Forces of Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar
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The Forces of Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar were the Lowland and loyalist army that opposed Donald of Islay’s Highland host in the 1411 Battle of Harlaw, a pivotal clash in medieval Scottish history.
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| Forces of Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T14425767 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Forces of Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar Context triple: [Battle of Harlaw, belligerent, Forces of Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar]
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Montrose’s 1644–1645 Scottish campaign
Montrose’s 1644–1645 Scottish campaign was a series of swift and devastating Royalist victories in Scotland during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, led by James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, using a small, mobile force of Highlanders and Irish troops.
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Black Douglas family forces
The Black Douglas family forces were the private army of the powerful Douglas noble house in 15th-century Scotland, ultimately defeated by royal troops in conflicts such as the Battle of Arkinholm.
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Battle of Sheriffmuir
The Battle of Sheriffmuir was an inconclusive 1715 clash in Scotland between Jacobite forces and the British government army that effectively halted the Jacobite advance during the rising of 1715.
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Siege of Leith
The Siege of Leith was a 1560 military campaign in which Scottish Protestant lords, aided by English forces, besieged the French-held port of Leith, leading to the withdrawal of French troops from Scotland and a major shift in the Scottish Reformation.
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The Battle of Stirling
"The Battle of Stirling" is a dramatic orchestral cue from James Horner’s score for the film *Braveheart*, underscoring the movie’s pivotal large-scale battle sequence with intense, emotionally charged music.
- 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: Forces of Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar Target entity description: The Forces of Alexander Stewart, Earl of Mar were the Lowland and loyalist army that opposed Donald of Islay’s Highland host in the 1411 Battle of Harlaw, a pivotal clash in medieval Scottish history.
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A.
Montrose’s 1644–1645 Scottish campaign
Montrose’s 1644–1645 Scottish campaign was a series of swift and devastating Royalist victories in Scotland during the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, led by James Graham, Marquis of Montrose, using a small, mobile force of Highlanders and Irish troops.
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B.
Black Douglas family forces
The Black Douglas family forces were the private army of the powerful Douglas noble house in 15th-century Scotland, ultimately defeated by royal troops in conflicts such as the Battle of Arkinholm.
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C.
Battle of Sheriffmuir
The Battle of Sheriffmuir was an inconclusive 1715 clash in Scotland between Jacobite forces and the British government army that effectively halted the Jacobite advance during the rising of 1715.
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D.
Siege of Leith
The Siege of Leith was a 1560 military campaign in which Scottish Protestant lords, aided by English forces, besieged the French-held port of Leith, leading to the withdrawal of French troops from Scotland and a major shift in the Scottish Reformation.
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E.
The Battle of Stirling
"The Battle of Stirling" is a dramatic orchestral cue from James Horner’s score for the film *Braveheart*, underscoring the movie’s pivotal large-scale battle sequence with intense, emotionally charged music.
- F. None of above. chosen
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