Paul McEwan
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Paul McEwan is a New Zealand former cricketer who played as a middle-order batsman for Canterbury and represented New Zealand in One Day Internationals in the early 1980s.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Paul McEwan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10865976 — 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: Paul McEwan Context triple: [McEwan, hasNotableBearer, Paul McEwan]
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A.
John McEwan
John McEwan is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the McEwan surname rather than broad public recognition.
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B.
Greg McEwan
Greg McEwan is a child of the acclaimed British novelist Ian McEwan.
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C.
Stephen Pycroft
Stephen Pycroft is a British businessman best known as the founder of the construction and consultancy company Mace Group.
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D.
Clive Egleton
Clive Egleton was a British author best known for his espionage and military thrillers, several of which were adapted for film and television.
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E.
Andrew Rennison
Andrew Rennison is a British public official known for serving as the inaugural Surveillance Camera Commissioner, overseeing the regulation and ethical use of CCTV and related surveillance technologies in the UK.
- 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: Paul McEwan Target entity description: Paul McEwan is a New Zealand former cricketer who played as a middle-order batsman for Canterbury and represented New Zealand in One Day Internationals in the early 1980s.
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A.
John McEwan
John McEwan is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinguishing feature is sharing the McEwan surname rather than broad public recognition.
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B.
Greg McEwan
Greg McEwan is a child of the acclaimed British novelist Ian McEwan.
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C.
Stephen Pycroft
Stephen Pycroft is a British businessman best known as the founder of the construction and consultancy company Mace Group.
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D.
Clive Egleton
Clive Egleton was a British author best known for his espionage and military thrillers, several of which were adapted for film and television.
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E.
Andrew Rennison
Andrew Rennison is a British public official known for serving as the inaugural Surveillance Camera Commissioner, overseeing the regulation and ethical use of CCTV and related surveillance technologies in the UK.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (16)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
cricketer
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human ⓘ |
| activePeriod | early 1980s ⓘ |
| battingStyle | right-handed batsman ⓘ |
| competitionClass | One Day International cricket NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | New Zealand ⓘ |
| domesticTeam | Canterbury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| internationalFormat | ODI ⓘ |
| notableFor | playing One Day Internationals for New Zealand in the early 1980s ⓘ |
| occupation | cricketer ⓘ |
| playedFor | Canterbury cricket team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| representedTeam | New Zealand national cricket team NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| role | middle-order batsman ⓘ |
| sport | cricket ⓘ |
| sportCountry | New Zealand 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: Paul McEwan Description of subject: Paul McEwan is a New Zealand former cricketer who played as a middle-order batsman for Canterbury and represented New Zealand in One Day Internationals in the early 1980s.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.