Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Morton
E359565
Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Morton, was a 16th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who served as Regent of Scotland during the minority of King James VI.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| 8th Earl of Morton | 1 |
| Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus (as 7th Earl of Morton) | 1 |
| Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Morton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2776576 — 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: Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Morton Context triple: [Earl of Morton, titleHolder, Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Morton]
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James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton
James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, was a powerful 16th-century Scottish nobleman who served as Regent of Scotland during the minority of King James VI and played a central role in the turbulent politics following Mary, Queen of Scots’ abdication.
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William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton
William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton, was a prominent 16th-century Scottish nobleman and statesman who served as Regent of Scotland during the minority of King James VI.
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James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton
James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton, was a prominent 16th-century Scottish nobleman and political figure who played a key role in the turbulent politics of the reigns of James V and Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus
Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, was a powerful Scottish nobleman and regent who dominated Scottish politics in the early 16th century and was the second husband of Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry VIII.
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E.
Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray
Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and military leader who played a key role in Robert the Bruce’s campaigns during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
- 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: Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Morton Target entity description: Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Morton, was a 16th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who served as Regent of Scotland during the minority of King James VI.
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A.
James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton
James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, was a powerful 16th-century Scottish nobleman who served as Regent of Scotland during the minority of King James VI and played a central role in the turbulent politics following Mary, Queen of Scots’ abdication.
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B.
William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton
William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton, was a prominent 16th-century Scottish nobleman and statesman who served as Regent of Scotland during the minority of King James VI.
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C.
James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton
James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton, was a prominent 16th-century Scottish nobleman and political figure who played a key role in the turbulent politics of the reigns of James V and Mary, Queen of Scots.
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D.
Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus
Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, was a powerful Scottish nobleman and regent who dominated Scottish politics in the early 16th century and was the second husband of Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry VIII.
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E.
Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray
Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and military leader who played a key role in Robert the Bruce’s campaigns during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Morton Description of subject: Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Morton, was a 16th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who served as Regent of Scotland during the minority of King James VI.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Earls of Morton
William Douglas, 6th Earl of Morton
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successorAsEarlOfMorton
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Archibald Douglas, 8th Earl of Angus (as 7th Earl of Morton)
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