Thomas Maitland
E442844
Thomas Maitland was a British military officer and colonial administrator, notably serving as Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands and Governor of Malta in the early 19th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Maitland canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4361707 — 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: Thomas Maitland Context triple: [Philhellenes, hasNotableMember, Thomas Maitland]
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A.
Richard Lumsden
Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
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B.
Sir William Martin
Sir William Martin was a 19th-century British-born jurist who became a foundational figure in New Zealand’s legal system and an influential advocate for Māori rights.
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C.
Walter Stirling
Walter Stirling was the father of the renowned Scottish mathematician James Stirling, known for his work in analysis and Stirling's approximation.
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D.
Richard Bancroft
Richard Bancroft was an influential English churchman and Archbishop of Canterbury who played a key role in overseeing the production of the King James Bible.
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E.
Montague Dartie
Montague Dartie is a fictional, pleasure-seeking and financially irresponsible member of the extended Forsyte family in John Galsworthy’s novel "The Man of Property."
- 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: Thomas Maitland Target entity description: Thomas Maitland was a British military officer and colonial administrator, notably serving as Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands and Governor of Malta in the early 19th century.
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A.
Richard Lumsden
Richard Lumsden is a British actor, writer, and composer known for his work in television, film, and theatre.
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B.
Sir William Martin
Sir William Martin was a 19th-century British-born jurist who became a foundational figure in New Zealand’s legal system and an influential advocate for Māori rights.
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C.
Walter Stirling
Walter Stirling was the father of the renowned Scottish mathematician James Stirling, known for his work in analysis and Stirling's approximation.
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D.
Richard Bancroft
Richard Bancroft was an influential English churchman and Archbishop of Canterbury who played a key role in overseeing the production of the King James Bible.
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E.
Montague Dartie
Montague Dartie is a fictional, pleasure-seeking and financially irresponsible member of the extended Forsyte family in John Galsworthy’s novel "The Man of Property."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British Army officer
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British colonial administrator ⓘ human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of Great Britain
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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland ⓘ |
| familyName | Maitland ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas ⓘ |
| honorificTitle | Sir ⓘ |
| memberOf | British Army ⓘ |
| militaryRank | general ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Lord ⓘ |
| notableFor |
governorship of Malta
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office of Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands ⓘ
linked to:
High Commissioner for the Ionian Islands
role in British administration of the Mediterranean colonies in the early 19th century ⓘ |
| notableWork |
establishment of a centralized colonial administration in the Ionian Islands
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implementation of authoritarian constitutional arrangements in the Ionian Islands ⓘ reforms of the Maltese civil administration ⓘ reorganization of the judicial system in Malta ⓘ |
| occupation |
colonial governor
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politician ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Commander-in-Chief of the Ionian Islands
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Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean ⓘ Governor of Ceylon ⓘ Governor of Malta ⓘ Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands ⓘ
linked to:
High Commissioner for the Ionian Islands
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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: Thomas Maitland Description of subject: Thomas Maitland was a British military officer and colonial administrator, notably serving as Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands and Governor of Malta in the early 19th century.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.