Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone
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Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone was a British army officer, politician, and adventurer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his involvement in financial scandals and controversial political activities.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2055175 — 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: Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone Context triple: [Cochrane, hasNotableBearer, Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone]
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A.
Andrew Cruickshank
Andrew Cruickshank was a Scottish character actor best known for his work in British film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in mid-20th-century historical and dramatic productions.
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B.
David Farquharson
David Farquharson was an architect known for designing South Hall.
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C.
Douglas McPhail
Douglas McPhail was an American singer and actor active in the late 1930s and early 1940s, known for his musical film roles at MGM.
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D.
Peter Mathieson
Peter Mathieson is a British nephrologist and academic leader who has served as principal and vice-chancellor of major universities, including the University of Edinburgh and the University of Hong Kong.
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E.
Stephen MacLean
Stephen MacLean was an Australian screenwriter and filmmaker best known for his work on music-infused films and television, including the cult musical comedy "Starstruck" (1982).
- 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: Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone Target entity description: Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone was a British army officer, politician, and adventurer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his involvement in financial scandals and controversial political activities.
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A.
Andrew Cruickshank
Andrew Cruickshank was a Scottish character actor best known for his work in British film, television, and theatre, including prominent roles in mid-20th-century historical and dramatic productions.
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B.
David Farquharson
David Farquharson was an architect known for designing South Hall.
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C.
Douglas McPhail
Douglas McPhail was an American singer and actor active in the late 1930s and early 1940s, known for his musical film roles at MGM.
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D.
Peter Mathieson
Peter Mathieson is a British nephrologist and academic leader who has served as principal and vice-chancellor of major universities, including the University of Edinburgh and the University of Hong Kong.
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E.
Stephen MacLean
Stephen MacLean was an Australian screenwriter and filmmaker best known for his work on music-infused films and television, including the cult musical comedy "Starstruck" (1982).
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British army officer
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adventurer ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| activePeriod |
early 19th century
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late 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| era |
Georgian era
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Regency era ⓘ |
| familyName | Cochrane-Johnstone ⓘ |
| givenName | Andrew ⓘ |
| hasReputation |
controversial figure in politics
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involvement in financial scandals ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | British Army ⓘ |
| notableCharacteristic | involvement in controversial financial schemes ⓘ |
| notableFor |
controversial political activities
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financial scandals ⓘ |
| occupation |
adventurer
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army officer ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | British political establishment ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity |
British politics
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finance ⓘ military affairs ⓘ |
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: Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone Description of subject: Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone was a British army officer, politician, and adventurer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his involvement in financial scandals and controversial political activities.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.