Robert Monro
E296479
Robert Monro was a 17th-century Scottish general noted for his service in the Thirty Years' War and in Ireland during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Monro canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2558590 — 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: Robert Monro Context triple: [Battle of Benburb, commander, Robert Monro]
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A.
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.
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B.
John Carr Munro
John Carr Munro was a Canadian politician who served as a longtime Member of Parliament from Hamilton, Ontario, and held several federal cabinet positions.
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C.
William Robertson
William Robertson was an influential 18th-century Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister whose works and leadership at the University of Edinburgh made him a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
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D.
Robert Carleton-Munro
Robert Carleton-Munro was the husband of classic Hollywood film star Veronica Lake.
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E.
Matthew Stirling
Matthew Stirling was an American archaeologist and ethnologist known for his pioneering excavations of Olmec sites in Mexico and his contributions to the study of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations.
- 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: Robert Monro Target entity description: Robert Monro was a 17th-century Scottish general noted for his service in the Thirty Years' War and in Ireland during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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A.
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.
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B.
John Carr Munro
John Carr Munro was a Canadian politician who served as a longtime Member of Parliament from Hamilton, Ontario, and held several federal cabinet positions.
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C.
William Robertson
William Robertson was an influential 18th-century Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister whose works and leadership at the University of Edinburgh made him a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
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D.
Robert Carleton-Munro
Robert Carleton-Munro was the husband of classic Hollywood film star Veronica Lake.
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E.
Matthew Stirling
Matthew Stirling was an American archaeologist and ethnologist known for his pioneering excavations of Olmec sites in Mexico and his contributions to the study of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish general
ⓘ
person ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| conflict |
Irish Confederate Wars
ⓘ
Thirty Years' War ⓘ Wars of the Three Kingdoms ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Scotland ⓘ |
| employer |
crown of Scotland
ⓘ
surface form:
Crown of Scotland
Swedish Army ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Monro ⓘ |
| genre | military memoir ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
Scots ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Scottish army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| notableFor |
command of Scottish forces in Ulster
ⓘ
military service in Ireland ⓘ military service in the Thirty Years' War ⓘ role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms ⓘ |
| notableWork | Monro, His Expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment Called Mac-Keyes ⓘ |
| occupation |
military officer
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Irish Confederate Wars
ⓘ
Thirty Years' War ⓘ Wars of the Three Kingdoms ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Germany
ⓘ
Island of Ireland ⓘ
surface form:
Ireland
Scotland ⓘ |
| servedUnder | Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden ⓘ |
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: Robert Monro Description of subject: Robert Monro was a 17th-century Scottish general noted for his service in the Thirty Years' War and in Ireland during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.