Macduff
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Macduff is a Scottish nobleman in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Macbeth," known for opposing the tyrannical Macbeth and ultimately killing him to restore rightful order to Scotland.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Macduff canonical | 5 |
| Lady Macduff | 2 |
| MacDuff, Earl of Fife | 2 |
| MacDuff | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5769620 — 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: Macduff Context triple: [Macbeth, character, Macduff]
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A.
Macduff
Macduff is a small coastal town in Aberdeenshire, northeastern Scotland, known historically for its fishing industry and harbor on the Moray Firth.
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B.
Banquo
Banquo is a noble Scottish general in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Macbeth," known for his integrity, his role in the witches’ prophecy, and his haunting of Macbeth after being murdered.
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C.
Richard MacDuff
Richard MacDuff is a central character in Douglas Adams's novel "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency," portrayed as a somewhat hapless but intelligent software engineer entangled in the story's bizarre, time-twisting mysteries.
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D.
Campbell of Cawdor
Campbell of Cawdor is a prominent Scottish Highland branch of Clan Campbell historically associated with the Cawdor estates and castle in Nairnshire.
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E.
Fleance
Fleance is the young son of Banquo in Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth," whose survival threatens Macbeth's power because of a prophecy that Banquo's descendants will inherit the Scottish throne.
- 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: Macduff Target entity description: Macduff is a Scottish nobleman in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Macbeth," known for opposing the tyrannical Macbeth and ultimately killing him to restore rightful order to Scotland.
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A.
Macduff
Macduff is a small coastal town in Aberdeenshire, northeastern Scotland, known historically for its fishing industry and harbor on the Moray Firth.
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B.
Banquo
Banquo is a noble Scottish general in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Macbeth," known for his integrity, his role in the witches’ prophecy, and his haunting of Macbeth after being murdered.
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C.
Richard MacDuff
Richard MacDuff is a central character in Douglas Adams's novel "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency," portrayed as a somewhat hapless but intelligent software engineer entangled in the story's bizarre, time-twisting mysteries.
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D.
Campbell of Cawdor
Campbell of Cawdor is a prominent Scottish Highland branch of Clan Campbell historically associated with the Cawdor estates and castle in Nairnshire.
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E.
Fleance
Fleance is the young son of Banquo in Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth," whose survival threatens Macbeth's power because of a prophecy that Banquo's descendants will inherit the Scottish throne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish nobleman
ⓘ
Shakespearean character ⓘ fictional character ⓘ |
| allegiance |
King Duncan of Scotland
ⓘ
linked to:
King Duncan
Malcolm ⓘ |
| announces | the death of Macbeth ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Macbeth ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
overthrow of tyranny
ⓘ
restoration of rightful order in Scotland ⓘ |
| basedOn | figures in Holinshed’s Chronicles ⓘ |
| birthDescription | from his mother’s womb untimely ripped ⓘ |
| creator | William Shakespeare ⓘ |
| enemy |
Lady Macbeth
ⓘ
Macbeth ⓘ |
| experiences | grief at the murder of his wife and children ⓘ |
| featuredIn |
film adaptations of Macbeth
ⓘ
numerous stage productions of Macbeth ⓘ |
| firstAppearance | Act 1, Scene 6 of Macbeth ⓘ |
| fulfillsProphecy | Macbeth will be killed by one not of woman born ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hails | Malcolm as King of Scotland ⓘ |
| hasChild | Macduff’s son ⓘ |
| homeLocation | Fife ⓘ |
| kills | Macbeth ⓘ |
| killsAt | Dunsinane Castle ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Early Modern English ⓘ |
| literaryRole | foil to Macbeth ⓘ |
| moralStance | loyal to Scotland above personal safety ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish ⓘ |
| notableAction |
discovers the murdered King Duncan
ⓘ
flees to England to join Malcolm ⓘ leads forces against Macbeth at Dunsinane ⓘ tests Malcolm’s character and loyalty to Scotland ⓘ |
| opposes | Macbeth ⓘ |
| orders | his family to remain in Fife when he goes to England ⓘ |
| participatesIn | battle against Norwegian forces and Scottish rebels ⓘ |
| refuses | to attend Macbeth’s coronation at Scone ⓘ |
| roleInWork | major character in Macbeth ⓘ |
| seeksRevengeFor | murder of his family ⓘ |
| spouse |
Lady Macduff
ⓘ
linked to:
Macduff
|
| suspects | Macbeth of murdering Duncan ⓘ |
| symbolizes |
justice
ⓘ
moral integrity ⓘ patriotism ⓘ |
| timePeriodInFiction | 11th-century Scotland ⓘ |
| title | Thane of Fife ⓘ |
| urgedBy | Malcolm to turn grief into revenge ⓘ |
| workGenre | tragedy ⓘ |
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: Macduff Description of subject: Macduff is a Scottish nobleman in Shakespeare’s tragedy "Macbeth," known for opposing the tyrannical Macbeth and ultimately killing him to restore rightful order to Scotland.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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