Patrick V, Earl of March
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Patrick V, Earl of March, was a prominent late 13th-century Scottish nobleman and military leader who played a key role in the early Wars of Scottish Independence.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick V, Earl of March canonical | 2 |
| Patrick Dunbar, Earl of March | 1 |
| Patrick, Earl of March | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11041012 — 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: Patrick V, Earl of March Context triple: [Battle of Dunbar (1296), commander, Patrick V, Earl of March]
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A.
George Dunbar, Earl of March
George Dunbar, Earl of March, was a powerful 14th-century Scottish nobleman and military leader who played a prominent role in the Anglo-Scottish border conflicts.
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B.
Edward, Earl of March
Edward, Earl of March—later King Edward IV of England—was a leading Yorkist claimant to the English throne during the Wars of the Roses.
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C.
William Douglas, 2nd Earl of March
William Douglas, 2nd Earl of March, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician from the influential Douglas family, whose titles and estates later passed to his son, the 4th Duke of Queensberry.
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D.
3rd Earl of March
The 3rd Earl of March was a Scottish noble title in the Douglas family, later associated with William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, during the 18th century.
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E.
1st Earl of March
The 1st Earl of March was an English noble title held by Roger Mortimer, a powerful medieval magnate central to the deposition of King Edward II.
- 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: Patrick V, Earl of March Target entity description: Patrick V, Earl of March, was a prominent late 13th-century Scottish nobleman and military leader who played a key role in the early Wars of Scottish Independence.
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A.
George Dunbar, Earl of March
George Dunbar, Earl of March, was a powerful 14th-century Scottish nobleman and military leader who played a prominent role in the Anglo-Scottish border conflicts.
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B.
Edward, Earl of March
Edward, Earl of March—later King Edward IV of England—was a leading Yorkist claimant to the English throne during the Wars of the Roses.
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C.
William Douglas, 2nd Earl of March
William Douglas, 2nd Earl of March, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician from the influential Douglas family, whose titles and estates later passed to his son, the 4th Duke of Queensberry.
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D.
3rd Earl of March
The 3rd Earl of March was a Scottish noble title in the Douglas family, later associated with William Douglas, 4th Duke of Queensberry, during the 18th century.
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E.
1st Earl of March
The 1st Earl of March was an English noble title held by Roger Mortimer, a powerful medieval magnate central to the deposition of King Edward II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Earl
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Scottish nobleman ⓘ medieval noble ⓘ member of the Scottish nobility ⓘ military leader ⓘ |
| activityEndCentury | 14th century ⓘ |
| activityStartCentury | 13th century ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Patrick Dunbar, Earl of March
ⓘ
linked to:
Patrick V, Earl of March
|
| aristocraticTitleOrdinal | 5 ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Scottish Marches
ⓘ
linked to:
Scottish Borders
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| era | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| familyName | Dunbar ⓘ |
| feudalStatus | feudal lord ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Patrick ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Scotland ⓘ |
| languageOfUse |
Latin
ⓘ
Scots ⓘ |
| militaryRole | Scottish military leader ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Dunbar family ⓘ |
| nobleRank | Earl ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Earl of March ⓘ |
| notableFor |
prominent Scottish nobleman in the late 13th century
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role in the early Wars of Scottish Independence ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Wars of Scottish Independence
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linked to:
First War of Scottish Independence
|
| politicalAlignment | Scottish cause in the Wars of Independence ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Earl of March ⓘ |
| region |
Marches of Scotland
ⓘ
linked to:
Border Reivers
|
| timePeriod |
early 14th century
ⓘ
late 13th century ⓘ |
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: Patrick V, Earl of March Description of subject: Patrick V, Earl of March, was a prominent late 13th-century Scottish nobleman and military leader who played a key role in the early Wars of Scottish Independence.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland
linked to: Patrick V, Earl of March
linked to: Patrick V, Earl of March