Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas
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Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas, was a prominent Scottish nobleman of the early 18th century and the last male head of the powerful Douglas family.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Duke of Douglas | 6 |
| Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2741329 — 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: Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas Context triple: [Dukes of Douglas, hasTitleHolder, Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas]
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William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas
William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 14th-century Scottish nobleman and military leader who became the progenitor of the influential Black Douglas branch of the Douglas family.
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B.
James Douglas, Lord of Douglas
James Douglas, Lord of Douglas was a prominent Scottish noble and military leader who became one of Robert the Bruce’s most trusted lieutenants and a key figure in Scotland’s struggle for independence from England.
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James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas
James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas was a powerful 14th-century Scottish noble and military leader, prominent in the Wars of Scottish Independence and a key figure of the influential Black Douglas family.
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D.
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Douglas
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Douglas was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and peer whose death without direct heirs led to the famous Douglas Cause inheritance dispute.
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Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas
Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman and military leader who played a major role in the turbulent politics and warfare of late medieval Scotland.
- 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: Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas Target entity description: Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas, was a prominent Scottish nobleman of the early 18th century and the last male head of the powerful Douglas family.
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A.
William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas
William Douglas, 1st Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 14th-century Scottish nobleman and military leader who became the progenitor of the influential Black Douglas branch of the Douglas family.
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B.
James Douglas, Lord of Douglas
James Douglas, Lord of Douglas was a prominent Scottish noble and military leader who became one of Robert the Bruce’s most trusted lieutenants and a key figure in Scotland’s struggle for independence from England.
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C.
James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas
James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Douglas was a powerful 14th-century Scottish noble and military leader, prominent in the Wars of Scottish Independence and a key figure of the influential Black Douglas family.
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D.
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Douglas
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Douglas was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and peer whose death without direct heirs led to the famous Douglas Cause inheritance dispute.
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E.
Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas
Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman and military leader who played a major role in the turbulent politics and warfare of late medieval Scotland.
- 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: Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas Description of subject: Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas, was a prominent Scottish nobleman of the early 18th century and the last male head of the powerful Douglas family.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas
this entity surface form:
Duke of Douglas
this entity surface form:
Duke of Douglas
this entity surface form:
Duke of Douglas
Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas
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nobleTitle
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Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas
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this entity surface form:
Duke of Douglas
Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas
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positionHeld
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Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas
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this entity surface form:
Duke of Douglas
Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas
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titleCreated
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Archibald Douglas, 1st Duke of Douglas
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this entity surface form:
Duke of Douglas