Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas
E161020
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas, was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman and royal daughter whose marriage into the powerful Douglas family strengthened the political alliances of the early Stewart monarchy.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Countess of Douglas | 2 |
| Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas canonical | 2 |
| Margaret Douglas, Countess of Douglas | 1 |
| Margaret Stewart (daughter of James I of Scotland) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1124457 — 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: Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas Context triple: [Robert II of Scotland, child, Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas]
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A.
Margaret Stewart
Margaret Stewart was a 16th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the wife of the Protestant reformer John Knox.
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B.
Marjorie, Countess of Carrick
Marjorie, Countess of Carrick, was a 13th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the mother of King Robert the Bruce and a key figure in the lineage of the Scottish royal house.
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C.
Margaret Stuart
Margaret Stuart was a lesser-known daughter of King James VI and I of Scotland and England and Anne of Denmark, and a younger sister of Elizabeth Stuart, the "Winter Queen" of Bohemia.
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D.
Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scots
Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scots, was the second wife of King Robert the Bruce and served as queen consort of Scotland during the early 14th century.
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E.
Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots
Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots, was an English noblewoman who became queen consort through her marriage to King James I of Scotland and played a significant political role as his wife and later as regent for their son.
- 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: Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas Target entity description: Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas, was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman and royal daughter whose marriage into the powerful Douglas family strengthened the political alliances of the early Stewart monarchy.
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A.
Margaret Stewart
Margaret Stewart was a 16th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the wife of the Protestant reformer John Knox.
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B.
Marjorie, Countess of Carrick
Marjorie, Countess of Carrick, was a 13th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the mother of King Robert the Bruce and a key figure in the lineage of the Scottish royal house.
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C.
Margaret Stuart
Margaret Stuart was a lesser-known daughter of King James VI and I of Scotland and England and Anne of Denmark, and a younger sister of Elizabeth Stuart, the "Winter Queen" of Bohemia.
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D.
Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scots
Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scots, was the second wife of King Robert the Bruce and served as queen consort of Scotland during the early 14th century.
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E.
Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots
Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots, was an English noblewoman who became queen consort through her marriage to King James I of Scotland and played a significant political role as his wife and later as regent for their son.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish noblewoman
ⓘ
medieval noble ⓘ royal daughter ⓘ |
| aristocraticTitleFrom | marriage into the Douglas family ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 14th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| era | Late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Stewart ⓘ |
| father | Robert III of Scotland ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Margaret ⓘ |
| languageOfUse | Scots ⓘ |
| memberOfNobleFamily |
Douglas family
ⓘ
House of Stewart ⓘ
linked to:
House of Stuart
|
| mother | Margaret Drummond, Queen of Scots ⓘ |
| nobleRank | countess ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Countess of Douglas
ⓘ
linked to:
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas
|
| notableFor |
marriage alliance with the Douglas family
ⓘ
strengthening political alliances of the early Stewart monarchy ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence | Scotland ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Countess of Douglas
ⓘ
linked to:
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas
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| relative | early Stewart monarchy ⓘ |
| socialStatus | nobility ⓘ |
| spouse | William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas ⓘ |
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: Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas Description of subject: Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas, was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman and royal daughter whose marriage into the powerful Douglas family strengthened the political alliances of the early Stewart monarchy.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas
linked to: Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas
linked to: Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas
linked to: Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas