1st Earl of Stockton
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The 1st Earl of Stockton is the hereditary peerage title granted to Harold Macmillan, the former British Prime Minister who led the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 1st Earl of Stockton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4777397 — 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: 1st Earl of Stockton Context triple: [Harold Macmillan, title, 1st Earl of Stockton]
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A.
Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby
Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby, was an 18th–19th century British peer and politician who served as a prominent member of the Whig party and held various influential public offices.
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B.
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, was a 19th-century British Conservative statesman who served three times as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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C.
Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby
Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby was a prominent 16th-century English nobleman and politician who served as Lord High Steward and played a key role in the court of Henry VIII.
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D.
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst was a prominent British Tory politician and statesman who served as Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State for War and the Colonies during the early 19th century.
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E.
William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby
William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, was an English nobleman and patron of the arts in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, sometimes speculatively linked to authorship theories surrounding Shakespeare's works.
- 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: 1st Earl of Stockton Target entity description: The 1st Earl of Stockton is the hereditary peerage title granted to Harold Macmillan, the former British Prime Minister who led the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.
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A.
Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby
Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby, was an 18th–19th century British peer and politician who served as a prominent member of the Whig party and held various influential public offices.
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B.
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby
Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, was a 19th-century British Conservative statesman who served three times as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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C.
Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby
Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby was a prominent 16th-century English nobleman and politician who served as Lord High Steward and played a key role in the court of Henry VIII.
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D.
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst
Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst was a prominent British Tory politician and statesman who served as Foreign Secretary and Secretary of State for War and the Colonies during the early 19th century.
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E.
William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby
William Stanley, 6th Earl of Derby, was an English nobleman and patron of the arts in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, sometimes speculatively linked to authorship theories surrounding Shakespeare's works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British prime minister
ⓘ
Earl in the Peerage of the United Kingdom ⓘ hereditary peer ⓘ human ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pneumonia ⓘ |
| child | Maurice Macmillan, Viscount Macmillan of Ovenden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
World War I
ⓘ
surface form:
First World War
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
United Kingdom
ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ
surface form:
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
|
| dateOfBirth | 1894-02-10 ⓘ |
| dateOfCreationOfTitle | 1984-02-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1986-12-29 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Balliol College, Oxford
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Eton College ⓘ |
| father | Maurice Macmillan (publisher) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grantedTitle | Earl of Stockton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | The Right Honourable ⓘ |
| knownFor |
decolonisation of Africa
ⓘ
post-war economic policy in the UK ⓘ |
| memberOf |
House of Commons of the United Kingdom
ⓘ
House of Lords ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| monarchDuringTerm | Elizabeth II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Helen Artie Tarleton Belles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Maurice Harold Macmillan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork | Winds of Change speech NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parliamentaryConstituencyRepresented |
Bromley
NERFINISHED
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Stockton-on-Tees NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peerage | Peerage of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Belgravia, London, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Birch Grove, Chelwood Gate, East Sussex, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Conservative Party (UK) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chancellor of the Exchequer
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Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ Member of Parliament ⓘ Minister of Defence ⓘ Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ⓘ Secretary of State for Housing and Local Government NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Anthony Eden NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Anglicanism ⓘ |
| residence |
10 Downing Street, London
NERFINISHED
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Birch Grove, East Sussex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| seatOfTitle | Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Lady Dorothy Cavendish NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Alec Douglas-Home NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| termEnd | 1963-10-18 ⓘ |
| termStart | 1957-01-10 ⓘ |
| title | 1st Earl of Stockton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: 1st Earl of Stockton Description of subject: The 1st Earl of Stockton is the hereditary peerage title granted to Harold Macmillan, the former British Prime Minister who led the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963.
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.