John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe
E1023463
John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe, was a prominent early 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who played a key role in the government around the time of the Acts of Union between Scotland and England.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Duke of Roxburghe | 3 |
| John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe canonical | 1 |
| John Ker, 5th Earl of Roxburghe | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12616349 — 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: John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe Context triple: [Secretary of State of Scotland, positionHeldBy, John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe]
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A.
James Livingston, 1st Earl of Callendar
James Livingston, 1st Earl of Callendar, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and military commander who played a prominent role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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B.
James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose
James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose, was a prominent early 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who held high office under the British crown and was influential in the politics of the Acts of Union between Scotland and England.
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C.
John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who played a significant role in the turbulent Jacobite and Union-era politics of Scotland.
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D.
John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair
John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, was a prominent Scottish soldier, diplomat, and statesman who served as a senior British commander during the War of the Austrian Succession.
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E.
3rd Duke of Fife
The 3rd Duke of Fife, James Carnegie, was a 20th-century Scottish peer and landowner who held a senior ducal title in the British aristocracy.
- 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: John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe Target entity description: John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe, was a prominent early 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who played a key role in the government around the time of the Acts of Union between Scotland and England.
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A.
James Livingston, 1st Earl of Callendar
James Livingston, 1st Earl of Callendar, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and military commander who played a prominent role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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B.
James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose
James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose, was a prominent early 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who held high office under the British crown and was influential in the politics of the Acts of Union between Scotland and England.
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C.
John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who played a significant role in the turbulent Jacobite and Union-era politics of Scotland.
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D.
John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair
John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, was a prominent Scottish soldier, diplomat, and statesman who served as a senior British commander during the War of the Austrian Succession.
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E.
3rd Duke of Fife
The 3rd Duke of Fife, James Carnegie, was a 20th-century Scottish peer and landowner who held a senior ducal title in the British aristocracy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe Description of subject: John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe, was a prominent early 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who played a key role in the government around the time of the Acts of Union between Scotland and England.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe
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linked to: John Ker, 1st Duke of Roxburghe