Duke of Hamilton
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The Duke of Hamilton is the premier ducal title in the Peerage of Scotland, traditionally held by the head of the influential Hamilton family and historically associated with high rank and political prominence in Scottish nobility.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Duke of Hamilton canonical | 70 |
| Duke of Hamilton and Brandon | 5 |
| Duke of Hamilton in the Peerage of Scotland | 1 |
| Scottish peerage title Duke of Hamilton | 1 |
| The Duke of Hamilton | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T109441 — 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: Duke of Hamilton Context triple: [Peerage of Scotland, hasExampleTitle, Duke of Hamilton]
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A.
Duke of Argyll
The Duke of Argyll is a prominent Scottish noble title historically held by the chief of Clan Campbell, long influential in Scottish and British political and social life.
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B.
Duke of Fife
The Duke of Fife is a Scottish noble title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom historically associated with the Carnegie and later the British royal family.
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C.
Duke of Cumberland
The Duke of Cumberland was a British royal prince and military commander known for his controversial leadership in mid-18th-century European and Jacobite conflicts.
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D.
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, was an Anglo-French soldier and illegitimate son of King James II of England who became a prominent marshal in the French army during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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E.
Earl of Southesk
The Earl of Southesk is a Scottish peerage title historically held by the Carnegie family, prominent nobles in Scotland since the early 17th 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: Duke of Hamilton Target entity description: The Duke of Hamilton is the premier ducal title in the Peerage of Scotland, traditionally held by the head of the influential Hamilton family and historically associated with high rank and political prominence in Scottish nobility.
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A.
Duke of Argyll
The Duke of Argyll is a prominent Scottish noble title historically held by the chief of Clan Campbell, long influential in Scottish and British political and social life.
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B.
Duke of Fife
The Duke of Fife is a Scottish noble title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom historically associated with the Carnegie and later the British royal family.
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C.
Duke of Cumberland
The Duke of Cumberland was a British royal prince and military commander known for his controversial leadership in mid-18th-century European and Jacobite conflicts.
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D.
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick
James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick, was an Anglo-French soldier and illegitimate son of King James II of England who became a prominent marshal in the French army during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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E.
Earl of Southesk
The Earl of Southesk is a Scottish peerage title historically held by the Carnegie family, prominent nobles in Scotland since the early 17th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Duke of Hamilton Description of subject: The Duke of Hamilton is the premier ducal title in the Peerage of Scotland, traditionally held by the head of the influential Hamilton family and historically associated with high rank and political prominence in Scottish nobility.
Referenced by (78)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Duke of Hamilton
linked to: Duke of Hamilton
subject linked to:
James Hamilton
subject linked to:
James Hamilton
subject linked to:
James Hamilton
subject linked to:
Duke of Brandon (Peerage of Great Britain)
subject linked to:
Duke of Brandon (Peerage of Great Britain)
subject linked to:
Duke of Brandon (Peerage of Great Britain)
linked to: Duke of Hamilton
subject linked to:
Duke of Brandon (Peerage of Great Britain)
subject linked to:
Archibald Hamilton
subject linked to:
Archibald Hamilton
subject linked to:
Archibald Hamilton
subject linked to:
Douglas Hamilton
linked to: Duke of Hamilton
linked to: Duke of Hamilton
linked to: Duke of Hamilton
linked to: Duke of Hamilton
subject linked to:
Hereditary Keeper of the Palace of Linlithgow (historical association)