Robert Dundas Duncan
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Robert Dundas Duncan was the son of British Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, and a member of the British aristocracy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert Dundas Duncan canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9272295 — 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: Robert Dundas Duncan Context triple: [Adam Duncan, child, Robert Dundas Duncan]
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A.
George Grant Elmslie
George Grant Elmslie was an influential American architect associated with the Prairie School movement, known for his richly ornamented designs and collaborations with Louis Sullivan.
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B.
Robert Heriot Barclay
Robert Heriot Barclay was a British Royal Navy officer best known for leading the outnumbered British squadron against Oliver Hazard Perry’s forces during the War of 1812.
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C.
Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott
Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott was a prominent British architect and designer associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, known for his innovative house designs and interior furnishings around the turn of the 20th century.
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D.
Sir Malcolm Murray
Sir Malcolm Murray is a fictional Victorian-era explorer and aristocrat who serves as a central character in the horror drama television series "Penny Dreadful."
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E.
Thomas Urquhart
Thomas Urquhart was a 17th-century Scottish writer, translator, and eccentric known for his elaborate prose and early English translation of Rabelais.
- 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: Robert Dundas Duncan Target entity description: Robert Dundas Duncan was the son of British Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, and a member of the British aristocracy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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A.
George Grant Elmslie
George Grant Elmslie was an influential American architect associated with the Prairie School movement, known for his richly ornamented designs and collaborations with Louis Sullivan.
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B.
Robert Heriot Barclay
Robert Heriot Barclay was a British Royal Navy officer best known for leading the outnumbered British squadron against Oliver Hazard Perry’s forces during the War of 1812.
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C.
Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott
Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott was a prominent British architect and designer associated with the Arts and Crafts movement, known for his innovative house designs and interior furnishings around the turn of the 20th century.
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D.
Sir Malcolm Murray
Sir Malcolm Murray is a fictional Victorian-era explorer and aristocrat who serves as a central character in the horror drama television series "Penny Dreadful."
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E.
Thomas Urquhart
Thomas Urquhart was a 17th-century Scottish writer, translator, and eccentric known for his elaborate prose and early English translation of Rabelais.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British aristocrat
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| familyName | Duncan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatherNobleTitle | 1st Viscount Duncan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatherOccupation | Royal Navy admiral ⓘ |
| givenName |
Dundas
NERFINISHED
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Robert ⓘ |
| memberOf | British aristocracy ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod |
early 19th century
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late 18th century ⓘ |
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: Robert Dundas Duncan Description of subject: Robert Dundas Duncan was the son of British Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan, and a member of the British aristocracy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.