Isobel Douglas
E1009008
Isobel Douglas was a Scottish noblewoman of the Douglas family, known primarily as the daughter of William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Isabella Douglas | 2 |
| Isobel Douglas canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12616176 — 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: Isobel Douglas Context triple: [William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry, child, Isobel Douglas]
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A.
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Angus
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Angus, was a prominent 15th-century Scottish noblewoman of the Stewart family who held the Angus title in her own right and was the mother of James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas.
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B.
Margaret Stewart
Margaret Stewart was a Scottish noblewoman of the late 16th century who became the wife of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, a prominent English admiral under Queen Elizabeth I.
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C.
Margaret Stewart
Margaret Stewart was a 16th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the wife of the Protestant reformer John Knox.
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D.
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas, was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman and royal daughter whose marriage into the powerful Douglas family strengthened the political alliances of the early Stewart monarchy.
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E.
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Mar
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Mar, was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman who held the ancient earldom of Mar in her own right and played a notable role in the politics of medieval Scotland.
- 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: Isobel Douglas Target entity description: Isobel Douglas was a Scottish noblewoman of the Douglas family, known primarily as the daughter of William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry.
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A.
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Angus
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Angus, was a prominent 15th-century Scottish noblewoman of the Stewart family who held the Angus title in her own right and was the mother of James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas.
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B.
Margaret Stewart
Margaret Stewart was a Scottish noblewoman of the late 16th century who became the wife of Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, a prominent English admiral under Queen Elizabeth I.
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C.
Margaret Stewart
Margaret Stewart was a 16th-century Scottish noblewoman best known as the wife of the Protestant reformer John Knox.
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D.
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Douglas, was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman and royal daughter whose marriage into the powerful Douglas family strengthened the political alliances of the early Stewart monarchy.
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E.
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Mar
Margaret Stewart, Countess of Mar, was a 14th-century Scottish noblewoman who held the ancient earldom of Mar in her own right and played a notable role in the politics of medieval Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish nobleman
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Scottish noblewoman ⓘ member of the Scottish nobility ⓘ |
| child | Isobel Douglas ⓘ |
| continentOfCitizenship | Europe ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scots ⓘ |
| familyName | Douglas ⓘ |
| father | William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry ⓘ |
| givenName | Isobel ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Scots
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Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| memberOf | Clan Douglas ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Scots ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Earl of Queensberry
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Lady ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Douglas family ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Queensberry ⓘ |
| regionOfOrigin |
Lowlands of Scotland
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linked to:
Central Lowlands of Scotland
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| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
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: Isobel Douglas Description of subject: Isobel Douglas was a Scottish noblewoman of the Douglas family, known primarily as the daughter of William Douglas, 1st Earl of Queensberry.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.