Lord Stirling
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Lord Stirling, born William Alexander, was an American Revolutionary War general who played a notable leadership role in several key campaigns, including early New Jersey operations.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lord Stirling canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5538784 — 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 Stirling Context triple: [Forage War, combatantCommander, Lord Stirling]
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A.
Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven
Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish soldier and nobleman who rose to fame as a leading Covenanter general and later served as Lord General of the Scottish army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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B.
Alexander Leslie
Alexander Leslie was a British Army general of the 18th century who served in the American Revolutionary War, including senior command roles in major southern campaigns.
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C.
Viscount Dundee
Viscount Dundee, also known as John Graham of Claverhouse, was a Scottish nobleman and military leader famed for spearheading the first Jacobite rising in support of James VII and II in 1689.
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D.
Archibald Campbell
Archibald Campbell was a British general best known for leading British forces in early 19th-century colonial campaigns, particularly in Southeast Asia.
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E.
James Stewart, Duke of Ross
James Stewart, Duke of Ross was a late 15th-century Scottish prince and younger son of King James III, noted for holding high ecclesiastical offices including the archbishopric of St Andrews.
- 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 Stirling Target entity description: Lord Stirling, born William Alexander, was an American Revolutionary War general who played a notable leadership role in several key campaigns, including early New Jersey operations.
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A.
Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven
Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish soldier and nobleman who rose to fame as a leading Covenanter general and later served as Lord General of the Scottish army during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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B.
Alexander Leslie
Alexander Leslie was a British Army general of the 18th century who served in the American Revolutionary War, including senior command roles in major southern campaigns.
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C.
Viscount Dundee
Viscount Dundee, also known as John Graham of Claverhouse, was a Scottish nobleman and military leader famed for spearheading the first Jacobite rising in support of James VII and II in 1689.
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D.
Archibald Campbell
Archibald Campbell was a British general best known for leading British forces in early 19th-century colonial campaigns, particularly in Southeast Asia.
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E.
James Stewart, Duke of Ross
James Stewart, Duke of Ross was a late 15th-century Scottish prince and younger son of King James III, noted for holding high ecclesiastical offices including the archbishopric of St Andrews.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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 Stirling Description of subject: Lord Stirling, born William Alexander, was an American Revolutionary War general who played a notable leadership role in several key campaigns, including early New Jersey operations.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.