Craufurd
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Craufurd is an alternative spelling of the surname Crawford, historically borne by several notable Scottish families and individuals.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7471855 — 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: Craufurd Context triple: [Crawford, hasVariant, Craufurd]
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A.
Cleghorn
Cleghorn is a residential neighborhood within the city of Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
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B.
Colquhoun
Colquhoun is a Scottish surname and Highland clan name historically associated with Clan Grant as one of its septs.
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C.
Dugald
Dugald is a masculine given name of Scottish origin, historically associated with figures such as the philosopher Dugald Stewart.
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D.
Moncrieff
Moncrieff is a residential suburb in the Gungahlin district of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
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E.
Ewart
Ewart is a given name notably borne by the 19th-century British statesman William Ewart Gladstone.
- 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: Craufurd Target entity description: Craufurd is an alternative spelling of the surname Crawford, historically borne by several notable Scottish families and individuals.
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A.
Cleghorn
Cleghorn is a residential neighborhood within the city of Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
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B.
Colquhoun
Colquhoun is a Scottish surname and Highland clan name historically associated with Clan Grant as one of its septs.
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C.
Dugald
Dugald is a masculine given name of Scottish origin, historically associated with figures such as the philosopher Dugald Stewart.
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D.
Moncrieff
Moncrieff is a residential suburb in the Gungahlin district of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.
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E.
Ewart
Ewart is a given name notably borne by the 19th-century British statesman William Ewart Gladstone.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
ⓘ
baronetcy ⓘ person ⓘ surname ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeForm | Crawford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCategory |
English-language surnames
ⓘ
Scottish surnames ⓘ Surnames of Scottish origin ⓘ |
| hasCountry | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasCountryOfCitizenship |
Scotland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasCountryOfOrigin | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasDateOfBirth |
1743
ⓘ
1761 ⓘ 1764 ⓘ |
| hasDateOfDeath |
1812
ⓘ
1819 ⓘ 1821 ⓘ |
| hasEtymologicalRelation | Crawford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasFamilyName |
Craufurd
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Craufurd NERFINISHED ⓘ Craufurd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGivenName |
Charles
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Quintin NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalUsageRegion |
Scotland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasLanguageOfOrigin |
English
ⓘ
Scots NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottish Gaelic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNobleFamilyName | Craufurd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableBearer |
Charles Craufurd
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Quintin Craufurd NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Craufurd NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableFamily | Clan Crawford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableTitle | Craufurd baronets NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isUsedAs | familyName ⓘ |
| isVariantSpellingOf | Crawford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Napoleonic Wars
ⓘ
Peninsular War NERFINISHED ⓘ Peninsular War 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: Craufurd Description of subject: Craufurd is an alternative spelling of the surname Crawford, historically borne by several notable Scottish families and individuals.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Crighton