William Cochrane, 5th Earl of Dundonald
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William Cochrane, 5th Earl of Dundonald, was a Scottish nobleman of the Cochrane family who held a peerage in the Kingdom of Scotland during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Cochrane, 5th Earl of Dundonald canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11567981 — 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, 5th Earl of Dundonald Context triple: [Earl of Dundonald, hasTitleHolder, William Cochrane, 5th Earl of Dundonald]
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William Cochrane, 3rd Earl of Dundonald
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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B.
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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C.
John Cochrane, 4th Earl of Dundonald
John Cochrane, 4th Earl of Dundonald, was a Scottish nobleman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who held the hereditary peerage of Earl of Dundonald.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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, 5th Earl of Dundonald Target entity description: William Cochrane, 5th Earl of Dundonald, was a Scottish nobleman of the Cochrane family who held a peerage in the Kingdom of Scotland during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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A.
William Cochrane, 3rd Earl of Dundonald
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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B.
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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C.
John Cochrane, 4th Earl of Dundonald
John Cochrane, 4th Earl of Dundonald, was a Scottish nobleman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who held the hereditary peerage of Earl of Dundonald.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Earl of Dundonald
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Scottish nobleman ⓘ member of the Scottish nobility ⓘ peer ⓘ |
| aristocraticHouse | House of Cochrane ⓘ |
| aristocraticTitleNumber | 5 ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Cochrane family ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Cochrane ⓘ |
| floruit |
early 18th century
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late 17th century ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Early Modern period ⓘ |
| languageOfEnvironment |
English
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Scots ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Cochrane family ⓘ |
| nobleRank | Earl ⓘ |
| nobleTitleInPeerage | Peerage of Scotland ⓘ |
| notableFor | holding the title Earl of Dundonald in the Peerage of Scotland ⓘ |
| peerageJurisdiction | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| positionHeld | 5th Earl of Dundonald ⓘ |
| precededByTitleHolder | 4th Earl of Dundonald ⓘ |
| realm | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| region | Scotland ⓘ |
| socialClass |
aristocracy
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nobility ⓘ |
| succeededByTitleHolder | 6th Earl of Dundonald ⓘ |
| title |
Earl of Dundonald
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Lord Cochrane ⓘ
linked to:
Captain Lord Cochrane
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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, 5th Earl of Dundonald Description of subject: William Cochrane, 5th Earl of Dundonald, was a Scottish nobleman of the Cochrane family who held a peerage in the Kingdom of Scotland during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.