Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore
E171455
British jurist
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland
human
law lord
Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore is a British jurist who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and previously as Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore canonical | 2 |
| Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore | 1 |
| Lord Kerr | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1424786 — 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: Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore Context triple: [Trinity Hall, Cambridge, hasAlumni, Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore]
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A.
Lord Irvine of Lairg
Lord Irvine of Lairg is a British Labour politician and barrister who served as Lord Chancellor under Prime Minister Tony Blair and played a key role in major constitutional reforms in the late 1990s.
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B.
Lord McFall of Alcluith
Lord McFall of Alcluith is a British Labour politician and life peer who serves as the Lord Speaker, the presiding officer of the UK House of Lords.
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C.
Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife
Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife, was a Scottish nobleman who became the first Duke of Fife and gained prominence through his marriage to Princess Louise, the eldest daughter of King Edward VII.
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D.
William Whitelaw
William Whitelaw was a prominent British Conservative politician and close ally of Margaret Thatcher who served in several senior Cabinet roles, including Deputy Prime Minister.
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E.
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.
- 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: Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore Target entity description: Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore is a British jurist who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and previously as Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.
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A.
Lord Irvine of Lairg
Lord Irvine of Lairg is a British Labour politician and barrister who served as Lord Chancellor under Prime Minister Tony Blair and played a key role in major constitutional reforms in the late 1990s.
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B.
Lord McFall of Alcluith
Lord McFall of Alcluith is a British Labour politician and life peer who serves as the Lord Speaker, the presiding officer of the UK House of Lords.
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C.
Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife
Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife, was a Scottish nobleman who became the first Duke of Fife and gained prominence through his marriage to Princess Louise, the eldest daughter of King Edward VII.
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D.
William Whitelaw
William Whitelaw was a prominent British Conservative politician and close ally of Margaret Thatcher who served in several senior Cabinet roles, including Deputy Prime Minister.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British jurist
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Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ⓘ Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland ⓘ human ⓘ law lord ⓘ |
| appointedBy | Elizabeth II ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Ireland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Inns of Court
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surface form:
Inns of Court School of Law
Queen’s University Belfast ⓘ
surface form:
Queen's University Belfast
St Colman's College, Newry ⓘ |
| familyName | Kerr ⓘ |
| givenName | Brian ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | The Right Honourable ⓘ |
| jurisdiction |
Northern Ireland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| legalSystem | common law ⓘ |
| memberOf |
House of Lords
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Privy Council ⓘ
surface form:
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore
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| notableFor |
contributions to UK constitutional and human rights law
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service as Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ⓘ service as Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland ⓘ |
| occupation |
barrister
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judge ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Judge of the High Court of Justice in Northern Ireland
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Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ⓘ Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland ⓘ Lord Justice of Appeal in Northern Ireland ⓘ Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ⓘ |
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: Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore Description of subject: Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore is a British jurist who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and previously as Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore
R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union
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majorityOpinionBy
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Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore
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this entity surface form:
Lord Kerr