James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth
E231896
James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish nobleman and statesman who served as Lord Chancellor of Scotland under King James VII and II and later became a leading Jacobite exile.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth canonical | 2 |
| 4th Earl of Perth | 1 |
| James Drummond 1st Duke of Perth | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1562719 — 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: James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth Context triple: [Perth Amboy, namedAfter, James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth]
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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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John Erskine, Earl of Mar
John Erskine, Earl of Mar, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and politician best known for initiating and commanding the Jacobite rising of 1715 in an effort to restore the Stuart monarchy.
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John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl, was an 18th-century Scottish peer and politician known for his role in British public life and as a prominent member of the influential Murray family.
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D.
William Graham, 5th Earl of Menteith
William Graham, 5th Earl of Menteith, was a Scottish nobleman of the early 16th century who held significant regional power and influence in the central Highlands.
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E.
John Graham, 6th Earl of Menteith
John Graham, 6th Earl of Menteith, was a Scottish nobleman of the late medieval period who held significant regional power and influence in the Menteith area of the Scottish Highlands.
- 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: James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth Target entity description: James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish nobleman and statesman who served as Lord Chancellor of Scotland under King James VII and II and later became a leading Jacobite exile.
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A.
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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B.
John Erskine, Earl of Mar
John Erskine, Earl of Mar, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and politician best known for initiating and commanding the Jacobite rising of 1715 in an effort to restore the Stuart monarchy.
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C.
John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl, was an 18th-century Scottish peer and politician known for his role in British public life and as a prominent member of the influential Murray family.
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D.
William Graham, 5th Earl of Menteith
William Graham, 5th Earl of Menteith, was a Scottish nobleman of the early 16th century who held significant regional power and influence in the central Highlands.
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E.
John Graham, 6th Earl of Menteith
John Graham, 6th Earl of Menteith, was a Scottish nobleman of the late medieval period who held significant regional power and influence in the Menteith area of the Scottish Highlands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth Description of subject: James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish nobleman and statesman who served as Lord Chancellor of Scotland under King James VII and II and later became a leading Jacobite exile.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth
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James Drummond, 4th Earl of Perth
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this entity surface form:
4th Earl of Perth
this entity surface form:
James Drummond 1st Duke of Perth