William Wallace
E152285
William Wallace was a Scottish knight and national hero who led a major uprising against English rule during the Wars of Scottish Independence in the late 13th century.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Wallace canonical | 46 |
| William Wallace (Braveheart) | 2 |
| Scottish knight William Wallace | 1 |
| Sir William Wallace | 1 |
| Sir William Wallace of Elderslie | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1325207 — 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: William Wallace Context triple: [Stirling Castle, associatedWith, William Wallace]
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Robert the Bruce
Robert the Bruce was the King of Scots from 1306 to 1329, renowned for leading Scotland to de facto independence from England during the First War of Scottish Independence.
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B.
John Alexander
John Alexander is an American actor and creature performer known for his work in practical effects and suit acting in fantasy and science fiction films.
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John Alexander
John Alexander was a prominent landowner in colonial Virginia whose family holdings encompassed the area that later became the city of Alexandria.
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D.
Alexander de Brus
Alexander de Brus was a Scottish nobleman of the influential Bruce family, known primarily as a brother of King Robert the Bruce and a supporter of his cause during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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E.
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.
- 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: William Wallace Target entity description: William Wallace was a Scottish knight and national hero who led a major uprising against English rule during the Wars of Scottish Independence in the late 13th century.
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A.
Robert the Bruce
Robert the Bruce was the King of Scots from 1306 to 1329, renowned for leading Scotland to de facto independence from England during the First War of Scottish Independence.
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B.
John Alexander
John Alexander is an American actor and creature performer known for his work in practical effects and suit acting in fantasy and science fiction films.
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C.
John Alexander
John Alexander was a prominent landowner in colonial Virginia whose family holdings encompassed the area that later became the city of Alexandria.
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D.
Alexander de Brus
Alexander de Brus was a Scottish nobleman of the influential Bruce family, known primarily as a brother of King Robert the Bruce and a supporter of his cause during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: William Wallace Description of subject: William Wallace was a Scottish knight and national hero who led a major uprising against English rule during the Wars of Scottish Independence in the late 13th century.
Referenced by (51)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: William Wallace
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subject linked to:
Argyle Wallace in Braveheart
linked to: William Wallace
subject linked to:
Argyle Wallace in Braveheart
linked to: William Wallace
The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie
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biographicalSubject
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Scottish knight William Wallace
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linked to: William Wallace