Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland
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The Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland was a senior Great Officer of State responsible for the custody and use of the monarch’s privy seal in Scottish governance and administration.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland canonical | 2 |
| Lord Privy Seal of Scotland | 2 |
| Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2829651 — 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: Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland Context triple: [James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Queensberry, positionHeld, Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland]
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A.
Prince and Great Steward of Scotland
The Prince and Great Steward of Scotland is a historic Scottish royal title traditionally held by the heir apparent to the Scottish, and later British, throne, reflecting both princely rank and stewardship over the kingdom.
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B.
Lord Steward of the Household
The Lord Steward of the Household is a senior official of the British Royal Household historically responsible for overseeing the domestic affairs and management of the royal court.
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C.
Lord Privy Seal
The Lord Privy Seal is a senior ministerial office in the British government, historically responsible for the monarch’s privy seal but now largely a sinecure often combined with other cabinet duties.
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D.
Clerk of the Privy Council
The Clerk of the Privy Council is Canada’s top non-partisan public servant, serving as the head of the federal public service and principal advisor to the Prime Minister on public service matters.
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E.
Lord High Steward
The Lord High Steward is a senior Great Officer of State in England historically responsible for presiding over the House of Lords during trials of peers and for ceremonial duties at coronations.
- 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: Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland Target entity description: The Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland was a senior Great Officer of State responsible for the custody and use of the monarch’s privy seal in Scottish governance and administration.
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A.
Prince and Great Steward of Scotland
The Prince and Great Steward of Scotland is a historic Scottish royal title traditionally held by the heir apparent to the Scottish, and later British, throne, reflecting both princely rank and stewardship over the kingdom.
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B.
Lord Steward of the Household
The Lord Steward of the Household is a senior official of the British Royal Household historically responsible for overseeing the domestic affairs and management of the royal court.
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C.
Lord Privy Seal
The Lord Privy Seal is a senior ministerial office in the British government, historically responsible for the monarch’s privy seal but now largely a sinecure often combined with other cabinet duties.
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D.
Clerk of the Privy Council
The Clerk of the Privy Council is Canada’s top non-partisan public servant, serving as the head of the federal public service and principal advisor to the Prime Minister on public service matters.
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E.
Lord High Steward
The Lord High Steward is a senior Great Officer of State in England historically responsible for presiding over the House of Lords during trials of peers and for ceremonial duties at coronations.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Great Officer of State of Scotland
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government office ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Scotland ⓘ |
| associatedWithInstitution |
Privy Council of Scotland
ⓘ
surface form:
Scottish Privy Council
Scottish royal court ⓘ |
| category |
Ceremonial officers in Scotland
ⓘ
Scottish constitutional law ⓘ Scottish legal history ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| governsProcess |
issuing of writs under the privy seal
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sealing of commissions and grants under the privy seal ⓘ sealing of royal charters under the privy seal ⓘ |
| hasDuty |
authentication of royal documents under the privy seal
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custody of the monarch’s privy seal in Scotland ⓘ use of the monarch’s privy seal in Scottish governance ⓘ |
| hasRank | senior officer of state ⓘ |
| hasSealType | privy seal ⓘ |
| hasSymbol | Privy Seal of Scotland ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
early modern Scotland
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medieval Scotland ⓘ |
| isPartOfSeries |
Great Officers of State of the United Kingdom
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surface form:
Great Officers of State of Scotland
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| languageOfOfficialName |
Latin
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Scots ⓘ |
| officeCreatedBy |
Scottish crown
ⓘ
surface form:
Scottish Crown
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| partOf |
Scottish Government
ⓘ
surface form:
Scottish government
Government of the Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ
surface form:
Scottish royal administration
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| positionType |
honorific office
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office of the Crown ⓘ |
| relatedTo |
Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland
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surface form:
Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland
Lord Chancellor of Scotland ⓘ Secretary of State of Scotland ⓘ
surface form:
Secretary of State for Scotland (historical office)
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| scopeOfAuthority | royal documents not requiring the Great Seal ⓘ |
| subordinateTo |
crown of Scotland
ⓘ
surface form:
Crown of Scotland
monarch of Scotland ⓘ |
| uses | Privy Seal of Scotland ⓘ |
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: Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland Description of subject: The Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland was a senior Great Officer of State responsible for the custody and use of the monarch’s privy seal in Scottish governance and administration.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Lord Privy Seal of Scotland
this entity surface form:
Lord Privy Seal of Scotland
this entity surface form:
Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland