Alec Douglas-Home
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Alec Douglas-Home was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alec Douglas-Home canonical | 17 |
| Douglas-Home | 5 |
| Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home | 3 |
| Sir Alec Douglas-Home | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T330316 — 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: Alec Douglas-Home Context triple: [Eton College, alumnus, Alec Douglas-Home]
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A.
Edward Heath
Edward Heath was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and led the country into the European Economic Community.
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B.
James Callaghan
James Callaghan was a British Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and held all four of the UK's major offices of state during his career.
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C.
Harold Macmillan
Harold Macmillan was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963, overseeing a period of post-war prosperity and decolonisation.
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D.
Anthony Eden
Anthony Eden was a British Conservative politician and diplomat who served as Foreign Secretary during World War II and later as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957.
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E.
William Hague
William Hague is a British Conservative politician and former Foreign Secretary who also served as Leader of the Opposition and held several senior cabinet posts.
- 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: Alec Douglas-Home Target entity description: Alec Douglas-Home was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964.
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A.
Edward Heath
Edward Heath was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and led the country into the European Economic Community.
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B.
James Callaghan
James Callaghan was a British Labour politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and held all four of the UK's major offices of state during his career.
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C.
Harold Macmillan
Harold Macmillan was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963, overseeing a period of post-war prosperity and decolonisation.
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D.
Anthony Eden
Anthony Eden was a British Conservative politician and diplomat who served as Foreign Secretary during World War II and later as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955 to 1957.
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E.
William Hague
William Hague is a British Conservative politician and former Foreign Secretary who also served as Leader of the Opposition and held several senior cabinet posts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Alec Douglas-Home Description of subject: Alec Douglas-Home was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1963 to 1964.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Alec Douglas-Home
linked to: Alec Douglas-Home
subject linked to:
Alec
linked to: Alec Douglas-Home
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The Hirsel, Coldstream, Scotland
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The Hirsel, Coldstream, Scotland
subject linked to:
The Hirsel, Coldstream, Scotland
linked to: Alec Douglas-Home
subject linked to:
The Way the Wind Blows (memoirs)
subject linked to:
The Way the Wind Blows (memoirs)
subject linked to:
14th Earl of Home
linked to: Alec Douglas-Home
subject linked to:
14th Earl of Home
linked to: Alec Douglas-Home
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enabled Alec Douglas-Home to sit in the House of Commons as Prime Minister
linked to: Alec Douglas-Home
linked to: Alec Douglas-Home
linked to: Alec Douglas-Home