Alexander McDougall
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Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alexander McDougall canonical | 10 |
| Alexander MacDougall | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T194244 — 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: Alexander McDougall Context triple: [Sons of Liberty, notableMember, Alexander McDougall]
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A.
James McGill
James McGill was an 18th–19th century Scottish-Canadian merchant and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of McGill University in Montreal.
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B.
Alexander Legge
Alexander Legge was an American industrialist and executive, notably president of International Harvester, who played a key role in U.S. wartime economic mobilization during World War I.
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C.
James Keir
James Keir was an 18th-century Scottish chemist, industrialist, and member of the influential Lunar Society of Birmingham, known for his contributions to early chemical manufacturing and scientific industry.
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D.
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
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E.
Sir James Douglas
Sir James Douglas was a renowned Scottish knight and military leader of the Wars of Scottish Independence, famed as one of Robert the Bruce’s most trusted commanders.
- 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: Alexander McDougall Target entity description: Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
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A.
James McGill
James McGill was an 18th–19th century Scottish-Canadian merchant and philanthropist whose endowment led to the creation of McGill University in Montreal.
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B.
Alexander Legge
Alexander Legge was an American industrialist and executive, notably president of International Harvester, who played a key role in U.S. wartime economic mobilization during World War I.
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C.
James Keir
James Keir was an 18th-century Scottish chemist, industrialist, and member of the influential Lunar Society of Birmingham, known for his contributions to early chemical manufacturing and scientific industry.
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D.
Garth Stevenson
Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
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E.
Sir James Douglas
Sir James Douglas was a renowned Scottish knight and military leader of the Wars of Scottish Independence, famed as one of Robert the Bruce’s most trusted commanders.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
merchant
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ patriot leader ⓘ person ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Sons of Liberty ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1732-03-26 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Islay
ⓘ
surface form:
Isle of Islay, Argyll, Scotland
|
| burialPlace |
Trinity Church Cemetery
ⓘ
surface form:
Trinity Churchyard, New York City
|
| causeOfDeath | illness ⓘ |
| commanded | Highlands Department of the Continental Army ⓘ |
| conflict | American Revolutionary War ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Great Britain
ⓘ
United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1786-06-08 ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Scottish ⓘ |
| founded | Bank of New York ⓘ |
| immigratedTo | Province of New York ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Second Continental Congress
ⓘ
surface form:
Continental Congress
New York Provincial Congress ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Continental Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank |
brigadier general
ⓘ
major general ⓘ |
| movement |
American Revolutionary era
ⓘ
surface form:
American Revolution
|
| name | Alexander McDougall self-link ⓘ |
| notableFor |
opposition to British colonial policies
ⓘ
patriot leadership in New York before and during the American Revolution ⓘ service as a general in the Continental Army ⓘ |
| occupation |
merchant
ⓘ
military officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| parentOf |
Mary McDougall
ⓘ
surface form:
Anne McDougall
Catherine McDougall ⓘ John McDougall ⓘ Mary McDougall ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Patriot ⓘ |
| politicalRegion |
Province of New York
ⓘ
U.S. state of New York ⓘ
surface form:
State of New York
|
| positionHeld |
delegate to the Continental Congress
ⓘ
first president of the Bank of New York ⓘ member of the New York State Senate ⓘ |
| religion | Presbyterianism ⓘ |
| residence | New York City ⓘ |
| servedUnder | George Washington ⓘ |
| spouse | Elizabeth Platt ⓘ |
| wasImprisonedFor | publishing a political pamphlet critical of the New York Assembly ⓘ |
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: Alexander McDougall Description of subject: Alexander McDougall was a Scottish-born American merchant, political leader, and Revolutionary War officer who became a prominent patriot voice in New York before and during the American Revolution.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Alexander MacDougall
this entity surface form:
Alexander MacDougall