Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale
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Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent 13th-century Scottish noble and claimant to the Scottish throne whose lineage led directly to King Robert the Bruce.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale canonical | 13 |
| Robert Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale | 4 |
| Robert de Brus, Lord of Annandale | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T812305 — 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: Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale Context triple: [House of Bruce, hasPart, Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale]
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Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and feudal lord whose lineage and claims to the Scottish throne paved the way for his son, Robert the Bruce, to become King of Scots.
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Edward Bruce
Edward Bruce was a Scottish nobleman and military leader, brother of King Robert the Bruce, who played a key role in the Wars of Scottish Independence and briefly reigned as High King of Ireland.
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James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Douglas
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Douglas was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and peer whose death without direct heirs led to the famous Douglas Cause inheritance dispute.
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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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James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton
James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, was a powerful 16th-century Scottish nobleman who served as Regent of Scotland during the minority of King James VI and played a central role in the turbulent politics following Mary, Queen of Scots’ abdication.
- 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: Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale Target entity description: Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent 13th-century Scottish noble and claimant to the Scottish throne whose lineage led directly to King Robert the Bruce.
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A.
Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and feudal lord whose lineage and claims to the Scottish throne paved the way for his son, Robert the Bruce, to become King of Scots.
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B.
Edward Bruce
Edward Bruce was a Scottish nobleman and military leader, brother of King Robert the Bruce, who played a key role in the Wars of Scottish Independence and briefly reigned as High King of Ireland.
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C.
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Douglas
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Douglas was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and peer whose death without direct heirs led to the famous Douglas Cause inheritance dispute.
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D.
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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E.
James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton
James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, was a powerful 16th-century Scottish nobleman who served as Regent of Scotland during the minority of King James VI and played a central role in the turbulent politics following Mary, Queen of Scots’ abdication.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale Description of subject: Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent 13th-century Scottish noble and claimant to the Scottish throne whose lineage led directly to King Robert the Bruce.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Scottish succession crisis of 1290–1292
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