Máel Coluim
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Máel Coluim is a Gaelic personal name historically borne by several medieval Scottish kings, including Malcolm II and Malcolm III.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Máel Coluim canonical | 7 |
| Máel Coluim I of Scotland | 3 |
| Máel Coluim II of Scotland | 3 |
| Máel Coluim mac Domnaill | 2 |
| Máel Coluim mac Cináeda | 1 |
| Máel Coluim mac Donnchada | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4437053 — 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: Máel Coluim Context triple: [Malcolm, etymologyDerivedFrom, Máel Coluim]
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A.
Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim
Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim, better known as Duncan II of Scotland, was a briefly reigning 11th-century Scottish king and son of Malcolm III who ruled during a turbulent period of dynastic conflict.
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B.
Máel Coluim I, Earl of Fife
Máel Coluim I, Earl of Fife, was a prominent 12th-century Scottish nobleman and magnate who played a key role in the early development of the powerful earldom of Fife.
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C.
Domnall mac Ailpín
Domnall mac Ailpín was a 9th-century king of the Picts (often regarded as an early king of Scotland) and a member of the Alpin dynasty who ruled after Kenneth MacAlpin.
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D.
Gille Coemgáin of Moray
Gille Coemgáin of Moray was an 11th-century Scottish nobleman and Mormaer of Moray, notable as the father of King Lulach of Scotland and a key figure in the power struggles of northern Scotland.
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E.
Donnchad I, Earl of Fife
Donnchad I, Earl of Fife, was a prominent 12th-century Scottish nobleman and mormaer of Fife who played a key role in the early medieval Kingdom of 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: Máel Coluim Target entity description: Máel Coluim is a Gaelic personal name historically borne by several medieval Scottish kings, including Malcolm II and Malcolm III.
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A.
Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim
Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim, better known as Duncan II of Scotland, was a briefly reigning 11th-century Scottish king and son of Malcolm III who ruled during a turbulent period of dynastic conflict.
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B.
Máel Coluim I, Earl of Fife
Máel Coluim I, Earl of Fife, was a prominent 12th-century Scottish nobleman and magnate who played a key role in the early development of the powerful earldom of Fife.
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C.
Domnall mac Ailpín
Domnall mac Ailpín was a 9th-century king of the Picts (often regarded as an early king of Scotland) and a member of the Alpin dynasty who ruled after Kenneth MacAlpin.
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D.
Gille Coemgáin of Moray
Gille Coemgáin of Moray was an 11th-century Scottish nobleman and Mormaer of Moray, notable as the father of King Lulach of Scotland and a key figure in the power struggles of northern Scotland.
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E.
Donnchad I, Earl of Fife
Donnchad I, Earl of Fife, was a prominent 12th-century Scottish nobleman and mormaer of Fife who played a key role in the early medieval Kingdom of Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
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: Máel Coluim Description of subject: Máel Coluim is a Gaelic personal name historically borne by several medieval Scottish kings, including Malcolm II and Malcolm III.
Referenced by (17)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Óengus’s son Máel Coluim mac Óengusa