William Duff, 1st Earl Fife
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William Duff, 1st Earl Fife, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and landowner who rose to prominence through wealth and political influence in northeast Scotland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Duff, 1st Earl Fife canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9174476 — 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: William Duff, 1st Earl Fife Context triple: [Duff House, commissionedBy, William Duff, 1st Earl Fife]
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A.
Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife
Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife, was a Scottish nobleman who became the first Duke of Fife and gained prominence through his marriage to Princess Louise, the eldest daughter of King Edward VII.
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B.
James Duff, 5th Earl Fife
James Duff, 5th Earl Fife, was a Scottish nobleman and peer who held the earldom of Fife in the 19th century and was part of a prominent aristocratic family later connected to the British royal family.
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C.
George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton
George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and professional soldier who served prominently in the French and later the English armies under King Charles II.
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D.
Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny
Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny, was a 19th-century British Liberal politician and heir to the Rosebery earldom who served as a Member of Parliament and predeceased his father, the 5th Earl of Rosebery.
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E.
Lord Scott of Buccleuch
Lord Scott of Buccleuch is a Scottish noble title associated with the influential Montagu Douglas Scott aristocratic family, historically linked to the Dukes of Buccleuch.
- 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: William Duff, 1st Earl Fife Target entity description: William Duff, 1st Earl Fife, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and landowner who rose to prominence through wealth and political influence in northeast Scotland.
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A.
Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife
Alexander Duff, 6th Earl Fife, was a Scottish nobleman who became the first Duke of Fife and gained prominence through his marriage to Princess Louise, the eldest daughter of King Edward VII.
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B.
James Duff, 5th Earl Fife
James Duff, 5th Earl Fife, was a Scottish nobleman and peer who held the earldom of Fife in the 19th century and was part of a prominent aristocratic family later connected to the British royal family.
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C.
George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton
George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and professional soldier who served prominently in the French and later the English armies under King Charles II.
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D.
Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny
Archibald Primrose, Lord Dalmeny, was a 19th-century British Liberal politician and heir to the Rosebery earldom who served as a Member of Parliament and predeceased his father, the 5th Earl of Rosebery.
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E.
Lord Scott of Buccleuch
Lord Scott of Buccleuch is a Scottish noble title associated with the influential Montagu Douglas Scott aristocratic family, historically linked to the Dukes of Buccleuch.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish nobleman
ⓘ
human ⓘ landowner ⓘ peer of Great Britain ⓘ |
| architectOfPrincipalResidence | William Adam NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1697-10-28 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Banffshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| built | Duff House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Duff House Mausoleum NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | James Duff, 2nd Earl Fife NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
ⓘ
Scotland ⓘ |
| createdPeerage | Peerage of Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1763-09-30 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 18th century ⓘ |
| father | William Duff of Dipple NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Parliament of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| monarchDuringTenure |
George II of Great Britain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
George III of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Jean Gordon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | William Duff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Duff family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Earl Fife NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEstate |
Duff House estate
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
lands in Banffshire ⓘ |
| notableFor |
political influence in northeast Scotland
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wealth ⓘ |
| occupation |
landowner
ⓘ
politician ⓘ |
| ordinalNumber | 1st Earl Fife NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parliamentaryConstituencyRepresented | Banffshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parliamentaryServiceEnd | 1754 ⓘ |
| parliamentaryServiceStart | 1727 ⓘ |
| peerageTitle |
Baron Braco
NERFINISHED
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Earl Fife NERFINISHED ⓘ Viscount Macduff NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Lord Braco
NERFINISHED
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Member of Parliament of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottish representative peer ⓘ |
| precededBy | William Duff of Braco NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | northeast Scotland ⓘ |
| religion | Church of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Duff House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| spouse | Jean Grant NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleCreatedOn | 1759 ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: William Duff, 1st Earl Fife Description of subject: William Duff, 1st Earl Fife, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and landowner who rose to prominence through wealth and political influence in northeast Scotland.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.