William Cochrane, 3rd Earl of Dundonald
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William Cochrane, 3rd Earl of Dundonald was a Scottish nobleman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who held a peerage in the Kingdom of Scotland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Cochrane, 3rd Earl of Dundonald canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11567979 — 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, 3rd Earl of Dundonald Context triple: [Earl of Dundonald, hasTitleHolder, William Cochrane, 3rd Earl of Dundonald]
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William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald
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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B.
John Cochrane, 2nd Earl of Dundonald
John Cochrane, 2nd Earl of Dundonald, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and Royalist who succeeded to the Dundonald earldom during the turbulent period of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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C.
Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald
Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald, was a British Army general and Scottish nobleman known for his military service during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
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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E.
Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald
Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and inventor noted for his pioneering work in industrial chemistry, particularly in the production of coal tar and related innovations.
- 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, 3rd Earl of Dundonald Target entity description: William Cochrane, 3rd Earl of Dundonald was a Scottish nobleman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who held a peerage in the Kingdom of Scotland.
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A.
William Cochrane, 1st Earl of Dundonald
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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B.
John Cochrane, 2nd Earl of Dundonald
John Cochrane, 2nd Earl of Dundonald, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and Royalist who succeeded to the Dundonald earldom during the turbulent period of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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C.
Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald
Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald, was a British Army general and Scottish nobleman known for his military service during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
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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E.
Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald
Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and inventor noted for his pioneering work in industrial chemistry, particularly in the production of coal tar and related innovations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Earl in the Peerage of Scotland
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Scottish nobleman ⓘ peer of Scotland ⓘ |
| aristocraticTitleTerritory | Dundonald ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Cochrane ⓘ |
| floruit |
early 18th century
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late 17th century ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Early Modern period ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | The Right Honourable ⓘ |
| languageOfUse |
English
ⓘ
Scots ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Cochrane family ⓘ |
| nobleRank | Earl ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Earl of Dundonald ⓘ |
| ordinalInTitle | 3rd Earl of Dundonald ⓘ |
| partOf | Scottish peerage system ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Member of the Scottish nobility ⓘ |
| precededByInTitle | 2nd Earl of Dundonald ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Scotland ⓘ |
| residence | Scotland ⓘ |
| socialClass | aristocracy ⓘ |
| titleHeldIn | Peerage of Scotland ⓘ |
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, 3rd Earl of Dundonald Description of subject: William Cochrane, 3rd Earl of Dundonald was a Scottish nobleman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who held a peerage in the Kingdom of Scotland.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.