Elizabeth Macdowall
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Elizabeth Macdowall was the wife of Scottish judge and memoirist Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, and a member of Edinburgh’s early 19th-century legal and social circles.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Elizabeth Macdowall canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7765801 — 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: Elizabeth Macdowall Context triple: [Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, spouse, Elizabeth Macdowall]
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A.
Elisabeth Farquharson
Elisabeth Farquharson was an 18th-century Scottish gentlewoman best known as the wife of the jurist and early evolutionary thinker James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
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B.
Kate Mackay
Kate Mackay is the witty, down-to-earth suburban mother and central figure in the humorous domestic adventures of "Please Don’t Eat the Daisies."
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C.
Margaret McGregor
Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
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D.
Margaret MacLachlan
Margaret MacLachlan was a Scottish Covenanter martyr executed in the 17th century for her Presbyterian faith during the period of persecution known as the Killing Times.
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E.
Agnes Maclehose
Agnes Maclehose, also known by the pseudonym "Clarinda," was a Scottish woman best remembered for her intense, epistolary romantic friendship with poet Robert Burns in the late 18th century.
- 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: Elizabeth Macdowall Target entity description: Elizabeth Macdowall was the wife of Scottish judge and memoirist Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, and a member of Edinburgh’s early 19th-century legal and social circles.
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A.
Elisabeth Farquharson
Elisabeth Farquharson was an 18th-century Scottish gentlewoman best known as the wife of the jurist and early evolutionary thinker James Burnett, Lord Monboddo.
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B.
Kate Mackay
Kate Mackay is the witty, down-to-earth suburban mother and central figure in the humorous domestic adventures of "Please Don’t Eat the Daisies."
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C.
Margaret McGregor
Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
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D.
Margaret MacLachlan
Margaret MacLachlan was a Scottish Covenanter martyr executed in the 17th century for her Presbyterian faith during the period of persecution known as the Killing Times.
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E.
Agnes Maclehose
Agnes Maclehose, also known by the pseudonym "Clarinda," was a Scottish woman best remembered for her intense, epistolary romantic friendship with poet Robert Burns in the late 18th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (14)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical figure
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Scotland ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Edinburgh legal circles
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Edinburgh social circles ⓘ |
| name | Elizabeth Macdowall ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the wife of Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn ⓘ |
| residence | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| spouse |
Elizabeth Macdowall
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Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
judge
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memoirist ⓘ |
| spouseTitle |
Lord Cockburn
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linked to:
Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn
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| timePeriod | early 19th century ⓘ |
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: Elizabeth Macdowall Description of subject: Elizabeth Macdowall was the wife of Scottish judge and memoirist Henry Cockburn, Lord Cockburn, and a member of Edinburgh’s early 19th-century legal and social circles.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.