Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland
E177325
Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland, was a prominent 14th-century Scottish noble whose lineage and position as High Steward helped lay the foundations for the Stewart (Stuart) royal dynasty.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland canonical | 6 |
| Walter Stewart | 1 |
| Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1124440 — 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 Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland Context triple: [Robert II of Scotland, father, Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland]
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Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale, was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman who became a powerful Scottish baron and progenitor of the Bruce dynasty that later produced King Robert the Bruce.
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B.
Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent 13th-century Scottish noble and claimant to the Scottish throne whose lineage led directly to King Robert the Bruce.
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C.
James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas
James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman and magnate whose conflict with King James II led to his murder and the downfall of the Black Douglas family.
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D.
Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and feudal lord whose lineage and claims to the Scottish throne paved the way for his son, Robert the Bruce, to become King of Scots.
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E.
James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas
James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish noble whose rebellion against King James II led to the downfall and forfeiture of the once-dominant Black Douglas family.
- 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 Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland Target entity description: Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland, was a prominent 14th-century Scottish noble whose lineage and position as High Steward helped lay the foundations for the Stewart (Stuart) royal dynasty.
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A.
Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale, was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman who became a powerful Scottish baron and progenitor of the Bruce dynasty that later produced King Robert the Bruce.
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B.
Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent 13th-century Scottish noble and claimant to the Scottish throne whose lineage led directly to King Robert the Bruce.
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C.
James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas
James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman and magnate whose conflict with King James II led to his murder and the downfall of the Black Douglas family.
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D.
Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and feudal lord whose lineage and claims to the Scottish throne paved the way for his son, Robert the Bruce, to become King of Scots.
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E.
James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas
James Douglas, 9th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish noble whose rebellion against King James II led to the downfall and forfeiture of the once-dominant Black Douglas family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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 Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland Description of subject: Walter Stewart, 6th High Steward of Scotland, was a prominent 14th-century Scottish noble whose lineage and position as High Steward helped lay the foundations for the Stewart (Stuart) royal dynasty.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl
this entity surface form:
Walter Stewart