2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
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The 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron was an early 17th-century Scottish peer from the Fairfax family, notable as the son and successor of the first Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron | 7 |
| 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron canonical | 2 |
| Lord Fairfax of Cameron | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T931764 — 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: 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron Context triple: [Sir Thomas Fairfax, nobleTitle, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron]
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Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron, was an English nobleman and soldier who became the first peer of the Fairfax family in the Scottish peerage in the early 17th century.
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Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and landowner who controlled vast estates in colonial Virginia and played a significant role in the region’s early development.
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James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl
James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who held high offices including Lord Privy Seal of Scotland and played a significant role in post-Union British politics.
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William Elphinstone
William Elphinstone was a Scottish bishop, statesman, and humanist scholar of the late 15th century who played a key role in the development of higher education in Scotland.
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John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair
John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, was a prominent Scottish soldier, diplomat, and statesman who served as a senior British commander during the War of the Austrian Succession.
- 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: 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron Target entity description: The 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron was an early 17th-century Scottish peer from the Fairfax family, notable as the son and successor of the first Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
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A.
Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Thomas Fairfax, 1st Lord Fairfax of Cameron, was an English nobleman and soldier who became the first peer of the Fairfax family in the Scottish peerage in the early 17th century.
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B.
Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and landowner who controlled vast estates in colonial Virginia and played a significant role in the region’s early development.
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C.
James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl
James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who held high offices including Lord Privy Seal of Scotland and played a significant role in post-Union British politics.
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D.
William Elphinstone
William Elphinstone was a Scottish bishop, statesman, and humanist scholar of the late 15th century who played a key role in the development of higher education in Scotland.
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E.
John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair
John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair, was a prominent Scottish soldier, diplomat, and statesman who served as a senior British commander during the War of the Austrian Succession.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
How these facts were elicited
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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: 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron Description of subject: The 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron was an early 17th-century Scottish peer from the Fairfax family, notable as the son and successor of the first Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
this entity surface form:
Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
this entity surface form:
Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
this entity surface form:
Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
this entity surface form:
Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
subject surface form:
Thomas Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
this entity surface form:
Lord Fairfax of Cameron
subject surface form:
Thomas Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
this entity surface form:
Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
this entity surface form:
Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron