2021 Scottish Parliament election
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The 2021 Scottish Parliament election was a nationwide vote to elect Members of the Scottish Parliament, shaping the political balance and government of Scotland for the subsequent parliamentary term.
All labels observed (1)
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| 2021 Scottish Parliament election canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11288561 — 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: 2021 Scottish Parliament election Context triple: [Edinburgh Southern, hasParliamentaryElection, 2021 Scottish Parliament election]
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A.
2016 Scottish Parliament election
The 2016 Scottish Parliament election was a nationwide vote to elect Members of the Scottish Parliament, resulting in the Scottish National Party remaining the largest party but losing its overall majority and leading to a continued SNP minority government.
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B.
2011 Scottish Parliament election
The 2011 Scottish Parliament election was a nationwide legislative election in Scotland that resulted in a historic majority government for the Scottish National Party under Alex Salmond.
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C.
Scottish Parliament elections
Scottish Parliament elections are the regular democratic contests in which voters in Scotland choose Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) to represent them in the devolved legislature.
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D.
Scottish Parliament election, 1999
The Scottish Parliament election of 1999 was the first election to the newly established devolved legislature in Scotland, marking the formal restoration of a Scottish parliament after nearly 300 years.
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E.
Scottish local government elections
Scottish local government elections are periodic polls to choose councillors for Scotland’s 32 local authorities, conducted using a proportional representation system to determine local governance.
- 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: 2021 Scottish Parliament election Target entity description: The 2021 Scottish Parliament election was a nationwide vote to elect Members of the Scottish Parliament, shaping the political balance and government of Scotland for the subsequent parliamentary term.
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A.
2016 Scottish Parliament election
The 2016 Scottish Parliament election was a nationwide vote to elect Members of the Scottish Parliament, resulting in the Scottish National Party remaining the largest party but losing its overall majority and leading to a continued SNP minority government.
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B.
2011 Scottish Parliament election
The 2011 Scottish Parliament election was a nationwide legislative election in Scotland that resulted in a historic majority government for the Scottish National Party under Alex Salmond.
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C.
Scottish Parliament elections
Scottish Parliament elections are the regular democratic contests in which voters in Scotland choose Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs) to represent them in the devolved legislature.
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D.
Scottish Parliament election, 1999
The Scottish Parliament election of 1999 was the first election to the newly established devolved legislature in Scotland, marking the formal restoration of a Scottish parliament after nearly 300 years.
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E.
Scottish local government elections
Scottish local government elections are periodic polls to choose councillors for Scotland’s 32 local authorities, conducted using a proportional representation system to determine local governance.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: 2021 Scottish Parliament election Description of subject: The 2021 Scottish Parliament election was a nationwide vote to elect Members of the Scottish Parliament, shaping the political balance and government of Scotland for the subsequent parliamentary term.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.