Margaret Stewart, Countess of Mar
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Margaret Stewart, Countess of Mar, was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman who held the ancient earldom of Mar in her own right and played a notable role in the politics of medieval Scotland.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Margaret Stewart, Countess of Mar canonical | 2 |
| Margaret, Countess of Mar | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2464913 — 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 Mar Context triple: [Euphemia de Ross, stepChild, Margaret Stewart, Countess of Mar]
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A.
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas
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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B.
Margaret Stewart
Margaret Stewart was a Scottish noblewoman of the late 16th century who became the wife of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, a prominent English admiral under Queen Elizabeth I.
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C.
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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D.
Countess of Moray
The Countess of Moray was a prominent Scottish noble title historically associated with powerful aristocratic families linked to the earldom of Moray.
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E.
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.
- 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 Mar Target entity description: Margaret Stewart, Countess of Mar, was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman who held the ancient earldom of Mar in her own right and played a notable role in the politics of medieval Scotland.
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A.
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas
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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B.
Margaret Stewart
Margaret Stewart was a Scottish noblewoman of the late 16th century who became the wife of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, a prominent English admiral under Queen Elizabeth I.
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C.
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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D.
Countess of Moray
The Countess of Moray was a prominent Scottish noble title historically associated with powerful aristocratic families linked to the earldom of Moray.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish noblewoman
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countess ⓘ medieval Scottish person ⓘ |
| aristocraticRank | earl-level peer ⓘ |
| associatedWithTerritory | Mar ⓘ |
| century | 14th century ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| governanceForm | feudal lordship ⓘ |
| governedAsFeudalLord | Earldom of Mar ⓘ |
| heldTitleInHerOwnRight | Earldom of Mar ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Scotland ⓘ |
| language |
Latin
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Scots ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Stewart family ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Countess of Mar ⓘ |
| notableFor |
holding the ancient earldom of Mar suo jure
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role in the politics of medieval Scotland ⓘ |
| politicalRole | participant in Scottish baronial politics ⓘ |
| position | Scottish peer ⓘ |
| realm | medieval Scotland ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| successionType | hereditary peerage ⓘ |
| titleHeldAs | suo jure countess ⓘ |
| titleJurisdiction | Peerage of Scotland ⓘ |
| typeOfNobleTitle | Scottish earldom ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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 Mar Description of subject: Margaret Stewart, Countess of Mar, was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman who held the ancient earldom of Mar in her own right and played a notable role in the politics of medieval Scotland.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.