David Carnegie of Kinnaird
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David Carnegie of Kinnaird was a Scottish nobleman and landowner of the influential Carnegie family, associated with the Kinnaird estate in Angus.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Carnegie of Kinnaird canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2266733 — 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: David Carnegie of Kinnaird Context triple: [John Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk, father, David Carnegie of Kinnaird]
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Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird
Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird is a Scottish noble title historically associated with the Carnegie family and used as a subsidiary title by the Earls of Southesk.
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B.
James Carnegie of Balnamoon
James Carnegie of Balnamoon was an 18th-century Scottish Jacobite laird known for his support of the Stuart cause and his involvement in the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite rising.
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David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk
David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk, was a Scottish nobleman of the early 17th century who was elevated to the peerage under King James VI and I and became a prominent member of the Carnegie family.
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D.
John Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk
John Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who became a prominent figure in the peerage of Scotland and a leading member of the Carnegie family.
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E.
David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk
David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk, was a prominent Scottish nobleman of the early 17th century who rose to high rank and influence under King James VI and I.
- 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: David Carnegie of Kinnaird Target entity description: David Carnegie of Kinnaird was a Scottish nobleman and landowner of the influential Carnegie family, associated with the Kinnaird estate in Angus.
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A.
Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird
Lord Carnegie of Kinnaird is a Scottish noble title historically associated with the Carnegie family and used as a subsidiary title by the Earls of Southesk.
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B.
James Carnegie of Balnamoon
James Carnegie of Balnamoon was an 18th-century Scottish Jacobite laird known for his support of the Stuart cause and his involvement in the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite rising.
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C.
David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk
David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk, was a Scottish nobleman of the early 17th century who was elevated to the peerage under King James VI and I and became a prominent member of the Carnegie family.
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D.
John Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk
John Carnegie, 1st Earl of Northesk, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who became a prominent figure in the peerage of Scotland and a leading member of the Carnegie family.
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E.
David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk
David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk, was a prominent Scottish nobleman of the early 17th century who rose to high rank and influence under King James VI and I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish nobleman
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landowner ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| estateAssociatedWith | Kinnaird estate ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish people ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Angus ⓘ |
| memberOf | Carnegie family ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Carnegie family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
membership in the Carnegie family
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ownership of Kinnaird estate ⓘ |
| residence |
Angus
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Kinnaird ⓘ |
| titleHeld | Laird of Kinnaird ⓘ |
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: David Carnegie of Kinnaird Description of subject: David Carnegie of Kinnaird was a Scottish nobleman and landowner of the influential Carnegie family, associated with the Kinnaird estate in Angus.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.