William fitz Duncan
E392449
Scottish prince
claimant to the Scottish throne
medieval nobleman
member of the House of Dunkeld
military leader
William fitz Duncan was a 12th-century Scottish prince and military leader, notable as a powerful claimant to the Scottish throne and a key figure in the politics of the Kingdom of Alba.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William fitz Duncan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3843713 — 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: William fitz Duncan Context triple: [Duncan II of Scotland, child, William fitz Duncan]
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Walter fitz Alan
Walter fitz Alan was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman who became the first hereditary High Steward of Scotland and progenitor of the royal Stewart (Stuart) dynasty.
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Arnulf de Montgomery
Arnulf de Montgomery was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and marcher lord of the late 11th and early 12th centuries, known for his role in the Norman consolidation of power in Wales and the Welsh borderlands.
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C.
William of Hatfield
William of Hatfield was a short-lived English prince of the 14th century, one of the younger sons of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault.
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D.
Edward de Bohun
Edward de Bohun was an early 14th-century English nobleman of the influential de Bohun family, notable as a grandson of King Edward I through his mother, Elizabeth of Rhuddlan.
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E.
Ranulph
Ranulph is the given name of Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the renowned British explorer and adventurer known for his polar expeditions and endurance feats.
- 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: William fitz Duncan Target entity description: William fitz Duncan was a 12th-century Scottish prince and military leader, notable as a powerful claimant to the Scottish throne and a key figure in the politics of the Kingdom of Alba.
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A.
Walter fitz Alan
Walter fitz Alan was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman who became the first hereditary High Steward of Scotland and progenitor of the royal Stewart (Stuart) dynasty.
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B.
Arnulf de Montgomery
Arnulf de Montgomery was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and marcher lord of the late 11th and early 12th centuries, known for his role in the Norman consolidation of power in Wales and the Welsh borderlands.
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C.
William of Hatfield
William of Hatfield was a short-lived English prince of the 14th century, one of the younger sons of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault.
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D.
Edward de Bohun
Edward de Bohun was an early 14th-century English nobleman of the influential de Bohun family, notable as a grandson of King Edward I through his mother, Elizabeth of Rhuddlan.
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E.
Ranulph
Ranulph is the given name of Sir Ranulph Fiennes, the renowned British explorer and adventurer known for his polar expeditions and endurance feats.
- 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: William fitz Duncan Description of subject: William fitz Duncan was a 12th-century Scottish prince and military leader, notable as a powerful claimant to the Scottish throne and a key figure in the politics of the Kingdom of Alba.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.