Thomas Crawford of Jordanhill
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Thomas Crawford of Jordanhill was a 16th-century Scottish soldier and laird best known for his role in the capture of Dumbarton Castle during the Marian civil war.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Crawford of Jordanhill canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7471887 — 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: Thomas Crawford of Jordanhill Context triple: [Crawford, hasNotableBearer, Thomas Crawford of Jordanhill]
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A.
Edward Blount
Edward Blount was a prominent early 17th-century London stationer and publisher best known for co-publishing Shakespeare’s First Folio.
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B.
Henry Taylor
Henry Taylor was a British freestyle swimmer and multiple Olympic gold medalist in the early 20th century.
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C.
James Gillett
James Gillett was an early 20th-century American politician who served as the 22nd governor of California from 1907 to 1911.
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D.
Charles Siddall
Charles Siddall was a family member of the Pre-Raphaelite-associated artist and poet Elizabeth Siddal, belonging to the same Victorian-era Siddall/Siddall family circle.
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E.
Henry McNish
Henry McNish was a skilled Scottish ship's carpenter best known for his crucial role in modifying the lifeboats that enabled Ernest Shackleton’s crew to survive and escape during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
- 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: Thomas Crawford of Jordanhill Target entity description: Thomas Crawford of Jordanhill was a 16th-century Scottish soldier and laird best known for his role in the capture of Dumbarton Castle during the Marian civil war.
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A.
Edward Blount
Edward Blount was a prominent early 17th-century London stationer and publisher best known for co-publishing Shakespeare’s First Folio.
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B.
Henry Taylor
Henry Taylor was a British freestyle swimmer and multiple Olympic gold medalist in the early 20th century.
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C.
James Gillett
James Gillett was an early 20th-century American politician who served as the 22nd governor of California from 1907 to 1911.
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D.
Charles Siddall
Charles Siddall was a family member of the Pre-Raphaelite-associated artist and poet Elizabeth Siddal, belonging to the same Victorian-era Siddall/Siddall family circle.
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E.
Henry McNish
Henry McNish was a skilled Scottish ship's carpenter best known for his crucial role in modifying the lifeboats that enabled Ernest Shackleton’s crew to survive and escape during the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish laird
ⓘ
Scottish soldier ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Dumbarton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Glasgow NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| captured | Dumbarton Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| captureOfDumbartonCastleDate | 1571 ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 16th century ⓘ |
| conflict | Marian civil war NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Scottish Reformation era ⓘ |
| loyalty |
James VI of Scotland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Regent James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Scottish forces loyal to the Regent ⓘ |
| militaryRank | captain ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Crawford family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | night assault on Dumbarton Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | capture of Dumbarton Castle ⓘ |
| occupation |
landowner
ⓘ
soldier ⓘ |
| opposedFaction | supporters of Mary, Queen of Scots ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Marian civil war NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | laird of Jordanhill NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Lowlands of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence |
Jordanhill
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
near Glasgow ⓘ |
| resultOfAction | Dumbarton Castle taken for the king’s party ⓘ |
| supportedFaction | Regent Moray and the king’s party ⓘ |
| usedTactic | surprise escalade of castle walls ⓘ |
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: Thomas Crawford of Jordanhill Description of subject: Thomas Crawford of Jordanhill was a 16th-century Scottish soldier and laird best known for his role in the capture of Dumbarton Castle during the Marian civil war.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.