Lord of Douglas
E304775
Lord of Douglas was a medieval Scottish noble title associated with the powerful Douglas family, one of Scotland’s most influential feudal dynasties.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lord of Douglas canonical | 15 |
| Lord of Angus | 1 |
| The Black Douglas | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2842274 — 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: Lord of Douglas Context triple: [Sir James Douglas, title, Lord of Douglas]
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A.
Lord of Galloway
The Lord of Galloway was a powerful medieval Scottish noble title associated with the influential Black Douglas family and their control over the Galloway region in southwestern Scotland.
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B.
Lord of Montgomery
Lord of Montgomery was a prominent Norman noble title associated with Roger de Montgomery, an influential companion of William the Conqueror and early Anglo-Norman magnate.
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C.
Lord of Annandale
Lord of Annandale was a prominent Scottish feudal title historically held by the Bruce family, associated with extensive lands in Annandale and significant influence in medieval Scotland.
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D.
Lord of the Isles
Lord of the Isles is a historic Scottish noble title traditionally associated with the rulers of the Hebrides and western coastal Highlands, later incorporated into the titles of the heir apparent to the British throne.
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E.
Lord Haddo
Lord Haddo is a courtesy title traditionally borne by the heir apparent to the Earl of Aberdeen in the Scottish peerage.
- 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: Lord of Douglas Target entity description: Lord of Douglas was a medieval Scottish noble title associated with the powerful Douglas family, one of Scotland’s most influential feudal dynasties.
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A.
Lord of Galloway
The Lord of Galloway was a powerful medieval Scottish noble title associated with the influential Black Douglas family and their control over the Galloway region in southwestern Scotland.
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B.
Lord of Montgomery
Lord of Montgomery was a prominent Norman noble title associated with Roger de Montgomery, an influential companion of William the Conqueror and early Anglo-Norman magnate.
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C.
Lord of Annandale
Lord of Annandale was a prominent Scottish feudal title historically held by the Bruce family, associated with extensive lands in Annandale and significant influence in medieval Scotland.
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D.
Lord of the Isles
Lord of the Isles is a historic Scottish noble title traditionally associated with the rulers of the Hebrides and western coastal Highlands, later incorporated into the titles of the heir apparent to the British throne.
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E.
Lord Haddo
Lord Haddo is a courtesy title traditionally borne by the heir apparent to the Earl of Aberdeen in the Scottish peerage.
- 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: Lord of Douglas Description of subject: Lord of Douglas was a medieval Scottish noble title associated with the powerful Douglas family, one of Scotland’s most influential feudal dynasties.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Lord of Douglas
linked to: Lord of Douglas