William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald
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William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and Royalist supporter who became the first holder of the Dundonald earldom during the reign of Charles I.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11567977 — 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: William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald Context triple: [Earl of Dundonald, hasTitleHolder, William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald]
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A.
Archibald Campbell, 10th Earl of Argyll
Archibald Campbell, 10th Earl of Argyll, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish nobleman and Covenanter leader who played a key role in the religious and political conflicts of the Stuart era.
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B.
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, was a prominent Scottish soldier and statesman who played a key role in suppressing the Jacobite rising of 1715 and served in high military and political office under the British crown.
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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.
Hugh Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Eglinton
Hugh Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Eglinton, was a prominent Scottish nobleman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries who played a significant role in the politics and feuds of the Scottish Lowlands.
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E.
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.
- 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: William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald Target entity description: William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and Royalist supporter who became the first holder of the Dundonald earldom during the reign of Charles I.
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A.
Archibald Campbell, 10th Earl of Argyll
Archibald Campbell, 10th Earl of Argyll, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish nobleman and Covenanter leader who played a key role in the religious and political conflicts of the Stuart era.
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B.
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, was a prominent Scottish soldier and statesman who played a key role in suppressing the Jacobite rising of 1715 and served in high military and political office under the British crown.
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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.
Hugh Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Eglinton
Hugh Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Eglinton, was a prominent Scottish nobleman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries who played a significant role in the politics and feuds of the Scottish Lowlands.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Earl
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Royalist ⓘ Scottish nobleman ⓘ peer of Scotland ⓘ |
| allegiance | House of Stuart ⓘ |
| associatedPlace | Dundonald, Scotland ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 17th century ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| familyName | Cochrane ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Wars of the Three Kingdoms ⓘ |
| languageOfEnvironment |
English
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Scots ⓘ |
| monarchDuringCreationOfEarldom | Charles I of England ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Earl of Dundonald
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Lord Cochrane of Dundonald ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first holder of the Earldom of Dundonald ⓘ |
| peerage | Peerage of Scotland ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Royalist ⓘ |
| region | Scotland ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| supportedMonarch | Charles I of England ⓘ |
| supportedSide | Royalists ⓘ |
| titleCreationContext | reign of Charles I of England ⓘ |
| titleHolderNumber | 1st Earl of Dundonald ⓘ |
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: William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald Description of subject: William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and Royalist supporter who became the first holder of the Dundonald earldom during the reign of Charles I.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
John Cochrane, 2nd Earl of Dundonald
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titleSucceededFrom
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William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald
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