Thomas Graham
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Thomas Graham was a British Army general and later Baron Lynedoch, noted for his distinguished service during the Napoleonic Wars.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Graham canonical | 1 |
| Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9281898 — 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: Thomas Graham Context triple: [Battle of Barrosa, commander, Thomas Graham]
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A.
James Dewar
James Dewar was a Scottish chemist and physicist best known for inventing the vacuum flask and pioneering research in low-temperature physics and liquefied gases.
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B.
Henry Clifton Sorby
Henry Clifton Sorby was a 19th-century English scientist and pioneer of microscopical petrography and metallography, known for his groundbreaking work on the microscopic structure of rocks and metals.
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C.
J. H. Frankland
J. H. Frankland is a mycologist recognized for formally describing and naming taxa within the fungal family Ophiostomataceae.
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D.
Frederick Thomas Trouton
Frederick Thomas Trouton was an Irish physicist best known for his work in electromagnetism and relativity-related experiments, including the Trouton–Noble experiment.
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E.
Thomas Andrews
Thomas Andrews was a British shipbuilder and naval architect best known as the chief designer of the RMS Titanic, who perished during its sinking in 1912.
- 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: Thomas Graham Target entity description: Thomas Graham was a British Army general and later Baron Lynedoch, noted for his distinguished service during the Napoleonic Wars.
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A.
James Dewar
James Dewar was a Scottish chemist and physicist best known for inventing the vacuum flask and pioneering research in low-temperature physics and liquefied gases.
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B.
Henry Clifton Sorby
Henry Clifton Sorby was a 19th-century English scientist and pioneer of microscopical petrography and metallography, known for his groundbreaking work on the microscopic structure of rocks and metals.
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C.
J. H. Frankland
J. H. Frankland is a mycologist recognized for formally describing and naming taxa within the fungal family Ophiostomataceae.
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D.
Frederick Thomas Trouton
Frederick Thomas Trouton was an Irish physicist best known for his work in electromagnetism and relativity-related experiments, including the Trouton–Noble experiment.
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E.
Thomas Andrews
Thomas Andrews was a British shipbuilder and naval architect best known as the chief designer of the RMS Titanic, who perished during its sinking in 1912.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Baron in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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British Army officer ⓘ human ⓘ nobleman ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Kingdom of Great Britain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1748-10-19 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Bargany, Ayrshire, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Methven, Perthshire, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfMilitaryCareer | death of his wife Mary Cathcart ⓘ |
| conflict |
French Revolutionary Wars
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Napoleonic Wars ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| createdPeerageTitle | 1814 ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1843-12-18 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | London, England ⓘ |
| familySeat | Lynedoch, Perthshire, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | General ⓘ |
| honorificSuffix | PC ⓘ |
| knownFor |
distinguished service in the Peninsular War
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victory at the Battle of Barrosa in 1811 ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| laterRank | General ⓘ |
| memberOf |
House of Commons of Great Britain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
House of Lords ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryUnitCommanded |
British Army 1st Division (Peninsular War, temporarily)
NERFINISHED
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British forces at the Battle of Barrosa ⓘ |
| name | Thomas Graham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Baron Lynedoch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableBattle |
Battle of Barrosa
NERFINISHED
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Battle of Busaco NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Corunna NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Salamanca NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Vimeiro NERFINISHED ⓘ Battle of Vittoria NERFINISHED ⓘ Siege of Badajoz (1812) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
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soldier ⓘ |
| peerage | Peerage of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Privy Counsellor ⓘ |
| rank | Lieutenant General ⓘ |
| representedInParliament | Perthshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| servedUnder |
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
NERFINISHED
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Sir John Moore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Cathcart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Thomas Graham Description of subject: Thomas Graham was a British Army general and later Baron Lynedoch, noted for his distinguished service during the Napoleonic Wars.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Thomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch