David Bowes-Lyon
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David Bowes-Lyon was a British aristocrat and member of the extended royal family, notable as an uncle of Queen Elizabeth II.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David Bowes-Lyon canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7301403 — 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: David Bowes-Lyon Context triple: [Fergus Bowes-Lyon, sibling, David Bowes-Lyon]
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A.
Claude George Bowes-Lyon
Claude George Bowes-Lyon was a British nobleman and landowner best known as the father of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II.
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B.
Fergus Bowes-Lyon
Fergus Bowes-Lyon was a Scottish aristocrat and military officer from the Bowes-Lyon family, best known as a member of the extended British royal family.
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C.
Ernest Bowes-Lyon
Ernest Bowes-Lyon was a British aristocrat of the Bowes-Lyon family, an uncle of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth II.
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D.
Alexander Bowes-Lyon
Alexander Bowes-Lyon was a member of the British aristocratic Bowes-Lyon family, related to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
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E.
Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was a British aristocrat best known as the mother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.
- 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: David Bowes-Lyon Target entity description: David Bowes-Lyon was a British aristocrat and member of the extended royal family, notable as an uncle of Queen Elizabeth II.
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A.
Claude George Bowes-Lyon
Claude George Bowes-Lyon was a British nobleman and landowner best known as the father of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and maternal grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II.
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B.
Fergus Bowes-Lyon
Fergus Bowes-Lyon was a Scottish aristocrat and military officer from the Bowes-Lyon family, best known as a member of the extended British royal family.
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C.
Ernest Bowes-Lyon
Ernest Bowes-Lyon was a British aristocrat of the Bowes-Lyon family, an uncle of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and great-uncle of Queen Elizabeth II.
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D.
Alexander Bowes-Lyon
Alexander Bowes-Lyon was a member of the British aristocratic Bowes-Lyon family, related to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
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E.
Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne
Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, was a British aristocrat best known as the mother of Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and grandmother of Queen Elizabeth II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (40)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British aristocrat
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human ⓘ member of the extended British royal family ⓘ |
| awardReceived | Commander of the Royal Victorian Order NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1902-05-02 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Wooler, Northumberland, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict | World War I ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1961-09-13 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Birkhall, Aberdeenshire, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | Eton College ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | British ⓘ |
| familyName | Bowes-Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Claude Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | The Hon. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | House of Bowes-Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| mother | Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Bowes-Lyon family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAs | uncle of Queen Elizabeth II ⓘ |
| notableFamilyConnection | maternal uncle of Queen Elizabeth II ⓘ |
| occupation |
courtier
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landowner ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elizabeth II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Church of England ⓘ |
| residence | St Paul’s Walden Bury, Hertfordshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sibling |
Alexander Bowes-Lyon
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ Fergus Bowes-Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ John Bowes-Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ Katherine Bowes-Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ Michael Bowes-Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ Nerissa Bowes-Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ Patrick Bowes-Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ Rose Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uncleOf | Elizabeth II 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: David Bowes-Lyon Description of subject: David Bowes-Lyon was a British aristocrat and member of the extended royal family, notable as an uncle of Queen Elizabeth II.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.