4th Baron Dunglass
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The 4th Baron Dunglass is the hereditary Scottish peerage title once held by Alec Douglas-Home before he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| 4th Baron Dunglass canonical | 1 |
| 5th Baron Dunglass | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2450608 — 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: 4th Baron Dunglass Context triple: [Alec Douglas-Home, positionHeld, 4th Baron Dunglass]
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A.
William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas
William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish nobleman and head of the powerful Douglas family, influential in the politics and aristocracy of Scotland.
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B.
William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas
William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman whose influence and conflicts with the crown played a major role in late medieval Scottish politics.
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C.
James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas
James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman and magnate whose conflict with King James II led to his murder and the downfall of the Black Douglas family.
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D.
James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas
James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish noble whose rebellion against King James II led to the downfall and forfeiture of the once-dominant Black Douglas family.
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E.
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.
- 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: 4th Baron Dunglass Target entity description: The 4th Baron Dunglass is the hereditary Scottish peerage title once held by Alec Douglas-Home before he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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A.
William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas
William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish nobleman and head of the powerful Douglas family, influential in the politics and aristocracy of Scotland.
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B.
William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas
William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman whose influence and conflicts with the crown played a major role in late medieval Scottish politics.
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C.
James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas
James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman and magnate whose conflict with King James II led to his murder and the downfall of the Black Douglas family.
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D.
James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas
James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish noble whose rebellion against King James II led to the downfall and forfeiture of the once-dominant Black Douglas family.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish peerage title
ⓘ
barony ⓘ hereditary title ⓘ |
| associatedWithFamily |
Douglas-Home family
ⓘ
linked to:
Douglas family
|
| associatedWithTitle | Earl of Home ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| heldBy | Alec Douglas-Home ⓘ |
| heldByEnd | 1963 ⓘ |
| heldByStart | 1951 ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| nobleFamily |
Douglas-Home
ⓘ
linked to:
Alec Douglas-Home
|
| nobleRank | Baron ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Renunciation of peerage by Alec Douglas-Home in 1963 ⓘ |
| notableHolder | Alec Douglas-Home ⓘ |
| notableHolderBecame | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| notableHolderPosition |
Foreign Secretary
ⓘ
Leader of the Conservative Party ⓘ |
| partOf | Peerage of Scotland ⓘ |
| peerageType | hereditary peerage ⓘ |
| predecessor | 3rd Baron Dunglass ⓘ |
| successor |
5th Baron Dunglass
ⓘ
linked to:
4th Baron Dunglass
|
| titleHolderSatIn | House of Lords ⓘ |
| titleStyleOf | Alec Douglas-Home ⓘ |
| usedAsCourtesyTitle | yes ⓘ |
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: 4th Baron Dunglass Description of subject: The 4th Baron Dunglass is the hereditary Scottish peerage title once held by Alec Douglas-Home before he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: 4th Baron Dunglass