John Lyon, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
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John Lyon, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and head of the Lyon family, whose lineage later produced Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Lyon, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12648338 — 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: John Lyon, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne Context triple: [Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, hasTitleHolder, John Lyon, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne]
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Patrick Lyon, 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Patrick Lyon, 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who played a prominent role in the affairs of the Scottish aristocracy during the reigns of Charles II and James VII.
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B.
James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith
James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, was a Scottish nobleman of the late 17th century, best known as the son of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, and a member of the extended Stuart royal family.
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C.
John Bowes, 10th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
John Bowes, 10th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and peer who held prominent titles and estates within the Scottish aristocracy.
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D.
John Leslie, 6th Earl of Rothes
John Leslie, 6th Earl of Rothes, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish nobleman and statesman who played a leading role in the political and religious conflicts of his time, including the Covenanter movement.
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E.
John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, is a South African-born Scottish peer known for inheriting the historic Atholl dukedom and its ceremonial command of the Atholl Highlanders, the only legal private army in Europe.
- 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: John Lyon, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne Target entity description: John Lyon, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and head of the Lyon family, whose lineage later produced Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
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A.
Patrick Lyon, 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Patrick Lyon, 1st Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who played a prominent role in the affairs of the Scottish aristocracy during the reigns of Charles II and James VII.
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B.
James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith
James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, was a Scottish nobleman of the late 17th century, best known as the son of James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, and a member of the extended Stuart royal family.
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C.
John Bowes, 10th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
John Bowes, 10th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and peer who held prominent titles and estates within the Scottish aristocracy.
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D.
John Leslie, 6th Earl of Rothes
John Leslie, 6th Earl of Rothes, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish nobleman and statesman who played a leading role in the political and religious conflicts of his time, including the Covenanter movement.
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E.
John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, is a South African-born Scottish peer known for inheriting the historic Atholl dukedom and its ceremonial command of the Atholl Highlanders, the only legal private army in Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
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Scottish nobleman ⓘ peer ⓘ |
| aristocraticHouse | House of Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| aristocraticTitleHeldIn | Peerage of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
County of Angus
NERFINISHED
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Kinghorne NERFINISHED ⓘ Strathmore NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAncestralSeat | Glamis Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headOf | Lyon family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfUse |
English
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Scots ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Lyon family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Earl
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Lord Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableDescendant |
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
NERFINISHED
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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Scottish peerage ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | 8th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Scotland ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| succeededBy | 10th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: John Lyon, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne Description of subject: John Lyon, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and head of the Lyon family, whose lineage later produced Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
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hasTitleHolder
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John Lyon, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne
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