Eric Drummond, 1st Baron Drummond of Stobhall
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Eric Drummond, 1st Baron Drummond of Stobhall, was a British diplomat best known as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eric Drummond, 1st Baron Drummond of Stobhall canonical | 2 |
| 1st Baron Drummond of Stobhall | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9821424 — 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: Eric Drummond, 1st Baron Drummond of Stobhall Context triple: [Baron Drummond of Stobhall, hasTitleHolder, Eric Drummond, 1st Baron Drummond of Stobhall]
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Sir John Drummond of Stobhall
Sir John Drummond of Stobhall was a prominent Scottish nobleman and laird of the Drummond family, influential in late medieval Scottish politics and aristocratic alliances.
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B.
George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton
George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and professional soldier who served prominently in the French and later the English armies under King Charles II.
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C.
Alexander Leith, 1st Baron Leith of Fyvie
Alexander Leith, 1st Baron Leith of Fyvie, was a 19th-century Scottish businessman and Liberal politician who was elevated to the peerage and is notably associated with Fyvie Castle in Aberdeenshire.
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D.
William Murray, 1st Earl of Dysart
William Murray, 1st Earl of Dysart, was a 17th-century Scottish courtier and close favorite of King Charles I who rose to prominence in the royal household and was later ennobled for his service.
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E.
James Leslie, 1st Lord Lindores
James Leslie, 1st Lord Lindores, was a Scottish nobleman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries who was elevated to the peerage as Lord Lindores and became a prominent member of the influential Leslie family.
- 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: Eric Drummond, 1st Baron Drummond of Stobhall Target entity description: Eric Drummond, 1st Baron Drummond of Stobhall, was a British diplomat best known as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations.
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A.
Sir John Drummond of Stobhall
Sir John Drummond of Stobhall was a prominent Scottish nobleman and laird of the Drummond family, influential in late medieval Scottish politics and aristocratic alliances.
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B.
George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton
George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and professional soldier who served prominently in the French and later the English armies under King Charles II.
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C.
Alexander Leith, 1st Baron Leith of Fyvie
Alexander Leith, 1st Baron Leith of Fyvie, was a 19th-century Scottish businessman and Liberal politician who was elevated to the peerage and is notably associated with Fyvie Castle in Aberdeenshire.
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D.
William Murray, 1st Earl of Dysart
William Murray, 1st Earl of Dysart, was a 17th-century Scottish courtier and close favorite of King Charles I who rose to prominence in the royal household and was later ennobled for his service.
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E.
James Leslie, 1st Lord Lindores
James Leslie, 1st Lord Lindores, was a Scottish nobleman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries who was elevated to the peerage as Lord Lindores and became a prominent member of the influential Leslie family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (34)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British diplomat
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Secretary-General of the League of Nations ⓘ human ⓘ |
| affiliation |
British Foreign Office
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
League of Nations NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| familyName | Drummond NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
diplomacy
ⓘ
international relations ⓘ |
| genre | international organization administration ⓘ |
| givenName | Eric NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRole |
head of international organization
ⓘ
international civil servant ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | The Right Honourable ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
House of Lords
ⓘ
League of Nations Secretariat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleRank | Baron ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | 1st Baron Drummond of Stobhall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations
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contributions to early international civil service ⓘ pioneering the role of Secretary-General in a global organization ⓘ |
| notableWork | establishing the administrative structure of the League of Nations ⓘ |
| occupation |
civil servant
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diplomat ⓘ |
| partOf | British diplomatic service NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
British ambassador to Italy
NERFINISHED
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Secretary-General of the League of Nations NERFINISHED ⓘ peer of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| title | Baron Drummond of Stobhall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Geneva
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London, England ⓘ
surface form:
London
Rome ⓘ |
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: Eric Drummond, 1st Baron Drummond of Stobhall Description of subject: Eric Drummond, 1st Baron Drummond of Stobhall, was a British diplomat best known as the first Secretary-General of the League of Nations.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Eric Drummond, 1st Baron Drummond of Stobhall
this entity surface form:
1st Baron Drummond of Stobhall
subject surface form:
Secretary-General of the League of Nations