Hugh Miller
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Hugh Miller was a 19th-century Scottish geologist, writer, and self-taught fossil collector renowned for his influential works on the geology and paleontology of Scotland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Hugh Miller canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T215474 — 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.
Target entity: Hugh Miller Context triple: [Old Red Sandstone, historicallyStudiedBy, Hugh Miller]
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William Smith
William Smith was an 18th-century American minister and the father of Abigail Adams, who became the second First Lady of the United States.
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley was a 19th-century English biologist and public intellectual known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his vigorous advocacy of evolutionary theory and his contributions to comparative anatomy and science education.
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James Hutton
James Hutton was an 18th-century Scottish geologist often called the "father of modern geology" for developing the theory of uniformitarianism and recognizing the immense age of the Earth.
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Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish geologist whose work on uniformitarianism and deep geological time profoundly shaped modern geology and influenced evolutionary thinkers.
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Robert Brown
Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist best known for his pioneering observations of the random motion of particles suspended in fluid, which led to the concept of Brownian motion.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Hugh Miller Target entity description: Hugh Miller was a 19th-century Scottish geologist, writer, and self-taught fossil collector renowned for his influential works on the geology and paleontology of Scotland.
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A.
William Smith
William Smith was an 18th-century American minister and the father of Abigail Adams, who became the second First Lady of the United States.
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B.
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley was a 19th-century English biologist and public intellectual known as “Darwin’s Bulldog” for his vigorous advocacy of evolutionary theory and his contributions to comparative anatomy and science education.
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C.
James Hutton
James Hutton was an 18th-century Scottish geologist often called the "father of modern geology" for developing the theory of uniformitarianism and recognizing the immense age of the Earth.
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D.
Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell was a pioneering 19th-century Scottish geologist whose work on uniformitarianism and deep geological time profoundly shaped modern geology and influenced evolutionary thinkers.
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E.
Robert Brown
Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist best known for his pioneering observations of the random motion of particles suspended in fluid, which led to the concept of Brownian motion.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish person
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fossil collector ⓘ geologist ⓘ human ⓘ paleontologist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | suicide ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1802-10-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1856-12-24 ⓘ |
| educatedAt | self-taught ⓘ |
| employer | The Witness ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Miller ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Christian apologetics
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geology ⓘ natural history ⓘ paleontology ⓘ |
| genre |
non-fiction
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religious literature ⓘ scientific literature ⓘ |
| givenName | Hugh ⓘ |
| hasCollectionAt | National Museum of Scotland ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Scots ⓘ |
| movement | Free Church of Scotland ⓘ |
| name | Hugh Miller self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
popularizing geology in 19th-century Scotland
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self-taught fossil collecting ⓘ writings reconciling geology and Christianity ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Footprints of the Creator
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Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland ⓘ Old Red Sandstone ⓘ
surface form:
The Old Red Sandstone
The Testimony of the Rocks ⓘ |
| occupation |
editor
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geologist ⓘ journalist ⓘ stonemason ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Cromarty
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Scotland ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial |
Edinburgh
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Grange Cemetery ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Edinburgh
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Portobello ⓘ Scotland ⓘ |
| positionHeld | editor of The Witness ⓘ |
| religion | Presbyterianism ⓘ |
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Subject: Hugh Miller Description of subject: Hugh Miller was a 19th-century Scottish geologist, writer, and self-taught fossil collector renowned for his influential works on the geology and paleontology of Scotland.
Referenced by (9)
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