Margaret Isabella Balfour
E320271
Margaret Isabella Balfour was the Scottish mother of author Robert Louis Stevenson, belonging to a prominent Edinburgh family.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Margaret Isabella Balfour canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3035947 — 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 Isabella Balfour Context triple: [Robert Louis Stevenson, mother, Margaret Isabella Balfour]
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A.
Margaret Lindsay
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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B.
Margaret Diana Bingham
Margaret Diana Bingham was a British aristocrat best known as the wife of Field Marshal Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, a prominent military commander and statesman.
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C.
Anna Erskine
Anna Erskine is the daughter of American actress Lindsay Crouse.
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D.
Ethel Mary Elizabeth Bannerman
Ethel Mary Elizabeth Bannerman was a Scottish aristocrat best known as the wife of Charles Noel Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk, and a member of the British peerage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
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.
- 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 Isabella Balfour Target entity description: Margaret Isabella Balfour was the Scottish mother of author Robert Louis Stevenson, belonging to a prominent Edinburgh family.
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A.
Margaret Lindsay
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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B.
Margaret Diana Bingham
Margaret Diana Bingham was a British aristocrat best known as the wife of Field Marshal Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis, a prominent military commander and statesman.
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C.
Anna Erskine
Anna Erskine is the daughter of American actress Lindsay Crouse.
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D.
Ethel Mary Elizabeth Bannerman
Ethel Mary Elizabeth Bannerman was a Scottish aristocrat best known as the wife of Charles Noel Carnegie, 10th Earl of Southesk, and a member of the British peerage in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish person
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human ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| familyName | Balfour ⓘ |
| givenName |
Isabella
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Margaret ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Balfour family ⓘ |
| motherOf | Robert Louis Stevenson ⓘ |
| notableFamily | prominent Edinburgh family ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Robert Louis Stevenson ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| residence | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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 Isabella Balfour Description of subject: Margaret Isabella Balfour was the Scottish mother of author Robert Louis Stevenson, belonging to a prominent Edinburgh family.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.