Guy de Balliol
E485906
Guy de Balliol was a medieval Anglo-Norman nobleman of the Balliol family, known primarily as an early member of the dynasty that later produced King John Balliol of Scotland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Guy de Balliol canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4720677 — 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: Guy de Balliol Context triple: [House of Balliol, notableMember, Guy de Balliol]
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A.
Edward Balliol
Edward Balliol was a 14th-century claimant to the Scottish throne who, with English support, briefly ruled Scotland during the Second War of Scottish Independence.
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B.
John Balliol
John Balliol was a late 13th-century King of Scots whose weak rule under heavy English influence helped spark the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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C.
Bernard de Brus
Bernard de Brus was a 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman of the Brus family, a younger son of the powerful Lords of Annandale and a member of the lineage that produced Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
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D.
William de Brus
William de Brus was a medieval Scottish nobleman of the Brus family, known primarily as a younger son of the powerful Lords of Annandale.
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E.
Thomas de Brus
Thomas de Brus was a medieval Scottish nobleman of the influential Bruce family, known primarily as a brother of King Robert the Bruce and a participant in 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: Guy de Balliol Target entity description: Guy de Balliol was a medieval Anglo-Norman nobleman of the Balliol family, known primarily as an early member of the dynasty that later produced King John Balliol of Scotland.
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A.
Edward Balliol
Edward Balliol was a 14th-century claimant to the Scottish throne who, with English support, briefly ruled Scotland during the Second War of Scottish Independence.
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B.
John Balliol
John Balliol was a late 13th-century King of Scots whose weak rule under heavy English influence helped spark the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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C.
Bernard de Brus
Bernard de Brus was a 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman of the Brus family, a younger son of the powerful Lords of Annandale and a member of the lineage that produced Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
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D.
William de Brus
William de Brus was a medieval Scottish nobleman of the Brus family, known primarily as a younger son of the powerful Lords of Annandale.
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E.
Thomas de Brus
Thomas de Brus was a medieval Scottish nobleman of the influential Bruce family, known primarily as a brother of King Robert the Bruce and a participant in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglo-Norman nobleman
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King of Scotland ⓘ medieval nobleman ⓘ member of the Balliol family ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Anglo-Norman ⓘ |
| familyName | de Balliol ⓘ |
| hasDynasticConnectionTo | John Balliol ⓘ |
| memberOf | Balliol family ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Balliol family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being an early member of the Balliol dynasty
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connection to the later King John Balliol of Scotland ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Middle Ages ⓘ |
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: Guy de Balliol Description of subject: Guy de Balliol was a medieval Anglo-Norman nobleman of the Balliol family, known primarily as an early member of the dynasty that later produced King John Balliol of Scotland.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.