Lulach of Scotland
E91790
Lulach of Scotland was a short-reigning 11th-century King of Scots, known for succeeding Macbeth and being quickly overthrown by Malcolm III.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin | 9 |
| Lulach of Scotland canonical | 9 |
| King Lulach of Scotland | 1 |
| Lulach, King of Scots | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T663226 — 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: Lulach of Scotland Context triple: [Malcolm III of Scotland, predecessor, Lulach of Scotland]
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Edgar, King of Scotland
Edgar, King of Scotland was a late 11th-century Scottish monarch from the House of Dunkeld who ruled after the turbulent reigns of his father Malcolm III and brother Donald III, helping to stabilize the kingdom.
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Alexander I of Scotland
Alexander I of Scotland was a 12th-century King of Scots known for consolidating royal authority and supporting ecclesiastical reform.
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Alexander II of Scotland
Alexander II of Scotland was a 13th-century King of Scots (reigning from 1214 to 1249) known for consolidating royal authority, resolving conflicts with England, and expanding Scottish influence into the Western Isles.
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Malcolm IV of Scotland
Malcolm IV of Scotland was a 12th-century King of Scots, known as "the Maiden," who ruled from 1153 to 1165 and continued the consolidation of royal authority begun by his grandfather David I.
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William I of Scotland
William I of Scotland, also known as William the Lion, was a 12th–13th century King of Scots whose long reign was marked by efforts to assert Scottish independence from English overlordship.
- 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: Lulach of Scotland Target entity description: Lulach of Scotland was a short-reigning 11th-century King of Scots, known for succeeding Macbeth and being quickly overthrown by Malcolm III.
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A.
Edgar, King of Scotland
Edgar, King of Scotland was a late 11th-century Scottish monarch from the House of Dunkeld who ruled after the turbulent reigns of his father Malcolm III and brother Donald III, helping to stabilize the kingdom.
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B.
Alexander I of Scotland
Alexander I of Scotland was a 12th-century King of Scots known for consolidating royal authority and supporting ecclesiastical reform.
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C.
Alexander II of Scotland
Alexander II of Scotland was a 13th-century King of Scots (reigning from 1214 to 1249) known for consolidating royal authority, resolving conflicts with England, and expanding Scottish influence into the Western Isles.
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Malcolm IV of Scotland
Malcolm IV of Scotland was a 12th-century King of Scots, known as "the Maiden," who ruled from 1153 to 1165 and continued the consolidation of royal authority begun by his grandfather David I.
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E.
William I of Scotland
William I of Scotland, also known as William the Lion, was a 12th–13th century King of Scots whose long reign was marked by efforts to assert Scottish independence from English overlordship.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Lulach of Scotland Description of subject: Lulach of Scotland was a short-reigning 11th-century King of Scots, known for succeeding Macbeth and being quickly overthrown by Malcolm III.
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