Walter fitz Alan
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Walter fitz Alan was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman who became the first hereditary High Steward of Scotland and progenitor of the royal Stewart (Stuart) dynasty.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter fitz Alan canonical | 7 |
| Walter fitz Alan and his descendants | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1017902 — 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: Walter fitz Alan Context triple: [Stewart family, founder, Walter fitz Alan]
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A.
William of Hatfield
William of Hatfield was a short-lived English prince of the 14th century, one of the younger sons of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault.
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B.
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, was a renowned Anglo-Norman knight and statesman who served multiple English kings and became one of medieval England’s most powerful and respected magnates.
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C.
Robert Fitzwalter
Robert Fitzwalter was a prominent English baron and rebel leader in the early 13th century, known for his key role in opposing King John and helping to bring about Magna Carta.
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D.
Roger de Montgomery
Roger de Montgomery was an 11th-century Norman nobleman and close ally of William the Conqueror who became Earl of Shrewsbury and a major landholder in post-Conquest England.
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E.
Hubert de Burgh
Hubert de Burgh was a prominent early 13th-century English nobleman and royal official who rose to become Justiciar of England and a key supporter of King John and the young Henry III.
- 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: Walter fitz Alan Target entity description: Walter fitz Alan was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman who became the first hereditary High Steward of Scotland and progenitor of the royal Stewart (Stuart) dynasty.
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A.
William of Hatfield
William of Hatfield was a short-lived English prince of the 14th century, one of the younger sons of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault.
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B.
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, was a renowned Anglo-Norman knight and statesman who served multiple English kings and became one of medieval England’s most powerful and respected magnates.
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C.
Robert Fitzwalter
Robert Fitzwalter was a prominent English baron and rebel leader in the early 13th century, known for his key role in opposing King John and helping to bring about Magna Carta.
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D.
Roger de Montgomery
Roger de Montgomery was an 11th-century Norman nobleman and close ally of William the Conqueror who became Earl of Shrewsbury and a major landholder in post-Conquest England.
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E.
Hubert de Burgh
Hubert de Burgh was a prominent early 13th-century English nobleman and royal official who rose to become Justiciar of England and a key supporter of King John and the young Henry III.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
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: Walter fitz Alan Description of subject: Walter fitz Alan was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman who became the first hereditary High Steward of Scotland and progenitor of the royal Stewart (Stuart) dynasty.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.