John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl
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John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, is a South African-born Scottish peer known for inheriting the historic Atholl dukedom and its ceremonial command of the Atholl Highlanders, the only legal private army in Europe.
All labels observed (2)
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| John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl canonical | 6 |
| 11th Duke of Atholl | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T826817 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl Context triple: [Atholl family, notableMember, John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl]
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John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl, was an 18th–19th century Scottish peer and politician known for his role in British public life and as a prominent member of the influential Murray family of Atholl.
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John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl, was an 18th-century Scottish peer and politician known for his role in British public life and as a prominent member of the influential Murray family.
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John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl
John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl was a Scottish peer and soldier who served as a senior officer in the British Army and held various ceremonial and public roles in Scotland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl
James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who held high offices including Lord Privy Seal of Scotland and played a significant role in post-Union British politics.
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George Murray, 6th Duke of Atholl
George Murray, 6th Duke of Atholl, was a 19th-century Scottish peer and head of the Murray family who held extensive estates and traditional clan leadership in the Highlands.
- 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: John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl Target entity description: John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, is a South African-born Scottish peer known for inheriting the historic Atholl dukedom and its ceremonial command of the Atholl Highlanders, the only legal private army in Europe.
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John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 4th Duke of Atholl, was an 18th–19th century Scottish peer and politician known for his role in British public life and as a prominent member of the influential Murray family of Atholl.
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B.
John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl, was an 18th-century Scottish peer and politician known for his role in British public life and as a prominent member of the influential Murray family.
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C.
John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl
John Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl was a Scottish peer and soldier who served as a senior officer in the British Army and held various ceremonial and public roles in Scotland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl
James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who held high offices including Lord Privy Seal of Scotland and played a significant role in post-Union British politics.
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George Murray, 6th Duke of Atholl
George Murray, 6th Duke of Atholl, was a 19th-century Scottish peer and head of the Murray family who held extensive estates and traditional clan leadership in the Highlands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl Description of subject: John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, is a South African-born Scottish peer known for inheriting the historic Atholl dukedom and its ceremonial command of the Atholl Highlanders, the only legal private army in Europe.
Referenced by (9)
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