Lord Hope of Craighead

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Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom Scottish jurist judge law lord life peer member of the House of Lords person

Lord Hope of Craighead is a prominent Scottish jurist who served as a senior Law Lord and later as one of the leading justices on the newly established Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Lord Hope of Craighead canonical	4
Baron Hope of Craighead	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2110583 — 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 Hope of Craighead
Context triple: [Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, officeHoldersInclude, Lord Hope of Craighead]

A. Lord Burnett of Maldon
Lord Burnett of Maldon is a senior British judge who serves as the head of the judiciary and president of the courts of England and Wales.
B. Lord Browne of Madingley
Lord Browne of Madingley is a British businessman and former chief executive of BP, noted for his influential role in the global energy industry and public service in engineering and education.
C. Lord Stanley of Preston
Lord Stanley of Preston was a late 19th-century Governor General of Canada best known for donating the trophy that became the Stanley Cup, the championship prize of professional ice hockey.
D. Lord Scott of Foscote
Lord Scott of Foscote is a British jurist and former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary who served as a senior judge in the House of Lords.
E. Lord Saville of Newdigate
Lord Saville of Newdigate is a British judge best known for chairing the Bloody Sunday Inquiry into the 1972 shootings in Northern Ireland.
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 Hope of Craighead
Target entity description: Lord Hope of Craighead is a prominent Scottish jurist who served as a senior Law Lord and later as one of the leading justices on the newly established Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.

A. Lord Burnett of Maldon
Lord Burnett of Maldon is a senior British judge who serves as the head of the judiciary and president of the courts of England and Wales.
B. Lord Browne of Madingley
Lord Browne of Madingley is a British businessman and former chief executive of BP, noted for his influential role in the global energy industry and public service in engineering and education.
C. Lord Stanley of Preston
Lord Stanley of Preston was a late 19th-century Governor General of Canada best known for donating the trophy that became the Stanley Cup, the championship prize of professional ice hockey.
D. Lord Scott of Foscote
Lord Scott of Foscote is a British jurist and former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary who served as a senior judge in the House of Lords.
E. Lord Saville of Newdigate
Lord Saville of Newdigate is a British judge best known for chairing the Bloody Sunday Inquiry into the 1972 shootings in Northern Ireland.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ⓘ Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ⓘ Scottish jurist ⓘ judge ⓘ law lord ⓘ life peer ⓘ member of the House of Lords ⓘ person ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	Scotland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ surface form: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
educatedAt	Edinburgh Academy ⓘ St John’s College, Cambridge ⓘ surface form: St John's College, Cambridge University of Edinburgh ⓘ
familyName	Hope ⓘ
fieldOfWork	Scottish law ⓘ constitutional law ⓘ human rights law ⓘ law ⓘ
fullName	James Arthur David Hope ⓘ
givenName	David ⓘ James ⓘ
honorificPrefix	The Rt Hon ⓘ
jurisdiction	Scotland ⓘ United Kingdom ⓘ
language	English ⓘ Scots law terminology ⓘ
memberOf	Faculty of Advocates ⓘ House of Lords ⓘ Privy Council ⓘ surface form: Privy Council of the United Kingdom King's Counsel ⓘ surface form: The Queen's Counsel
nationality	Scottish ⓘ
nobleTitle	Lord Hope of Craighead self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Baron Hope of Craighead
notableFor	contributions to UK constitutional jurisprudence ⓘ leading judgments on devolution issues ⓘ leading judgments on human rights cases ⓘ serving as Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ⓘ serving as a senior Law Lord ⓘ
occupation	barrister ⓘ judge ⓘ jurist ⓘ
positionHeld	Dean of the Faculty of Advocates ⓘ Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ⓘ Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ⓘ Lord Justice General ⓘ surface form: Lord Justice General of Scotland Lord President of the Court of Session ⓘ Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ⓘ Queen's Counsel ⓘ Lord of Appeal in Ordinary ⓘ surface form: Second Senior Lord of Appeal in Ordinary

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom → officeHoldersInclude → Lord Hope of Craighead ⓘ

Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom → firstHolder → Lord Hope of Craighead ⓘ

R (Jackson) v Attorney General → hasJudge → Lord Hope of Craighead ⓘ

R (Jackson) v Attorney General → includesDictumBy → Lord Hope of Craighead ⓘ

Lord Hope of Craighead → nobleTitle → Lord Hope of Craighead self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Baron Hope of Craighead

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