Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
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Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron was a prominent English nobleman and military commander who served as a leading general for the Parliamentarian forces during the English Civil War.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron canonical | 11 |
| 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron | 3 |
| Lord Fairfax | 3 |
| Thomas Fairfax – Parliamentarian | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1321926 — 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)
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Target entity: Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron Context triple: [Thomas Fairfax, alsoKnownAs, Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron]
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
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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D.
William Seton
William Seton was an early American financier and broker known for being among the founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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E.
Thomas Montgomerie
Thomas Montgomerie was a 19th-century British surveyor and officer of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, noted for his early mapping of the Karakoram and Himalaya.
- 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 Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron Target entity description: Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron was a prominent English nobleman and military commander who served as a leading general for the Parliamentarian forces during the English Civil War.
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
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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D.
William Seton
William Seton was an early American financier and broker known for being among the founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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E.
Thomas Montgomerie
Thomas Montgomerie was a 19th-century British surveyor and officer of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, noted for his early mapping of the Karakoram and Himalaya.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English nobleman
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Parliamentarian general ⓘ human ⓘ military commander ⓘ |
| allegiance | Parliament of England ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1612-01-17 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Dent, Yorkshire, England ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Bilbrough, Yorkshire, England ⓘ |
| child | Mary Fairfax ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1671-11-12 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Nun Appleton, Yorkshire, England
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surface form:
Nunappleton, Yorkshire, England
|
| educatedAt | St John's College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Fairfax ⓘ |
| father |
2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
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surface form:
Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
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| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | Lord ⓘ |
| knownFor |
leading Parliamentarian victories in the English Civil War
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restraining radical elements in the New Model Army ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Parliamentarian forces ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Parliamentarian Army ⓘ |
| militaryConflict |
English Civil War
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surface form:
First English Civil War
Second English Civil War ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Sheffield ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
|
| notableBattle |
Battle of Marston Moor
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Battle of Naseby ⓘ Siege of Oxford ⓘ Siege of York ⓘ |
| notableEvent | English Civil War ⓘ |
| notableWork | command of the New Model Army in the English Civil War ⓘ |
| opponent |
Charles I of England
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Royalist forces ⓘ |
| peerage | Peerage of Scotland ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Sir Thomas Fairfax
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surface form:
Lord General of the Parliamentarian forces
commander-in-chief of the New Model Army ⓘ |
| predecessor |
2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
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surface form:
Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
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| religion |
Protestant Christianity
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surface form:
Protestantism
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| residence |
Nunappleton Hall, Yorkshire
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Yorkshire ⓘ
surface form:
Yorkshire, England
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| signature | Signature of Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron ⓘ |
| spouse | Anne Vere ⓘ |
| successor |
Henry Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
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surface form:
Henry Fairfax, 4th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
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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: Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron Description of subject: Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron was a prominent English nobleman and military commander who served as a leading general for the Parliamentarian forces during the English Civil War.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lord Fairfax
this entity surface form:
Lord Fairfax
this entity surface form:
Lord Fairfax
this entity surface form:
3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
subject surface form:
Nun Appleton Hall
subject surface form:
Nun Appleton Hall
Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
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nobleTitle
→
Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
this entity surface form:
Thomas Fairfax – Parliamentarian
subject surface form:
Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron
this entity surface form:
3rd Lord Fairfax of Cameron