Maxwell family
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The Maxwell family is a prominent Scottish noble lineage historically influential in the southwest Lowlands, particularly around Dumfries and Galloway.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maxwell family canonical | 6 |
| Maxwell Stuart family | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2695298 — 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: Maxwell family Context triple: [Threave Castle, laterControlledBy, Maxwell family]
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Bruce family
The Bruce family was a powerful medieval Scottish noble dynasty that produced several prominent figures, including Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
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Douglas family
The Douglas family was a powerful and influential Scottish noble house that dominated much of medieval and early modern Scotland’s political and military life.
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C.
Campbell family
The Campbell family is a powerful Scottish Highland clan historically centered in Argyll, long prominent in Scottish politics and nobility.
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D.
Howard family
The Howard family is a prominent English noble house that has long held the dukedom of Norfolk and played a major role in the political and social life of the British aristocracy.
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E.
Howard family
The Howard family is an American show-business family best known for actors and filmmakers like Rance Howard and his son Ron Howard.
- 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: Maxwell family Target entity description: The Maxwell family is a prominent Scottish noble lineage historically influential in the southwest Lowlands, particularly around Dumfries and Galloway.
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A.
Bruce family
The Bruce family was a powerful medieval Scottish noble dynasty that produced several prominent figures, including Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
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B.
Douglas family
The Douglas family was a powerful and influential Scottish noble house that dominated much of medieval and early modern Scotland’s political and military life.
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C.
Campbell family
The Campbell family is a powerful Scottish Highland clan historically centered in Argyll, long prominent in Scottish politics and nobility.
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D.
Howard family
The Howard family is a prominent English noble house that has long held the dukedom of Norfolk and played a major role in the political and social life of the British aristocracy.
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E.
Howard family
The Howard family is an American show-business family best known for actors and filmmakers like Rance Howard and his son Ron Howard.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Maxwell family Description of subject: The Maxwell family is a prominent Scottish noble lineage historically influential in the southwest Lowlands, particularly around Dumfries and Galloway.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Maxwell family