Duncan II of Scotland
E93515
Duncan II of Scotland was a briefly reigning 11th-century King of Scots whose short and turbulent rule followed that of his father, Malcolm III.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Duncan II of Scotland canonical | 17 |
| Duncan mac Malcolm | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T663228 — 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: Duncan II of Scotland Context triple: [Malcolm III of Scotland, successor, Duncan II of Scotland]
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Donald III of Scotland
Donald III of Scotland was a late 11th-century King of Scots whose brief and contested reign followed that of his brother Malcolm III amid dynastic struggles for the Scottish throne.
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Alexander III of Scotland
Alexander III of Scotland was a 13th-century King of Scots whose reign is noted for relative peace, prosperity, and the consolidation of Scottish independence, particularly through the acquisition of 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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Malcolm III of Scotland
Malcolm III of Scotland was an 11th-century King of Scots whose long reign helped consolidate the Scottish kingdom and establish the House of Dunkeld.
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James III of Scotland
James III of Scotland was a 15th-century king whose troubled reign was marked by internal noble rebellions and his eventual overthrow and death in 1488.
- 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: Duncan II of Scotland Target entity description: Duncan II of Scotland was a briefly reigning 11th-century King of Scots whose short and turbulent rule followed that of his father, Malcolm III.
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Donald III of Scotland
Donald III of Scotland was a late 11th-century King of Scots whose brief and contested reign followed that of his brother Malcolm III amid dynastic struggles for the Scottish throne.
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B.
Alexander III of Scotland
Alexander III of Scotland was a 13th-century King of Scots whose reign is noted for relative peace, prosperity, and the consolidation of Scottish independence, particularly through the acquisition of the Western Isles.
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C.
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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Malcolm III of Scotland
Malcolm III of Scotland was an 11th-century King of Scots whose long reign helped consolidate the Scottish kingdom and establish the House of Dunkeld.
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James III of Scotland
James III of Scotland was a 15th-century king whose troubled reign was marked by internal noble rebellions and his eventual overthrow and death in 1488.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Duncan II of Scotland Description of subject: Duncan II of Scotland was a briefly reigning 11th-century King of Scots whose short and turbulent rule followed that of his father, Malcolm III.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Duncan II of Scotland