Alexander de Brus
E143435
Alexander de Brus was a Scottish nobleman of the influential Bruce family, known primarily as a brother of King Robert the Bruce and a supporter of his cause during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Alexander de Brus canonical | 2 |
| Alexander Bruce | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T812303 — 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: Alexander de Brus Context triple: [House of Bruce, hasPart, Alexander de Brus]
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A.
Thomas de Brus
Thomas de Brus was a medieval Scottish nobleman of the influential Bruce family, known primarily as a brother of King Robert the Bruce and a participant in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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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.
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.
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D.
William II of Scotland
William II of Scotland, better known as William III of England, was the Dutch-born Protestant prince who came to the British throne in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and ruled jointly with his wife Mary II.
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E.
Robert II of Scotland
Robert II of Scotland was the first Stewart king of Scotland, whose accession in 1371 began the long-ruling Stuart dynasty that would later govern both Scotland and England.
- 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: Alexander de Brus Target entity description: Alexander de Brus was a Scottish nobleman of the influential Bruce family, known primarily as a brother of King Robert the Bruce and a supporter of his cause during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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A.
Thomas de Brus
Thomas de Brus was a medieval Scottish nobleman of the influential Bruce family, known primarily as a brother of King Robert the Bruce and a participant in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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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.
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.
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D.
William II of Scotland
William II of Scotland, better known as William III of England, was the Dutch-born Protestant prince who came to the British throne in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and ruled jointly with his wife Mary II.
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E.
Robert II of Scotland
Robert II of Scotland was the first Stewart king of Scotland, whose accession in 1371 began the long-ruling Stuart dynasty that would later govern both Scotland and England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish nobleman
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medieval noble ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
early 14th century
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late 13th century ⓘ |
| brotherOf | Robert the Bruce ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scots ⓘ |
| familyName | Bruce ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Robert the Bruce ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Latin
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Scots ⓘ |
| memberOf | Bruce family ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Scottish noble ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being brother of King Robert the Bruce
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supporting Bruce cause in Wars of Scottish Independence ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
First War of Scottish Independence
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surface form:
Wars of Scottish Independence
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| partOf | Scottish nobility ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Scottish nobleman ⓘ |
| religion |
Christianity
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Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | Scotland ⓘ |
| sibling | Robert the Bruce ⓘ |
| supported |
Robert the Bruce
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cause of Scottish independence ⓘ |
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: Alexander de Brus Description of subject: Alexander de Brus was a Scottish nobleman of the influential Bruce family, known primarily as a brother of King Robert the Bruce and a supporter of his cause during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Alexander Bruce