Margaret Lindsay
E257735
Margaret Lindsay was a Scottish noblewoman best known as the wife of David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk, and a member of the influential Lindsay family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Margaret Lindsay canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2259964 — 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 Lindsay Context triple: [David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk, spouse, Margaret Lindsay]
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A.
Margaret McGregor
Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
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B.
Agnes Maclehose
Agnes Maclehose, also known by the pseudonym "Clarinda," was a Scottish woman best remembered for her intense, epistolary romantic friendship with poet Robert Burns in the late 18th century.
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C.
Margaret Robertson
Margaret Robertson was the wife of Scottish physicist and radar pioneer Sir Robert Watson-Watt.
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D.
Elizabeth Mure
Elizabeth Mure was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the first wife of King Robert II of Scotland and the mother of several children who founded key branches of the Stewart dynasty.
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E.
Margaret Leslie, Countess of Buccleuch
Margaret Leslie, Countess of Buccleuch, was a 17th-century Scottish noblewoman and heiress whose title and estates passed through her daughter Anne Scott, helping shape the powerful Buccleuch lineage.
- 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 Lindsay Target entity description: Margaret Lindsay was a Scottish noblewoman best known as the wife of David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk, and a member of the influential Lindsay family.
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A.
Margaret McGregor
Margaret McGregor was the wife of American frontiersman and military officer Robert Rogers, associated with the colonial era in North America.
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B.
Agnes Maclehose
Agnes Maclehose, also known by the pseudonym "Clarinda," was a Scottish woman best remembered for her intense, epistolary romantic friendship with poet Robert Burns in the late 18th century.
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C.
Margaret Robertson
Margaret Robertson was the wife of Scottish physicist and radar pioneer Sir Robert Watson-Watt.
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D.
Elizabeth Mure
Elizabeth Mure was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the first wife of King Robert II of Scotland and the mother of several children who founded key branches of the Stewart dynasty.
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E.
Margaret Leslie, Countess of Buccleuch
Margaret Leslie, Countess of Buccleuch, was a 17th-century Scottish noblewoman and heiress whose title and estates passed through her daughter Anne Scott, helping shape the powerful Buccleuch lineage.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Scottish noblewoman ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Earldom of Southesk
ⓘ
House of Carnegie ⓘ
linked to:
Carnegie
Lindsay family estates ⓘ
linked to:
Lindsay family
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scots ⓘ |
| familyConnection | Scottish nobility ⓘ |
| genreOfActivity | aristocratic life ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Scots
ⓘ
Scottish English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| memberOf | Lindsay family ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Countess of Southesk ⓘ |
| notableFor | being wife of David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk ⓘ |
| positionHeld | noblewoman in the Scottish peerage ⓘ |
| residence | Scotland ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| socialRole | wife of a Scottish earl ⓘ |
| spouse | David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk ⓘ |
| spouseNobleTitle | Earl of Southesk ⓘ |
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 Lindsay Description of subject: Margaret Lindsay was a Scottish noblewoman best known as the wife of David Carnegie, 1st Earl of Southesk, and a member of the influential Lindsay family.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.