Walter Forbes, 19th Lord Forbes
E480184
Walter Forbes, 19th Lord Forbes, was a Scottish peer who held the premier lordship of Scotland as head of the historic Forbes family in the 19th century.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 19th Lord Forbes | 1 |
| Walter Forbes, 19th Lord Forbes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4836869 — 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: Walter Forbes, 19th Lord Forbes Context triple: [Forbes family, notableMember, Walter Forbes, 19th Lord Forbes]
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A.
James Forbes, 17th Lord Forbes
James Forbes, 17th Lord Forbes, was a Scottish nobleman and peer who held the chiefship of Clan Forbes in the 18th century.
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B.
Alexander Forbes, 1st Lord Forbes
Alexander Forbes, 1st Lord Forbes, was a 15th-century Scottish nobleman and soldier who became the first peer of the influential Forbes family and played a prominent role in the politics and warfare of his time.
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C.
William Murray, Marquess of Tullibardine
William Murray, Marquess of Tullibardine, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and Jacobite leader who played a key role in multiple uprisings to restore the Stuart monarchy.
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D.
Lord Gordon of Haddo
Lord Gordon of Haddo is a courtesy title historically used by the heir apparent to the Earl of Aberdeen in the Scottish peerage.
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E.
Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch
Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and landowner whose early death led to his daughter Anne Scott becoming a prominent duchess in her own right.
- 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: Walter Forbes, 19th Lord Forbes Target entity description: Walter Forbes, 19th Lord Forbes, was a Scottish peer who held the premier lordship of Scotland as head of the historic Forbes family in the 19th century.
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A.
James Forbes, 17th Lord Forbes
James Forbes, 17th Lord Forbes, was a Scottish nobleman and peer who held the chiefship of Clan Forbes in the 18th century.
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B.
Alexander Forbes, 1st Lord Forbes
Alexander Forbes, 1st Lord Forbes, was a 15th-century Scottish nobleman and soldier who became the first peer of the influential Forbes family and played a prominent role in the politics and warfare of his time.
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C.
William Murray, Marquess of Tullibardine
William Murray, Marquess of Tullibardine, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and Jacobite leader who played a key role in multiple uprisings to restore the Stuart monarchy.
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D.
Lord Gordon of Haddo
Lord Gordon of Haddo is a courtesy title historically used by the heir apparent to the Earl of Aberdeen in the Scottish peerage.
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E.
Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch
Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and landowner whose early death led to his daughter Anne Scott becoming a prominent duchess in her own right.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (22)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Lord of Parliament
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Scottish peer ⓘ member of the Scottish nobility ⓘ nobleman ⓘ |
| centuryActive | 19th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Forbes ⓘ |
| hasHereditaryTitle | yes ⓘ |
| headOf |
Clan Forbes
ⓘ
Forbes family ⓘ |
| holdsTitle | premier lordship of Scotland ⓘ |
| isSubjectOf |
Scottish peerage records
ⓘ
histories of Clan Forbes ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Clan Forbes ⓘ |
| nobleRank | Lord of Parliament in the Peerage of Scotland ⓘ |
| peerage | Peerage of Scotland ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
19th Lord Forbes
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linked to:
Walter Forbes, 19th Lord Forbes
|
| regionOfActivity | Scotland ⓘ |
| socialClass | aristocracy ⓘ |
| title | Lord Forbes ⓘ |
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: Walter Forbes, 19th Lord Forbes Description of subject: Walter Forbes, 19th Lord Forbes, was a Scottish peer who held the premier lordship of Scotland as head of the historic Forbes family in the 19th century.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Walter Forbes, 19th Lord Forbes