James Scullin
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James Scullin was the ninth Prime Minister of Australia, leading a Labor government during the onset of the Great Depression from 1929 to 1932.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Scullin canonical | 2 |
| Australian Prime Minister James Scullin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7295464 — 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 Scullin Context triple: [Stanley Bruce, succeededBy, James Scullin]
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A.
Arthur Deakin
Arthur Deakin was a prominent British trade union leader who played a key role in shaping mid-20th-century labor relations in the United Kingdom.
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B.
Thomas Blamey
Thomas Blamey was an Australian general who became the country’s first and only field marshal and played a leading role in Allied operations in the Pacific during World War II.
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C.
Edmund Barton
Edmund Barton was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a key architect of Australian Federation.
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D.
John Eager Howard
John Eager Howard was an American Revolutionary War officer, politician, and Governor of Maryland renowned for his military leadership and public service in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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E.
Stanley Bruce
Stanley Bruce was an Australian statesman who served as Prime Minister in the 1920s and played a key role in redefining the constitutional relationship between Britain and its Dominions.
- 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 Scullin Target entity description: James Scullin was the ninth Prime Minister of Australia, leading a Labor government during the onset of the Great Depression from 1929 to 1932.
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A.
Arthur Deakin
Arthur Deakin was a prominent British trade union leader who played a key role in shaping mid-20th-century labor relations in the United Kingdom.
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B.
Thomas Blamey
Thomas Blamey was an Australian general who became the country’s first and only field marshal and played a leading role in Allied operations in the Pacific during World War II.
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C.
Edmund Barton
Edmund Barton was the first Prime Minister of Australia and a key architect of Australian Federation.
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D.
John Eager Howard
John Eager Howard was an American Revolutionary War officer, politician, and Governor of Maryland renowned for his military leadership and public service in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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E.
Stanley Bruce
Stanley Bruce was an Australian statesman who served as Prime Minister in the 1920s and played a key role in redefining the constitutional relationship between Britain and its Dominions.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Australian politician
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Prime Minister of Australia ⓘ human ⓘ member of the Australian Labor Party ⓘ |
| appointed | Sir Isaac Isaacs as Governor-General of Australia ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Melbourne General Cemetery NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | cardiovascular disease ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Australia ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1876-09-18 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1953-01-28 ⓘ |
| electedIn | 1929 Australian federal election ⓘ |
| electoralDivisionRepresented | Yarra NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| endTime | 1932-01-06 ⓘ |
| endTimeForElectorateYarra | 1949 ⓘ |
| era | interwar period ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Irish Australian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Scullin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| headOfGovernmentOf | Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honouredIn | Division of Scullin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| implementedPolicy | Premiers' Plan (support and acceptance) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
defeat of the Bruce–Page government in 1929 election
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leading a Labor government during the onset of the Great Depression ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty | Australian Labor Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| monarchDuringTerm | George V NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| namedAfter | Division of Scullin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | 1931 Australian financial crisis ⓘ |
| notableWork | Leadership of Australia during the onset of the Great Depression ⓘ |
| occupation |
journalist
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politician ⓘ shopkeeper ⓘ |
| orderInOffice | 9th Prime Minister of Australia ⓘ |
| parliamentaryBody | Australian House of Representatives NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Trawalla, Victoria, Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Leader of the Australian Labor Party
NERFINISHED
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Leader of the Opposition (Australia) NERFINISHED ⓘ Prime Minister of Australia ⓘ Treasurer of Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Stanley Bruce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| spouse | Sarah McNamara NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| startTime | 1929-10-22 ⓘ |
| startTimeForElectorateYarra | 1910 ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Joseph Lyons NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation | Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: James Scullin Description of subject: James Scullin was the ninth Prime Minister of Australia, leading a Labor government during the onset of the Great Depression from 1929 to 1932.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Australian Prime Minister James Scullin