Lord Steel of Aikwood
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Lord Steel of Aikwood is the life peerage title of David Steel, a prominent British Liberal politician and former leader of the Liberal Party.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lord Steel of Aikwood canonical | 3 |
| Baron Steel of Aikwood | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2634688 — 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: Lord Steel of Aikwood Context triple: [David Steel, hasHonorificTitle, Lord Steel of Aikwood]
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A.
Lord Haddo
Lord Haddo is a courtesy title traditionally borne by the heir apparent to the Earl of Aberdeen in the Scottish peerage.
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B.
Lord Steyn
Lord Steyn was a prominent British Law Lord and jurist known for his influential judgments in the House of Lords and his advocacy for human rights and judicial independence.
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C.
Baron McFall of Alcluith
Baron McFall of Alcluith is a life peerage in the United Kingdom held by John McFall, a former Labour MP who became Lord Speaker of the House of Lords.
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D.
Lord Grey of Warke
Lord Grey of Warke was an English nobleman and military leader active during the late 17th century, notably associated with the Monmouth Rebellion.
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E.
Lord Selborne
Lord Selborne was a British statesman and Conservative politician who held several high offices in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including leadership roles in naval administration and colonial governance.
- 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: Lord Steel of Aikwood Target entity description: Lord Steel of Aikwood is the life peerage title of David Steel, a prominent British Liberal politician and former leader of the Liberal Party.
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A.
Lord Haddo
Lord Haddo is a courtesy title traditionally borne by the heir apparent to the Earl of Aberdeen in the Scottish peerage.
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B.
Lord Steyn
Lord Steyn was a prominent British Law Lord and jurist known for his influential judgments in the House of Lords and his advocacy for human rights and judicial independence.
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C.
Baron McFall of Alcluith
Baron McFall of Alcluith is a life peerage in the United Kingdom held by John McFall, a former Labour MP who became Lord Speaker of the House of Lords.
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D.
Lord Grey of Warke
Lord Grey of Warke was an English nobleman and military leader active during the late 17th century, notably associated with the Monmouth Rebellion.
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E.
Lord Selborne
Lord Selborne was a British statesman and Conservative politician who held several high offices in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including leadership roles in naval administration and colonial governance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
ⓘ
life peerage ⓘ |
| associatedWithPoliticalParty |
Liberal Democrats
ⓘ
surface form:
Liberal Democrats (UK)
Liberal Party (UK) ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork | politics ⓘ |
| grantee | David Steel ⓘ |
| hasTitle | life peer ⓘ |
| heldBy | David Steel ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Lord Steel of Aikwood self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| honoursSystem | Life peerages in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| isTitleOf | David Steel ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legislativeBody |
British Parliament
ⓘ
surface form:
Parliament of the United Kingdom
|
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Liberal Democrats
ⓘ
surface form:
Liberal Democrats (UK)
Liberal Party (UK) ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Lord Steel of Aikwood
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Baron Steel of Aikwood
|
| nobleTitleFor | David Steel ⓘ |
| notableFor | leadership of the British Liberal Party ⓘ |
| occupation | politician ⓘ |
| peerageOf | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| peerageType | life peer ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Leader of the Liberal Party (UK)
ⓘ
Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom ⓘ Member of the House of Lords ⓘ |
| residence | Scotland ⓘ |
| titleHolder | David Steel ⓘ |
| titleStyle |
Lord Steel of Aikwood
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Baron Steel of Aikwood
|
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: Lord Steel of Aikwood Description of subject: Lord Steel of Aikwood is the life peerage title of David Steel, a prominent British Liberal politician and former leader of the Liberal Party.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
David Steel
this entity surface form:
Baron Steel of Aikwood
subject surface form:
David Steel
subject surface form:
David Steel
this entity surface form:
Baron Steel of Aikwood