David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk
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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.
All labels observed (1)
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| David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T295222 — 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, 1st Earl of Southesk Context triple: [Clan Carnegie, notableMember, David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk]
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James Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk
James Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk, was a Scottish nobleman of the Carnegie family who held a peerage title in the British aristocracy.
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David Charles Carnegie, 4th Duke of Fife
David Charles Carnegie, 4th Duke of Fife, was a British peer and descendant of the royal family who held multiple aristocratic titles and managed extensive Scottish estates in the 20th century.
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Charles Noel Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk
Charles Noel Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk, was a Scottish nobleman and landowner who held a senior title in the Peerage of Scotland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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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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John Lyon
John Lyon was a 16th-century English landowner and philanthropist best known for endowing and founding Harrow School, one of England’s leading public schools.
- 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, 1st Earl of Southesk Target entity description: 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.
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A.
James Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk
James Carnegie, 11th Earl of Southesk, was a Scottish nobleman of the Carnegie family who held a peerage title in the British aristocracy.
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B.
David Charles Carnegie, 4th Duke of Fife
David Charles Carnegie, 4th Duke of Fife, was a British peer and descendant of the royal family who held multiple aristocratic titles and managed extensive Scottish estates in the 20th century.
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C.
Charles Noel Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk
Charles Noel Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk, was a Scottish nobleman and landowner who held a senior title in the Peerage of Scotland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
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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E.
John Lyon
John Lyon was a 16th-century English landowner and philanthropist best known for endowing and founding Harrow School, one of England’s leading public schools.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
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, 1st Earl of Southesk Description of subject: 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.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.