Alexander Kincaid
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Alexander Kincaid was an 18th-century Edinburgh printer and publisher who served as the King's Printer in Scotland and later became Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alexander Kincaid canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7279820 — 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: Alexander Kincaid Context triple: [Alexander Kincaid and J. Bell, hasPart, Alexander Kincaid]
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A.
Alexander Knox
Alexander Knox was a Canadian actor and writer best known for his Academy Award–nominated portrayal of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in the 1944 film "Wilson."
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B.
Alexander Caldwell
Alexander Caldwell was a notable figure significant enough in American regional history that the city of Caldwell, Idaho, was named in his honor.
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C.
Alexander McSween
Alexander McSween was a prominent 19th-century lawyer and central figure in the Lincoln County War in New Mexico, whose activities helped shape the history commemorated in the Lincoln Historic District.
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D.
George Baird
George Baird is a Canadian architect, educator, and theorist known for his influential writings on urbanism and architectural culture.
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E.
Joseph Hardin
Joseph Hardin was an American Revolutionary War officer and early frontier leader whose legacy is commemorated in several place names in the southeastern United States.
- 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: Alexander Kincaid Target entity description: Alexander Kincaid was an 18th-century Edinburgh printer and publisher who served as the King's Printer in Scotland and later became Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
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A.
Alexander Knox
Alexander Knox was a Canadian actor and writer best known for his Academy Award–nominated portrayal of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson in the 1944 film "Wilson."
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B.
Alexander Caldwell
Alexander Caldwell was a notable figure significant enough in American regional history that the city of Caldwell, Idaho, was named in his honor.
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C.
Alexander McSween
Alexander McSween was a prominent 19th-century lawyer and central figure in the Lincoln County War in New Mexico, whose activities helped shape the history commemorated in the Lincoln Historic District.
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D.
George Baird
George Baird is a Canadian architect, educator, and theorist known for his influential writings on urbanism and architectural culture.
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E.
Joseph Hardin
Joseph Hardin was an American Revolutionary War officer and early frontier leader whose legacy is commemorated in several place names in the southeastern United States.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
person
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politician ⓘ printer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Edinburgh Town Council
NERFINISHED
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Scottish book trade NERFINISHED ⓘ royal printing privileges in Scotland ⓘ |
| basedIn | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Scotland ⓘ |
| employer | City of Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
book trade
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municipal administration ⓘ typography ⓘ |
| genre |
legal texts
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official publications ⓘ religious texts ⓘ |
| industry |
printing
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publishing ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Scots ⓘ |
| notableFor |
holding the royal patent as King's Printer in Scotland
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serving as Lord Provost of Edinburgh ⓘ |
| notableRole |
leading Edinburgh printer in the 18th century
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municipal leader of Edinburgh ⓘ |
| notableWork |
printing of Bibles in Scotland
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printing of legal and official documents in Scotland ⓘ |
| occupation |
bookseller
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politician ⓘ printer ⓘ publisher ⓘ |
| partOf | Edinburgh civic government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Bailie of Edinburgh
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Councillor of Edinburgh ⓘ King's Printer in Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ Lord Provost of Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ Treasurer of Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
King's Printer in Scotland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lord Provost of Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Alexander Kincaid Description of subject: Alexander Kincaid was an 18th-century Edinburgh printer and publisher who served as the King's Printer in Scotland and later became Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.