Nigel Forbes, 22nd Lord Forbes
E482395
Nigel Forbes, 22nd Lord Forbes, was a Scottish peer and soldier who served as a senior British Army officer and later as a representative peer in the House of Lords.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Nigel Forbes, 22nd Lord Forbes canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4836870 — 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: Nigel Forbes, 22nd Lord Forbes Context triple: [Forbes family, notableMember, Nigel Forbes, 22nd Lord Forbes]
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A.
Walter Forbes, 19th Lord Forbes
Walter Forbes, 19th Lord Forbes, was a Scottish peer who held the premier lordship of Scotland as head of the historic Forbes family in the 19th century.
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B.
James Forbes, 17th Lord Forbes
James Forbes, 17th Lord Forbes, was a Scottish nobleman and peer who held the chiefship of Clan Forbes in the 18th century.
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C.
Alexander Forbes, 1st Lord Forbes
Alexander Forbes, 1st Lord Forbes, was a 15th-century Scottish nobleman and soldier who became the first peer of the influential Forbes family and played a prominent role in the politics and warfare of his time.
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D.
William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus
William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus, was a prominent 16th-century Scottish nobleman and powerful magnate of the Douglas family who played a significant role in the turbulent politics of the reign of James V of Scotland.
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E.
William Graham, 9th Earl of Menteith
William Graham, 9th Earl of Menteith, was a Scottish nobleman of the early 17th century who held significant regional power and influence in the central Highlands.
- 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: Nigel Forbes, 22nd Lord Forbes Target entity description: Nigel Forbes, 22nd Lord Forbes, was a Scottish peer and soldier who served as a senior British Army officer and later as a representative peer in the House of Lords.
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A.
Walter Forbes, 19th Lord Forbes
Walter Forbes, 19th Lord Forbes, was a Scottish peer who held the premier lordship of Scotland as head of the historic Forbes family in the 19th century.
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B.
James Forbes, 17th Lord Forbes
James Forbes, 17th Lord Forbes, was a Scottish nobleman and peer who held the chiefship of Clan Forbes in the 18th century.
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C.
Alexander Forbes, 1st Lord Forbes
Alexander Forbes, 1st Lord Forbes, was a 15th-century Scottish nobleman and soldier who became the first peer of the influential Forbes family and played a prominent role in the politics and warfare of his time.
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D.
William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus
William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus, was a prominent 16th-century Scottish nobleman and powerful magnate of the Douglas family who played a significant role in the turbulent politics of the reign of James V of Scotland.
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E.
William Graham, 9th Earl of Menteith
William Graham, 9th Earl of Menteith, was a Scottish nobleman of the early 17th century who held significant regional power and influence in the central Highlands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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Scottish peer ⓘ human ⓘ member of the House of Lords ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
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United Kingdom ⓘ |
| familyName | Forbes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Nigel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Clan Forbes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Lord Forbes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitleNumber | 22nd Lord Forbes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a senior British Army officer
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serving as a representative peer in the House of Lords ⓘ |
| occupation |
politician
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soldier ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
member of the House of Lords
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representative peer ⓘ |
| titleHeld | Lord Forbes 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: Nigel Forbes, 22nd Lord Forbes Description of subject: Nigel Forbes, 22nd Lord Forbes, was a Scottish peer and soldier who served as a senior British Army officer and later as a representative peer in the House of Lords.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.