Iain Alexander Douglas Blair Cochrane, 14th Earl of Dundonald
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Iain Alexander Douglas Blair Cochrane, 14th Earl of Dundonald, is a Scottish hereditary peer and current holder of the historic Dundonald earldom in the Peerage of Scotland.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Iain Alexander Douglas Blair Cochrane, 14th Earl of Dundonald canonical | 1 |
| Iain Alexander Douglas Blair Cochrane, 15th Earl of Dundonald | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11567990 — 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: Iain Alexander Douglas Blair Cochrane, 14th Earl of Dundonald Context triple: [Earl of Dundonald, hasTitleHolder, Iain Alexander Douglas Blair Cochrane, 14th Earl of Dundonald]
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Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald
Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald, was a British Army general and Scottish nobleman known for his military service during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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William Cochrane, 7th Earl of Dundonald
William Cochrane, 7th Earl of Dundonald, was a Scottish nobleman of the Cochrane family who held a peerage title in the early 18th century.
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William Cochrane, 5th Earl of Dundonald
William Cochrane, 5th Earl of Dundonald, was a Scottish nobleman of the Cochrane family who held a peerage in the Kingdom of Scotland during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald
Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and inventor noted for his pioneering work in industrial chemistry, particularly in the production of coal tar and related innovations.
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E.
Thomas Hesketh Douglas Blair Cochrane, 13th Earl of Dundonald
Thomas Hesketh Douglas Blair Cochrane, 13th Earl of Dundonald, was a Scottish nobleman and peer who succeeded to the Dundonald earldom in the early 20th century.
- 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: Iain Alexander Douglas Blair Cochrane, 14th Earl of Dundonald Target entity description: Iain Alexander Douglas Blair Cochrane, 14th Earl of Dundonald, is a Scottish hereditary peer and current holder of the historic Dundonald earldom in the Peerage of Scotland.
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A.
Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald
Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald, was a British Army general and Scottish nobleman known for his military service during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
William Cochrane, 7th Earl of Dundonald
William Cochrane, 7th Earl of Dundonald, was a Scottish nobleman of the Cochrane family who held a peerage title in the early 18th century.
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C.
William Cochrane, 5th Earl of Dundonald
William Cochrane, 5th Earl of Dundonald, was a Scottish nobleman of the Cochrane family who held a peerage in the Kingdom of Scotland during the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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D.
Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald
Archibald Cochrane, 9th Earl of Dundonald, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and inventor noted for his pioneering work in industrial chemistry, particularly in the production of coal tar and related innovations.
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E.
Thomas Hesketh Douglas Blair Cochrane, 13th Earl of Dundonald
Thomas Hesketh Douglas Blair Cochrane, 13th Earl of Dundonald, was a Scottish nobleman and peer who succeeded to the Dundonald earldom in the early 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (12)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
Scottish hereditary peer
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human ⓘ member of the Scottish nobility ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Scotland ⓘ |
| holdsTitle | Earl of Dundonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Iain Alexander Douglas Blair Cochrane NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Cochrane family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | 14th Earl of Dundonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the current holder of the historic Dundonald earldom in the Peerage of Scotland ⓘ |
| peerage | Peerage of Scotland ⓘ |
| titleIsHereditary | Earl of Dundonald NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleStatus | current holder of the Earldom of Dundonald ⓘ |
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: Iain Alexander Douglas Blair Cochrane, 14th Earl of Dundonald Description of subject: Iain Alexander Douglas Blair Cochrane, 14th Earl of Dundonald, is a Scottish hereditary peer and current holder of the historic Dundonald earldom in the Peerage of Scotland.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Earl of Dundonald
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hasTitleHolder
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Iain Alexander Douglas Blair Cochrane, 14th Earl of Dundonald
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Earl of Dundonald
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hasTitleHolder
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Iain Alexander Douglas Blair Cochrane, 14th Earl of Dundonald
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this entity surface form:
Iain Alexander Douglas Blair Cochrane, 15th Earl of Dundonald