James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton
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James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and peer who held one of Scotland’s premier dukedoms and played a prominent role in the aristocratic and political life of his time.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3828417 — 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 Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton Context triple: [Hamilton family (Dukes of Hamilton), notableMember, James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton]
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James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton
James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton was a prominent 17th–18th century Scottish nobleman and politician who served as a leading Jacobite supporter and died from wounds sustained in a famous duel with Lord Mohun in 1712.
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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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C.
Douglas Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton
Douglas Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton was an 18th-century Scottish peer and nobleman who held one of Scotland’s premier dukedoms and played a prominent role in the aristocratic society of his time.
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D.
William Douglas-Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton
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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E.
James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose
James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose, was a prominent early 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who held high office under the British crown and was influential in the politics of the Acts of Union between Scotland and England.
- 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 Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton Target entity description: James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and peer who held one of Scotland’s premier dukedoms and played a prominent role in the aristocratic and political life of his time.
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A.
James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton
James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton was a prominent 17th–18th century Scottish nobleman and politician who served as a leading Jacobite supporter and died from wounds sustained in a famous duel with Lord Mohun in 1712.
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B.
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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C.
Douglas Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton
Douglas Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton was an 18th-century Scottish peer and nobleman who held one of Scotland’s premier dukedoms and played a prominent role in the aristocratic society of his time.
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D.
William Douglas-Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton
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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E.
James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose
James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose, was a prominent early 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who held high office under the British crown and was influential in the politics of the Acts of Union between Scotland and England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Duke of Hamilton
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Scottish nobleman ⓘ human ⓘ peer ⓘ |
| aristocraticTitleTerritory |
Brandon
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Hamilton ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scots ⓘ |
| familyName | Hamilton ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| memberOf |
British peerage
ⓘ
Scottish peerage ⓘ |
| nobleRank | duke ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Duke of Brandon
ⓘ
Duke of Hamilton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
holding one of Scotland’s premier dukedoms
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role in 18th-century British political life ⓘ role in 18th-century Scottish aristocratic life ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Duke of Brandon
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surface form:
2nd Duke of Brandon
5th Duke of Hamilton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
Great Britain
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Scotland ⓘ |
| socialClass | aristocracy ⓘ |
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 Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton Description of subject: James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and peer who held one of Scotland’s premier dukedoms and played a prominent role in the aristocratic and political life of his time.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Douglas Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton