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E.
Harvey Cheyne
Harvey Cheyne is the spoiled millionaire’s son who is transformed by hard work and life at sea in the adventure story "Captains Courageous."
- 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: Sir James Paget Target entity description: Sir James Paget was a prominent 19th-century English surgeon and pathologist, renowned as one of the founders of modern pathology and for describing several medical conditions that bear his name.
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A.
Alfred Paget
Alfred Paget was a British silent film actor known for his numerous roles in early 20th-century cinema, often appearing in D.W. Griffith productions.
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B.
Joseph Jackson Lister
Joseph Jackson Lister was a pioneering 19th-century English amateur scientist and wine merchant whose improvements to the optical microscope significantly advanced the field of microscopy.
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C.
Edward Darley Boit
Edward Darley Boit was a 19th-century American lawyer and art collector best known today as the father of the four girls depicted in John Singer Sargent’s famous painting "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit."
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D.
General Sir Bernard Paget
General Sir Bernard Paget was a senior British Army officer of the Second World War, known for his high-level command roles in the Middle East and later as Commander-in-Chief, Home Forces.
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E.
Harvey Cheyne
Harvey Cheyne is the spoiled millionaire’s son who is transformed by hard work and life at sea in the adventure story "Captains Courageous."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Fellow of the Royal Society
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baronet ⓘ human ⓘ medical scientist ⓘ pathologist ⓘ surgeon ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
England
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1814-01-11 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1899-12-30 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College
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surface form:
St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College
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| employer |
St Bartholomew’s Hospital complex
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surface form:
St Bartholomew's Hospital
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| eponymOf |
carbuncle
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surface form:
Paget's abscess
Paget's disease of bone ⓘ Paget's disease of the breast ⓘ Paget–Schroetter syndrome ⓘ Sir James Paget Hospital ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Paget ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
oncology
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orthopaedics ⓘ pathology ⓘ surgery ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| hasRelative |
George Edward Paget
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Stephen Paget ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Royal College of Surgeons of England ⓘ |
| name | Sir James Paget self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being one of the founders of modern pathology
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clinical–pathological correlation in surgery ⓘ |
| notableWork |
description of Paget's abscess
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description of Paget's disease of bone ⓘ description of Paget's disease of the breast ⓘ description of Paget–Schroetter syndrome ⓘ |
| occupation |
medical educator
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pathologist ⓘ surgeon ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
England
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Great Yarmouth ⓘ Norfolk ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
England
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London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
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| positionHeld |
Sergeant-Surgeon to Queen Victoria
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Vice President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| title | 1st Baronet Paget ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London, England
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surface form:
London
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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: Sir James Paget Description of subject: Sir James Paget was a prominent 19th-century English surgeon and pathologist, renowned as one of the founders of modern pathology and for describing several medical conditions that bear his name.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
James Paget