3rd Earl of Queensberry
E1044192
The 3rd Earl of Queensberry was a Scottish nobleman of the Douglas family who held a prominent peerage title in 17th-century Scotland.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 3rd Earl of Queensberry canonical | 1 |
| 3rd Marquess of Queensberry | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12746693 — 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: 3rd Earl of Queensberry Context triple: [William Douglas, 3rd Earl of Queensberry, aristocraticTitleOrdinal, 3rd Earl of Queensberry]
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A.
Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry
Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and influential landowner known for his political roles and patronage within British high society.
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B.
James Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry
James Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, was an influential Scottish nobleman and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, known for his prominent roles in the government of Scotland and later Great Britain.
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C.
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, was a prominent late 17th- and early 18th-century Scottish nobleman and statesman who played a key role in the political negotiations leading to the 1707 Acts of Union between Scotland and England.
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D.
William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry
William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish nobleman and statesman who held high offices including Lord High Treasurer of Scotland and played a key role in the politics leading up to the 1707 Acts of Union.
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E.
William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry
William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and influential landowner known for his immense wealth, political roles, and colorful social life within British high society.
- 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: 3rd Earl of Queensberry Target entity description: The 3rd Earl of Queensberry was a Scottish nobleman of the Douglas family who held a prominent peerage title in 17th-century Scotland.
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A.
Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry
Charles Douglas, 3rd Duke of Queensberry, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and influential landowner known for his political roles and patronage within British high society.
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B.
James Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry
James Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, was an influential Scottish nobleman and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, known for his prominent roles in the government of Scotland and later Great Britain.
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C.
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, was a prominent late 17th- and early 18th-century Scottish nobleman and statesman who played a key role in the political negotiations leading to the 1707 Acts of Union between Scotland and England.
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D.
William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry
William Douglas, 1st Duke of Queensberry, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish nobleman and statesman who held high offices including Lord High Treasurer of Scotland and played a key role in the politics leading up to the 1707 Acts of Union.
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E.
William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry
William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and influential landowner known for his immense wealth, political roles, and colorful social life within British high society.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Earl
ⓘ
Scottish nobleman ⓘ member of the Scottish nobility ⓘ peer ⓘ |
| aristocraticHouse | Douglas ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
House of Douglas
ⓘ
linked to:
Clan Douglas
|
| category |
17th-century Scottish people
ⓘ
Members of the Douglas family ⓘ Scottish earls ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 17th century ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scots ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| governingSystemContext | feudal Scotland ⓘ |
| hasTitle | Lord of Parliament ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Early Modern period ⓘ |
| language |
Scots
ⓘ
Scottish English ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Douglas family ⓘ |
| nobleRank | Earl ⓘ |
| nobleTitleJurisdiction | Peerage of Scotland ⓘ |
| notableFor | holding the Queensberry earldom in the 17th century ⓘ |
| ordinalNumber | 3 ⓘ |
| peerageRank | Earl ⓘ |
| peerageTitleType | hereditary peerage ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Scottish peer ⓘ |
| precededBy | 2nd Earl of Queensberry ⓘ |
| region | Scotland ⓘ |
| socialClass | aristocracy ⓘ |
| succeededBy | 4th Earl of Queensberry ⓘ |
| territorialDesignation | Queensberry ⓘ |
| title | Earl of Queensberry ⓘ |
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: 3rd Earl of Queensberry Description of subject: The 3rd Earl of Queensberry was a Scottish nobleman of the Douglas family who held a prominent peerage title in 17th-century Scotland.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: 3rd Earl of Queensberry