Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus
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Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus was a powerful late 15th- and early 16th-century Scottish nobleman and statesman, known for his dominant influence over King James V of Scotland and his central role in the turbulent politics of the Douglas family.
All labels observed (1)
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| Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3058402 — 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, 5th Earl of Angus Context triple: [Earls of Angus, notableHolder, Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus]
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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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Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas
Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish noble and magnate whose rivalry with the crown played a central role in the turbulent politics of late medieval Scotland.
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Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas
Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman and military leader who played a major role in the turbulent politics and warfare of late medieval Scotland.
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George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus
George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman and influential member of the Douglas family who played a key role in the turbulent politics of late medieval Scotland.
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11th Earl of Angus
The 11th Earl of Angus was a senior Scottish nobleman of the powerful Douglas family who held one of the most prominent earldoms in late medieval and early modern Scotland.
- 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, 5th Earl of Angus Target entity description: Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus was a powerful late 15th- and early 16th-century Scottish nobleman and statesman, known for his dominant influence over King James V of Scotland and his central role in the turbulent politics of the Douglas family.
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A.
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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Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas
Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish noble and magnate whose rivalry with the crown played a central role in the turbulent politics of late medieval Scotland.
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C.
Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas
Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman and military leader who played a major role in the turbulent politics and warfare of late medieval Scotland.
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D.
George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus
George Douglas, 4th Earl of Angus, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman and influential member of the Douglas family who played a key role in the turbulent politics of late medieval Scotland.
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E.
11th Earl of Angus
The 11th Earl of Angus was a senior Scottish nobleman of the powerful Douglas family who held one of the most prominent earldoms in late medieval and early modern Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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, 5th Earl of Angus Description of subject: Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Angus was a powerful late 15th- and early 16th-century Scottish nobleman and statesman, known for his dominant influence over King James V of Scotland and his central role in the turbulent politics of the Douglas family.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.