1st Viscount Waverley
E180138
British politician
civil servant
hereditary title
human
peer
title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
1st Viscount Waverley was the British peerage title held by Sir John Anderson, a prominent civil servant and politician who served as Home Secretary and played a key role in British civil defense during World War II.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley | 3 |
| 1st Viscount Waverley canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1164966 — 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: 1st Viscount Waverley Context triple: [Sir John Anderson, title, 1st Viscount Waverley]
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A.
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, was a prominent Scottish soldier and statesman who played a key role in suppressing the Jacobite rising of 1715 and served in high military and political office under the British crown.
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B.
John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll
John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman, soldier, and Whig politician who held high military command and significant influence in British public life.
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C.
Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll
Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll was an influential early 18th-century Scottish nobleman, soldier, and Whig politician who played a key role in British military and political affairs after the 1707 Union.
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D.
Marquess of Abercorn
The Marquess of Abercorn is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Great Britain held by a prominent aristocratic family historically associated with substantial estates in Britain and Ireland.
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E.
John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll
John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who held high offices in Britain, including serving as a field marshal and a prominent Whig statesman.
- 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: 1st Viscount Waverley Target entity description: 1st Viscount Waverley was the British peerage title held by Sir John Anderson, a prominent civil servant and politician who served as Home Secretary and played a key role in British civil defense during World War II.
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A.
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, was a prominent Scottish soldier and statesman who played a key role in suppressing the Jacobite rising of 1715 and served in high military and political office under the British crown.
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B.
John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll
John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman, soldier, and Whig politician who held high military command and significant influence in British public life.
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C.
Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll
Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll was an influential early 18th-century Scottish nobleman, soldier, and Whig politician who played a key role in British military and political affairs after the 1707 Union.
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D.
Marquess of Abercorn
The Marquess of Abercorn is a hereditary title in the Peerage of Great Britain held by a prominent aristocratic family historically associated with substantial estates in Britain and Ireland.
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E.
John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll
John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who held high offices in Britain, including serving as a field marshal and a prominent Whig statesman.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: 1st Viscount Waverley Description of subject: 1st Viscount Waverley was the British peerage title held by Sir John Anderson, a prominent civil servant and politician who served as Home Secretary and played a key role in British civil defense during World War II.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Anderson shelters
linked to: 1st Viscount Waverley
linked to: 1st Viscount Waverley
linked to: 1st Viscount Waverley
subject linked to:
1st Viscount Waverley