Margaret Douglas, Fair Maid of Galloway
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Margaret Douglas, known as the Fair Maid of Galloway, was a 15th-century Scottish noblewoman of the powerful Douglas family whose marriages were central to the clan’s political ambitions and succession.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Margaret Douglas, Fair Maid of Galloway canonical | 3 |
| Margaret Douglas | 2 |
| Margaret Douglas, Lady of Galloway | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6619909 — 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: Margaret Douglas, Fair Maid of Galloway Context triple: [William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas, sibling, Margaret Douglas, Fair Maid of Galloway]
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A.
Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, was a prominent 16th-century Scottish noblewoman and granddaughter of Henry VII whose lineage made her a key dynastic figure in the Tudor succession.
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B.
Margaret Stewart
Margaret Stewart was a Scottish noblewoman of the late 16th century who became the wife of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, a prominent English admiral under Queen Elizabeth I.
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C.
Margaret Stewart
Margaret Stewart was a 16th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the wife of the Protestant reformer John Knox.
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D.
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Mar
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Mar, was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman who held the ancient earldom of Mar in her own right and played a notable role in the politics of medieval Scotland.
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E.
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas, was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman and royal daughter whose marriage into the powerful Douglas family strengthened the political alliances of the early Stewart 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: Margaret Douglas, Fair Maid of Galloway Target entity description: Margaret Douglas, known as the Fair Maid of Galloway, was a 15th-century Scottish noblewoman of the powerful Douglas family whose marriages were central to the clan’s political ambitions and succession.
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A.
Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox
Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, was a prominent 16th-century Scottish noblewoman and granddaughter of Henry VII whose lineage made her a key dynastic figure in the Tudor succession.
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B.
Margaret Stewart
Margaret Stewart was a Scottish noblewoman of the late 16th century who became the wife of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, a prominent English admiral under Queen Elizabeth I.
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C.
Margaret Stewart
Margaret Stewart was a 16th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the wife of the Protestant reformer John Knox.
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D.
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Mar
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Mar, was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman who held the ancient earldom of Mar in her own right and played a notable role in the politics of medieval Scotland.
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E.
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas, was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman and royal daughter whose marriage into the powerful Douglas family strengthened the political alliances of the early Stewart monarchy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
15th-century person
ⓘ
Scottish noblewoman ⓘ member of the Scottish nobility ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Black Douglas line
ⓘ
Douglas–Stewart political alliances ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Scotland ⓘ |
| familyName | Douglas ⓘ |
| father | Archibald Douglas, 5th Earl of Douglas ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Margaret ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Scots ⓘ |
| livedIn |
Galloway
ⓘ
Scotland ⓘ |
| marriageHasCause | Douglas family political strategy ⓘ |
| memberOf | Clan Douglas ⓘ |
| mother | Euphemia Graham ⓘ |
| nickname | Fair Maid of Galloway ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Douglas family ⓘ |
| nobleTitleConnectedTo |
Earldom of Douglas
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Lordship of Galloway ⓘ |
| notableFor |
marriages to successive Earls of Douglas
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role in Douglas family succession ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sibling |
David Douglas
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William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas ⓘ |
| spouse |
James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas
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John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl ⓘ William Douglas, 8th Earl of Douglas ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 15th century ⓘ |
| titleHeld | Lady of Galloway ⓘ |
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: Margaret Douglas, Fair Maid of Galloway Description of subject: Margaret Douglas, known as the Fair Maid of Galloway, was a 15th-century Scottish noblewoman of the powerful Douglas family whose marriages were central to the clan’s political ambitions and succession.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Margaret Douglas, Fair Maid of Galloway
subject linked to:
6th Earl of Douglas
linked to: Margaret Douglas, Fair Maid of Galloway
linked to: Margaret Douglas, Fair Maid of Galloway