Lord Evandale
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Lord Evandale is a noble and honorable Cavalier officer in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Old Mortality," representing loyalty to the royalist cause during the Covenanter conflicts in 17th-century Scotland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lord Evandale canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8767313 — 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: Lord Evandale Context triple: [Old Mortality, featuresCharacter, Lord Evandale]
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A.
Lord of Courtenay
Lord of Courtenay was a noble title held by members of the medieval French House of Courtenay, associated with their seigneurial lordship and territorial authority.
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B.
Lord of Arundel
Lord of Arundel was a prominent medieval English noble title associated with the powerful feudal barony and castle of Arundel in Sussex.
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C.
Lord of Harcourt
Lord of Harcourt is a noble title historically associated with French aristocracy and held by members of the influential House of Lorraine.
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D.
Lord of Lambesc
Lord of Lambesc is a noble title historically associated with a cadet branch of the influential French House of Lorraine.
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E.
Lord of Mandeville
Lord of Mandeville is a medieval English noble title associated with the powerful de Mandeville family, notably held by Geoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex.
- 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: Lord Evandale Target entity description: Lord Evandale is a noble and honorable Cavalier officer in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Old Mortality," representing loyalty to the royalist cause during the Covenanter conflicts in 17th-century Scotland.
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A.
Lord of Courtenay
Lord of Courtenay was a noble title held by members of the medieval French House of Courtenay, associated with their seigneurial lordship and territorial authority.
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B.
Lord of Arundel
Lord of Arundel was a prominent medieval English noble title associated with the powerful feudal barony and castle of Arundel in Sussex.
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C.
Lord of Harcourt
Lord of Harcourt is a noble title historically associated with French aristocracy and held by members of the influential House of Lorraine.
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D.
Lord of Lambesc
Lord of Lambesc is a noble title historically associated with a cadet branch of the influential French House of Lorraine.
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E.
Lord of Mandeville
Lord of Mandeville is a medieval English noble title associated with the powerful de Mandeville family, notably held by Geoffrey de Mandeville, 2nd Earl of Essex.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Cavalier officer
ⓘ
fictional character ⓘ literary character ⓘ nobleman ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Old Mortality ⓘ |
| appearsInLanguage | English ⓘ |
| appearsInSeries | Waverley Novels ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Scottish nobility
ⓘ
royalist government ⓘ |
| createdBy |
Walter Scott
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linked to:
Sir Walter Scott
|
| fictionalUniverse |
Old Mortality universe
ⓘ
linked to:
Waverley universe
|
| firstPublishedIn | 1816 ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasAllegiance |
House of Stuart
ⓘ
royalist cause ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | army officer ⓘ |
| hasRole | supporting character ⓘ |
| hasTrait |
chivalrous
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honorable ⓘ loyal ⓘ noble ⓘ |
| literaryGenre | historical novel character ⓘ |
| nationality | Scottish (fictional) ⓘ |
| opposes |
Covenanters
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linked to:
Covenanter movement
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| servesIn | royalist army ⓘ |
| setDuring |
Covenanter conflicts
ⓘ
Killing Time in Scotland ⓘ |
| setInPeriod | 17th-century Scotland ⓘ |
| title | Lord ⓘ |
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: Lord Evandale Description of subject: Lord Evandale is a noble and honorable Cavalier officer in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Old Mortality," representing loyalty to the royalist cause during the Covenanter conflicts in 17th-century Scotland.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.