Thomas Cochrane, 6th Earl of Dundonald
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Thomas Cochrane, 6th Earl of Dundonald, was a Scottish nobleman and military officer who served as a general in the British Army during the 18th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Cochrane, 6th Earl of Dundonald canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11567982 — 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 Cochrane, 6th Earl of Dundonald Context triple: [Earl of Dundonald, hasTitleHolder, Thomas Cochrane, 6th Earl of Dundonald]
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Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, was a renowned early 19th-century British naval officer and radical politician celebrated for his daring naval exploits during the Napoleonic Wars and later service in the navies of Chile, Brazil, and Greece.
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B.
George Cockburn
George Cockburn was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for leading raids along the American coast during the War of 1812, including the burning of Washington, D.C.
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C.
Thomas Barnes Cochrane, 11th Earl of Dundonald
Thomas Barnes Cochrane, 11th Earl of Dundonald, was a 19th-century Scottish peer and nobleman of the Cochrane family who held the hereditary title of Earl of Dundonald.
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Alexander Cochrane
Alexander Cochrane was a British Royal Navy admiral who led naval operations against the United States during the War of 1812, including the campaign that culminated in the Battle of Baltimore.
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Admiral William Brown
Admiral William Brown was an Irish-born Argentine naval officer who is celebrated as the founder and first admiral of the Argentine Navy.
- 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 Cochrane, 6th Earl of Dundonald Target entity description: Thomas Cochrane, 6th Earl of Dundonald, was a Scottish nobleman and military officer who served as a general in the British Army during the 18th century.
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A.
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, was a renowned early 19th-century British naval officer and radical politician celebrated for his daring naval exploits during the Napoleonic Wars and later service in the navies of Chile, Brazil, and Greece.
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B.
George Cockburn
George Cockburn was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for leading raids along the American coast during the War of 1812, including the burning of Washington, D.C.
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C.
Thomas Barnes Cochrane, 11th Earl of Dundonald
Thomas Barnes Cochrane, 11th Earl of Dundonald, was a 19th-century Scottish peer and nobleman of the Cochrane family who held the hereditary title of Earl of Dundonald.
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D.
Alexander Cochrane
Alexander Cochrane was a British Royal Navy admiral who led naval operations against the United States during the War of 1812, including the campaign that culminated in the Battle of Baltimore.
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E.
Admiral William Brown
Admiral William Brown was an Irish-born Argentine naval officer who is celebrated as the founder and first admiral of the Argentine Navy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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Scottish nobleman ⓘ general ⓘ human ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 18th century ⓘ |
| allegiance | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| aristocraticTitleInPeerage | Peerage of Scotland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Cochrane ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | The Right Honourable ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Cochrane family ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Earl of Dundonald ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role as a Scottish nobleman in the 18th century
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service as a general in the British Army ⓘ |
| ordinalInTitle | 6 ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Earl of Dundonald ⓘ |
| residence |
Great Britain
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Scotland ⓘ |
| socialClass | aristocracy ⓘ |
| titleHolderOf | 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: Thomas Cochrane, 6th Earl of Dundonald Description of subject: Thomas Cochrane, 6th Earl of Dundonald, was a Scottish nobleman and military officer who served as a general in the British Army during the 18th century.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.