Walter de Burgh of Kintyre
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Walter de Burgh of Kintyre was a medieval Anglo-Norman nobleman of the influential de Burgh family, associated with lands in Kintyre in western Scotland.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter de Burgh of Kintyre canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12733780 — 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: Walter de Burgh of Kintyre Context triple: [Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster, child, Walter de Burgh of Kintyre]
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A.
John de Burgh
John de Burgh was an Anglo-Irish nobleman of the early 14th century, heir to the Earldom of Ulster and a member of the powerful de Burgh (Burke) dynasty.
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B.
Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster
Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster, was a prominent 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman who expanded his family's power in Ireland and established the de Burghs as one of the island's leading dynasties.
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C.
Edmund de Burgh
Edmund de Burgh was a member of the powerful Anglo-Norman de Burgh family in medieval Ireland, connected by kinship to Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scots.
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D.
John de Courcy
John de Courcy was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman knight and adventurer who led the Norman conquest of much of Ulster in Ireland and ruled there as a powerful semi-independent lord.
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E.
Hugh, Earl of Ross
Hugh, Earl of Ross was a 14th-century Scottish nobleman and regional magnate who held the earldom of Ross in the northern Highlands.
- 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: Walter de Burgh of Kintyre Target entity description: Walter de Burgh of Kintyre was a medieval Anglo-Norman nobleman of the influential de Burgh family, associated with lands in Kintyre in western Scotland.
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A.
John de Burgh
John de Burgh was an Anglo-Irish nobleman of the early 14th century, heir to the Earldom of Ulster and a member of the powerful de Burgh (Burke) dynasty.
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B.
Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster
Walter de Burgh, 1st Earl of Ulster, was a prominent 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman who expanded his family's power in Ireland and established the de Burghs as one of the island's leading dynasties.
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C.
Edmund de Burgh
Edmund de Burgh was a member of the powerful Anglo-Norman de Burgh family in medieval Ireland, connected by kinship to Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scots.
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D.
John de Courcy
John de Courcy was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman knight and adventurer who led the Norman conquest of much of Ulster in Ireland and ruled there as a powerful semi-independent lord.
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E.
Hugh, Earl of Ross
Hugh, Earl of Ross was a 14th-century Scottish nobleman and regional magnate who held the earldom of Ross in the northern Highlands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglo-Norman nobleman
ⓘ
medieval nobleman ⓘ member of the de Burgh family ⓘ |
| areaOfInfluence |
Kintyre peninsula
ⓘ
linked to:
Kintyre
western Scotland ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty |
de Burgh dynasty
ⓘ
linked to:
de Burgh family
|
| associatedWith | Kintyre ⓘ |
| category |
Anglo-Normans in Scotland
ⓘ
Medieval Scottish nobility ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Anglo-Norman ⓘ |
| familyName |
de Burgh
ⓘ
linked to:
de Burgh family
|
| givenName | Walter ⓘ |
| hasAncestry |
English
ⓘ
Norman ⓘ |
| historicalContext | feudal Scotland ⓘ |
| landholdings | Kintyre ⓘ |
| languageOfEnvironment |
Anglo-Norman French
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglo-Norman
Latin ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | de Burgh family ⓘ |
| notableFor | association with lands in Kintyre ⓘ |
| partOf | Anglo-Norman aristocracy in Scotland ⓘ |
| region | western Scotland ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Middle Ages ⓘ |
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: Walter de Burgh of Kintyre Description of subject: Walter de Burgh of Kintyre was a medieval Anglo-Norman nobleman of the influential de Burgh family, associated with lands in Kintyre in western Scotland.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
2nd Earl of Ulster