1st Earl of Moray
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The 1st Earl of Moray was a prominent Scottish noble title most famously held by James Stewart, the illegitimate half-brother of Mary, Queen of Scots, who served as Regent of Scotland during her son James VI’s minority.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Stewart, Earl of Moray | 3 |
| 1st Earl of Moray canonical | 2 |
| Earl of Moray | 1 |
| Earl of Moray (from 1562) | 1 |
| James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray | 1 |
| regency of James Stewart, Earl of Moray | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5590253 — 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: 1st Earl of Moray Context triple: [James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray (illegitimate), nobleTitle, 1st Earl of Moray]
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A.
John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray
John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray, was a 14th-century Scottish nobleman and military leader who served as Regent of Scotland during the minority of King David II.
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Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray
Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray, was a 15th-century Scottish nobleman of the powerful Black Douglas family who played a leading role in the dynastic conflicts against King James II of Scotland.
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Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray
Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and military leader who played a key role in Robert the Bruce’s campaigns during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton
James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton, was a prominent 16th-century Scottish nobleman and political figure who played a key role in the turbulent politics of the reigns of James V and Mary, Queen of Scots.
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John Erskine, Earl of Mar
John Erskine, Earl of Mar, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and politician best known for initiating and commanding the Jacobite rising of 1715 in an effort to restore the Stuart monarchy.
- 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: 1st Earl of Moray Target entity description: The 1st Earl of Moray was a prominent Scottish noble title most famously held by James Stewart, the illegitimate half-brother of Mary, Queen of Scots, who served as Regent of Scotland during her son James VI’s minority.
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A.
John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray
John Randolph, 3rd Earl of Moray, was a 14th-century Scottish nobleman and military leader who served as Regent of Scotland during the minority of King David II.
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B.
Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray
Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray, was a 15th-century Scottish nobleman of the powerful Black Douglas family who played a leading role in the dynastic conflicts against King James II of Scotland.
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C.
Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray
Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and military leader who played a key role in Robert the Bruce’s campaigns during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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D.
James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton
James Douglas, 1st Earl of Morton, was a prominent 16th-century Scottish nobleman and political figure who played a key role in the turbulent politics of the reigns of James V and Mary, Queen of Scots.
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E.
John Erskine, Earl of Mar
John Erskine, Earl of Mar, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and politician best known for initiating and commanding the Jacobite rising of 1715 in an effort to restore the Stuart monarchy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
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: 1st Earl of Moray Description of subject: The 1st Earl of Moray was a prominent Scottish noble title most famously held by James Stewart, the illegitimate half-brother of Mary, Queen of Scots, who served as Regent of Scotland during her son James VI’s minority.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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the Moray family
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1st Earl of Moray
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