Border Reivers
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The Border Reivers were lawless raiders and clans along the Anglo-Scottish border from the late Middle Ages to the early 17th century, notorious for cattle rustling, feuding, and cross-border warfare.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Border Reivers canonical | 4 |
| Border reivers | 2 |
| Anglo-Scottish border reivers | 1 |
| Border Reivers history collection | 1 |
| Borderlands of Scotland | 1 |
| English–Scottish border reivers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2549758 — 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.
Target entity: Border Reivers Context triple: [Liddesdale, knownFor, Border Reivers]
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A.
The Reivers
The Reivers is a 1962 novel by William Faulkner, a humorous coming-of-age tale set in the American South that was his last published work and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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B.
The Mearns
The Mearns is a historic area of northeast Scotland, roughly corresponding to Kincardineshire, known for its coastal landscapes, agricultural heritage, and literary associations with Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
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C.
Beyond the Pale
Beyond the Pale is a popular stand-up comedy special by Jim Gaffigan, best known for its clean humor and iconic routines about food, laziness, and everyday life.
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D.
Cellardyke
Cellardyke is a historic fishing village on the east coast of Fife, Scotland, now effectively forming part of the town of Anstruther.
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E.
Black 47
Black 47 is a 2018 Irish historical revenge thriller film set during the Great Famine, following a deserter from the British Army who returns home to find his family destroyed by starvation and injustice.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Border Reivers Target entity description: The Border Reivers were lawless raiders and clans along the Anglo-Scottish border from the late Middle Ages to the early 17th century, notorious for cattle rustling, feuding, and cross-border warfare.
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A.
The Reivers
The Reivers is a 1962 novel by William Faulkner, a humorous coming-of-age tale set in the American South that was his last published work and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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B.
The Mearns
The Mearns is a historic area of northeast Scotland, roughly corresponding to Kincardineshire, known for its coastal landscapes, agricultural heritage, and literary associations with Lewis Grassic Gibbon.
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C.
Beyond the Pale
Beyond the Pale is a popular stand-up comedy special by Jim Gaffigan, best known for its clean humor and iconic routines about food, laziness, and everyday life.
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D.
Cellardyke
Cellardyke is a historic fishing village on the east coast of Fife, Scotland, now effectively forming part of the town of Anstruther.
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E.
Black 47
Black 47 is a 2018 Irish historical revenge thriller film set during the Great Famine, following a deserter from the British Army who returns home to find his family destroyed by starvation and injustice.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (81)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
book
ⓘ
historical group ⓘ military organization ⓘ raiding clans ⓘ social class ⓘ |
| activeIn |
16th century
ⓘ
early 17th century ⓘ late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| author | George MacDonald Fraser ⓘ |
| country |
Kingdom of England
ⓘ
Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| culturalDepiction | The Steel Bonnets ⓘ |
| dissolutionDate | early 17th century ⓘ |
| dissolvedBy |
Union of the Crowns
ⓘ
pacification of the Borders ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
English
ⓘ
Scottish ⓘ |
| governedByLaw |
Border law
ⓘ
March law ⓘ |
| hasNotableFamily |
Armstrong clan
ⓘ
Bell family ⓘ Charlton family ⓘ Dacre family ⓘ Clan Douglas ⓘ
surface form:
Douglas clan
Elliot clan ⓘ Fenwick family ⓘ Forster family ⓘ Clan Graham ⓘ
surface form:
Graham clan
Hume clan ⓘ Clan Johnstone ⓘ
surface form:
Johnstone clan
Clan Kerr ⓘ
surface form:
Ker clan
Clan Maxwell ⓘ
surface form:
Maxwell clan
Musgrave family ⓘ Nixon clan ⓘ Raine family ⓘ Ridley family ⓘ Rutherford clan ⓘ Ruthven clan ⓘ Clan Scott ⓘ
surface form:
Scott clan
Storey family ⓘ |
| hasPractice |
blood feud
ⓘ
hostage-taking ⓘ night raids ⓘ pledge-taking ⓘ reiving ⓘ |
| influenced |
American frontier culture
ⓘ
Irish Presbyterians ⓘ
surface form:
Ulster Scots settlers
|
| knownFor |
arson
ⓘ
blackmail ⓘ cattle raiding ⓘ cattle rustling ⓘ cross-border warfare ⓘ feuding ⓘ kidnapping ⓘ protection rackets ⓘ |
| locatedIn | Anglo-Scottish border ⓘ |
| operatedInRegion |
Cumberland
ⓘ
East March ⓘ Middle March ⓘ Northumberland County ⓘ
surface form:
Northumberland
Scottish Borders ⓘ West March ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Kingdom of England
ⓘ
surface form:
English Crown
Scottish crown ⓘ
surface form:
Scottish Crown
wardens of the marches ⓘ |
| partOf | Border society ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Protestantism
Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| socialStructure |
clan-based
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kinship-based ⓘ |
| usedAnimal |
horse
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pony ⓘ |
| usedLanguage |
Border dialects
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English ⓘ Scots ⓘ |
| usedWeapon |
dagger
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lance ⓘ pistol ⓘ sword ⓘ |
| wears |
light armour
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steel bonnet ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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.
Subject: Border Reivers Description of subject: The Border Reivers were lawless raiders and clans along the Anglo-Scottish border from the late Middle Ages to the early 17th century, notorious for cattle rustling, feuding, and cross-border warfare.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.