William Douglas-Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton
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William Douglas-Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and peer who held one of the highest-ranking titles in the Scottish aristocracy during a period of significant political upheaval.
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How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3828412 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Douglas-Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton Context triple: [Hamilton family (Dukes of Hamilton), notableMember, William Douglas-Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton]
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James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and Royalist leader during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms who played a key role in the political and military struggles surrounding King Charles I.
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Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll
Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll was an influential early 18th-century Scottish nobleman, soldier, and Whig politician who played a key role in British military and political affairs after the 1707 Union.
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George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll was a 19th-century Scottish peer and Liberal politician who served in several senior government positions, including Secretary of State for India and Lord Privy Seal.
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John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, was a prominent 19th-century British nobleman and statesman who served as Governor General of Canada and played a key role in the country's intellectual and political life.
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John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll
John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who held high offices in Britain, including serving as a field marshal and a prominent Whig statesman.
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- 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: William Douglas-Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton Target entity description: William Douglas-Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and peer who held one of the highest-ranking titles in the Scottish aristocracy during a period of significant political upheaval.
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A.
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and Royalist leader during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms who played a key role in the political and military struggles surrounding King Charles I.
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B.
Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll
Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll was an influential early 18th-century Scottish nobleman, soldier, and Whig politician who played a key role in British military and political affairs after the 1707 Union.
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C.
George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll was a 19th-century Scottish peer and Liberal politician who served in several senior government positions, including Secretary of State for India and Lord Privy Seal.
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John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll
John Campbell, 9th Duke of Argyll, was a prominent 19th-century British nobleman and statesman who served as Governor General of Canada and played a key role in the country's intellectual and political life.
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John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll
John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who held high offices in Britain, including serving as a field marshal and a prominent Whig statesman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
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: William Douglas-Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton Description of subject: William Douglas-Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and peer who held one of the highest-ranking titles in the Scottish aristocracy during a period of significant political upheaval.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Hamilton family (Dukes of Hamilton)
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notableMember
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William Douglas-Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton
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this entity surface form:
William Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton (by courtesy after marriage)
Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton
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predecessor
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William Douglas-Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton
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this entity surface form:
William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton