Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon
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Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon, was an 18th–19th century Scottish nobleman and military officer who served as a prominent Tory politician and influential landowner in the Highlands.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon canonical | 7 |
| 4th Duke of Gordon | 1 |
| Alexander Gordon 4th Duke of Gordon | 1 |
| Alexander, 4th Duke of Gordon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5534351 — 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: Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon Context triple: [Lord George Gordon, sibling, Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon]
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John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who played a significant role in the turbulent Jacobite and Union-era politics of Scotland.
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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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George Murray, 6th Duke of Atholl
George Murray, 6th Duke of Atholl, was a 19th-century Scottish peer and head of the Murray family who held extensive estates and traditional clan leadership in the Highlands.
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D.
George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus
George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman and influential member of the Douglas family who played a key role in the turbulent politics of late medieval Scotland.
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James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl
James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who held high offices including Lord Privy Seal of Scotland and played a significant role in post-Union British politics.
- 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: Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon Target entity description: Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon, was an 18th–19th century Scottish nobleman and military officer who served as a prominent Tory politician and influential landowner in the Highlands.
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A.
John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who played a significant role in the turbulent Jacobite and Union-era politics of Scotland.
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B.
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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C.
George Murray, 6th Duke of Atholl
George Murray, 6th Duke of Atholl, was a 19th-century Scottish peer and head of the Murray family who held extensive estates and traditional clan leadership in the Highlands.
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D.
George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus
George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman and influential member of the Douglas family who played a key role in the turbulent politics of late medieval Scotland.
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E.
James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl
James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who held high offices including Lord Privy Seal of Scotland and played a significant role in post-Union British politics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon Description of subject: Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon, was an 18th–19th century Scottish nobleman and military officer who served as a prominent Tory politician and influential landowner in the Highlands.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon
linked to: Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon
subject linked to:
Dukes of Gordon