Scadlock
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Scadlock is an alternate name for the medieval English outlaw Will Scathelock, traditionally associated with the Robin Hood legends.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Scadlock canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7178470 — 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: Scadlock Context triple: [Will Scathelock, hasVariantName, Scadlock]
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A.
Shriever
Shriever is a surname, a variant spelling of "Shriver," borne by various individuals of English-speaking origin.
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B.
Swickard
Swickard is a surname most notably associated with Josef Swickard, a German-born American character actor of the silent film era.
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C.
Gombauld
Gombauld is a modernist painter and one of the central, satirically portrayed guests at the country-house gathering in Aldous Huxley’s novel "Crome Yellow."
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D.
Godehart
Godehart is a German given name, serving as a variant form of the name Gotthard.
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E.
Gillen
Gillen is a small coastal settlement on the Waternish peninsula of the Isle of Skye in 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: Scadlock Target entity description: Scadlock is an alternate name for the medieval English outlaw Will Scathelock, traditionally associated with the Robin Hood legends.
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A.
Shriever
Shriever is a surname, a variant spelling of "Shriver," borne by various individuals of English-speaking origin.
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B.
Swickard
Swickard is a surname most notably associated with Josef Swickard, a German-born American character actor of the silent film era.
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C.
Gombauld
Gombauld is a modernist painter and one of the central, satirically portrayed guests at the country-house gathering in Aldous Huxley’s novel "Crome Yellow."
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D.
Godehart
Godehart is a German given name, serving as a variant form of the name Gotthard.
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E.
Gillen
Gillen is a small coastal settlement on the Waternish peninsula of the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
character from English folklore
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fictional character ⓘ legendary outlaw ⓘ |
| appearsIn |
English outlaw ballads
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Robin Hood ballads ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Merry Men
ⓘ
Robin Hood ⓘ Sherwood Forest ⓘ |
| category |
Robin Hood characters
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medieval legendary outlaws ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | England ⓘ |
| culture | English folklore ⓘ |
| fictionalUniverse |
Robin Hood cycle
ⓘ
linked to:
Robin Hood and the Monk
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAlternateName |
Will Scarlet
ⓘ
Will Scathelock ⓘ |
| languageOfTradition | Middle English ⓘ |
| medium |
medieval ballads
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oral tradition ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Robin Hood's band
ⓘ
linked to:
Merry Men
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| notableFeature | alternate name form of Will Scathelock ⓘ |
| occupation | outlaw ⓘ |
| partOf |
Robin Hood legends
ⓘ
linked to:
Robin Hood
|
| role |
companion of Robin Hood
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member of an outlaw band ⓘ |
| 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: Scadlock Description of subject: Scadlock is an alternate name for the medieval English outlaw Will Scathelock, traditionally associated with the Robin Hood legends.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.