William Adam the Younger
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William Adam the Younger was an 18th-century Scottish architect and member of the prominent Adam family of architects, known for contributing to the development of neoclassical architecture in Britain.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Adam the Younger canonical | 4 |
| William Adam | 1 |
| William Adam (the younger) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T770259 — 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: William Adam the Younger Context triple: [Robert Adam, sibling, William Adam the Younger]
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A.
Robert Adam
Robert Adam was an influential 18th-century Scottish architect and designer whose elegant, highly decorative style helped define and popularize Neoclassical architecture in Britain and beyond.
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B.
James Adam
James Adam was an 18th-century Scottish neoclassical architect and designer, best known for collaborating with his more famous brother Robert Adam on influential architectural and interior design projects in Britain.
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C.
William Kirkpatrick
William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
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D.
Archibald Leitch
Archibald Leitch was a pioneering Scottish architect renowned for designing many of the United Kingdom’s most iconic early 20th-century football stadiums.
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E.
Alexander McDougall
Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
- 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: William Adam the Younger Target entity description: William Adam the Younger was an 18th-century Scottish architect and member of the prominent Adam family of architects, known for contributing to the development of neoclassical architecture in Britain.
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A.
Robert Adam
Robert Adam was an influential 18th-century Scottish architect and designer whose elegant, highly decorative style helped define and popularize Neoclassical architecture in Britain and beyond.
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B.
James Adam
James Adam was an 18th-century Scottish neoclassical architect and designer, best known for collaborating with his more famous brother Robert Adam on influential architectural and interior design projects in Britain.
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C.
William Kirkpatrick
William Kirkpatrick is a relatively obscure individual whose name is shared with multiple historical and contemporary figures across politics, military service, and public life.
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D.
Archibald Leitch
Archibald Leitch was a pioneering Scottish architect renowned for designing many of the United Kingdom’s most iconic early 20th-century football stadiums.
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E.
Alexander McDougall
Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish architect
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architect ⓘ human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| describedAs |
18th-century Scottish architect
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contributor to the development of neoclassical architecture in Britain ⓘ member of the prominent Adam family of architects ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scots ⓘ |
| familyName | Adam ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | architecture ⓘ |
| genre | neoclassical architecture ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | architect ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
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Scots ⓘ |
| memberOf | Adam family ⓘ |
| movement | Neoclassicism ⓘ |
| notableFamilyMember |
James Adam
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Robert Adam ⓘ William Adam ⓘ |
| notableWork | neoclassical architecture in Britain ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Great Britain
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surface form:
Britain
Scotland ⓘ |
| relative |
James Adam
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Robert Adam ⓘ William Adam ⓘ |
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: William Adam the Younger Description of subject: William Adam the Younger was an 18th-century Scottish architect and member of the prominent Adam family of architects, known for contributing to the development of neoclassical architecture in Britain.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
William Adam
this entity surface form:
William Adam (the younger)