John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl
E466557
John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who played a significant role in the turbulent Jacobite and Union-era politics of Scotland.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl canonical | 5 |
| John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl | 2 |
| John Murray, 1st Earl of Atholl | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4722985 — 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: John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl Context triple: [Murray of Tullibardine, notableMember, John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl]
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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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John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl, was an 18th–19th century Scottish peer and politician known for his role in British public life and as a prominent member of the influential Murray family of Atholl.
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John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, is a South African-born Scottish peer known for inheriting the historic Atholl dukedom and its ceremonial command of the Atholl Highlanders, the only legal private army in Europe.
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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 Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl
John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl was a Scottish peer and soldier who served as a senior officer in the British Army and held various ceremonial and public roles in Scotland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- 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: John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl Target entity description: John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who played a significant role in the turbulent Jacobite and Union-era politics of Scotland.
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A.
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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B.
John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl, was an 18th–19th century Scottish peer and politician known for his role in British public life and as a prominent member of the influential Murray family of Atholl.
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C.
John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, is a South African-born Scottish peer known for inheriting the historic Atholl dukedom and its ceremonial command of the Atholl Highlanders, the only legal private army in Europe.
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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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E.
John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl
John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl was a Scottish peer and soldier who served as a senior officer in the British Army and held various ceremonial and public roles in Scotland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jacobite sympathizer
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Scottish nobleman ⓘ human ⓘ peer of Scotland ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| allegiance |
House of Stuart
NERFINISHED
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Kingdom of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1660-02-24 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Tullibardine, Perthshire, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Dunkeld Cathedral NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Charles Murray, 1st Earl of Dunmore
NERFINISHED
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James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl NERFINISHED ⓘ John Murray, 1st Duke of Tullibardine (styled Marquess of Tullibardine) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| clanChiefOf | Clan Murray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| createdDukeBy | Queen Anne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| createdDukeOn | 1703 ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1724-11-14 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | London, England ⓘ |
| father | John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
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Scots ⓘ |
| memberOf | Privy Council of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| monarchServed |
Charles II of England and Scotland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
George I of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ James VII of Scotland and II of England NERFINISHED ⓘ Queen Anne NERFINISHED ⓘ William II of Scotland (William III of England) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Amelia Stanley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | John Murray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Clan Murray NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
1st Duke of Atholl
NERFINISHED
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Earl of Tullibardine NERFINISHED ⓘ Lord Murray of Tullibardine NERFINISHED ⓘ Marquess of Atholl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opposed | aspects of the Acts of Union 1707 ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Jacobite politics in Scotland
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debates over the Acts of Union 1707 ⓘ politics surrounding the Glorious Revolution ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Colonel of the Perthshire Militia
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Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ Lord Justice General of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ Lord Privy Seal of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ Privy Councillor of Scotland ⓘ Sheriff of Perthshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Presbyterian
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surface form:
Presbyterianism
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| spouse |
Katherine Hamilton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mary Ross NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl Description of subject: John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who played a significant role in the turbulent Jacobite and Union-era politics of Scotland.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
John Murray, 1st Earl of Atholl
this entity surface form:
John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl
this entity surface form:
John Murray, 1st Marquess of Atholl