Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat
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Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat was a Scottish Jacobite nobleman and clan chief, famously executed for treason after the 1745 Jacobite Rising and remembered as the last man to be publicly beheaded in Britain.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lord Lovat | 4 |
| Fraser of Lovat | 1 |
| Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10785258 — 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: Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat Context triple: [Fraser, hasNotableBearer, Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat]
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A.
George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly
George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, was a powerful 16th-century Scottish nobleman and statesman who served as a leading figure in the politics of the Scottish Highlands and at the court of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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B.
James Graham, 3rd Marquess of Montrose
James Graham, 3rd Marquess of Montrose was a Scottish nobleman and politician of the early 18th century who held high offices and influence within the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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C.
James Graham, 2nd Marquess of Montrose
James Graham, 2nd Marquess of Montrose was a Scottish nobleman and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who inherited the Montrose title and estates and sat in the Parliament of Scotland.
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D.
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and brilliant military commander famed for his daring campaigns for King Charles I during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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E.
John Graham, 4th Earl of Montrose
John Graham, 4th Earl of Montrose, was a Scottish nobleman of the influential Graham family who held the earldom of Montrose in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
- 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: Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat Target entity description: Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat was a Scottish Jacobite nobleman and clan chief, famously executed for treason after the 1745 Jacobite Rising and remembered as the last man to be publicly beheaded in Britain.
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A.
George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly
George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, was a powerful 16th-century Scottish nobleman and statesman who served as a leading figure in the politics of the Scottish Highlands and at the court of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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B.
James Graham, 3rd Marquess of Montrose
James Graham, 3rd Marquess of Montrose was a Scottish nobleman and politician of the early 18th century who held high offices and influence within the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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C.
James Graham, 2nd Marquess of Montrose
James Graham, 2nd Marquess of Montrose was a Scottish nobleman and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who inherited the Montrose title and estates and sat in the Parliament of Scotland.
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D.
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose, was a 17th-century Scottish nobleman and brilliant military commander famed for his daring campaigns for King Charles I during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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E.
John Graham, 4th Earl of Montrose
John Graham, 4th Earl of Montrose, was a Scottish nobleman of the influential Graham family who held the earldom of Montrose in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Jacobite
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Scottish nobleman ⓘ clan chief ⓘ executed person ⓘ |
| allegiance | Jacobite cause NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Tower of London (likely Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | treason conviction ⓘ |
| child | Simon Fraser of Lovat (Master of Lovat) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| convictedOf | high treason ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1667-01-01 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1747-04-09 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| executionSite | Tower Hill, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Fraser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fullName | Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Simon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalReputation | notorious for duplicity and shifting loyalties ⓘ |
| involvedIn |
Jacobite Rising of 1715
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jacobite Rising of 1745 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
advanced age at time of execution
ⓘ
political intrigue between Jacobites and British government ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
English
ⓘ
Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| legalStatusOfTitleAfterDeath | forfeited ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution by beheading ⓘ |
| memberOf | Clan Fraser of Lovat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| monarchDuringDeath | George II NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nickname | The Old Fox NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Lord Lovat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | impeachment and trial in Westminster Hall, 1746–1747 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the last man to be publicly beheaded in Britain
ⓘ
participation in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 ⓘ |
| parent | Thomas Fraser of Beaufort NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| peerage | Peerage of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Beaufort Castle, Inverness-shire, Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Tower Hill, London, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedAs | “The Old Fox” NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| portrayedIn | Outlander (television series) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Beaufort Castle, Inverness-shire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Margaret Grant
NERFINISHED
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Primrose Campbell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleRestored | Lord Lovat NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| trialHeldBy | House of Lords 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: Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat Description of subject: Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat was a Scottish Jacobite nobleman and clan chief, famously executed for treason after the 1745 Jacobite Rising and remembered as the last man to be publicly beheaded in Britain.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lord Lovat
this entity surface form:
Lord Lovat
this entity surface form:
Fraser of Lovat
this entity surface form:
Lord Lovat
this entity surface form:
Lord Lovat