Earl of Angus
E322713
The Earl of Angus is a historic Scottish noble title long associated with the powerful Douglas family, prominent in medieval and early modern Scottish politics and warfare.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Earl of Angus canonical | 21 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2741334 — 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: Earl of Angus Context triple: [Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas, heldTitle, Earl of Angus]
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A.
Earl of Mar
The Earl of Mar was a prominent Scottish noble title whose holders played key roles in medieval and early modern Scottish politics, including leadership in major uprisings.
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B.
Earl of Arran
The Earl of Arran is a hereditary British peerage title historically associated with members of the aristocracy who have held various political and governmental roles in the United Kingdom.
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C.
Earl of Atholl
The Earl of Atholl is a historic Scottish peerage title associated with the powerful Atholl family and the mountainous region of Atholl in the central Highlands.
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D.
Earl of Strathearn
The Earl of Strathearn was a prominent medieval Scottish noble title associated with the ruling dynasty and the historic province of Strathearn in central Scotland.
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E.
Earl of Carrick
The Earl of Carrick was a medieval Scottish noble title associated with the ruling family of Carrick in southwestern Scotland, notably held by Robert the Bruce before he became King of Scots.
- 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: Earl of Angus Target entity description: The Earl of Angus is a historic Scottish noble title long associated with the powerful Douglas family, prominent in medieval and early modern Scottish politics and warfare.
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A.
Earl of Mar
The Earl of Mar was a prominent Scottish noble title whose holders played key roles in medieval and early modern Scottish politics, including leadership in major uprisings.
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B.
Earl of Arran
The Earl of Arran is a hereditary British peerage title historically associated with members of the aristocracy who have held various political and governmental roles in the United Kingdom.
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C.
Earl of Atholl
The Earl of Atholl is a historic Scottish peerage title associated with the powerful Atholl family and the mountainous region of Atholl in the central Highlands.
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D.
Earl of Strathearn
The Earl of Strathearn was a prominent medieval Scottish noble title associated with the ruling dynasty and the historic province of Strathearn in central Scotland.
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E.
Earl of Carrick
The Earl of Carrick was a medieval Scottish noble title associated with the ruling family of Carrick in southwestern Scotland, notably held by Robert the Bruce before he became King of Scots.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: Earl of Angus Description of subject: The Earl of Angus is a historic Scottish noble title long associated with the powerful Douglas family, prominent in medieval and early modern Scottish politics and warfare.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas
subject surface form:
Douglas Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton
subject surface form:
Archibald Douglas, 11th Earl of Angus
subject surface form:
Archibald Douglas, 11th Earl of Angus