David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon
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David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, was a 12th-century Scottish prince and nobleman, the younger brother of Kings Malcolm IV and William the Lion, whose descendants played key roles in both Scottish and English royal lineages.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon | 3 |
| David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon canonical | 2 |
| David, Earl of Huntingdon | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3345517 — 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: David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon Context triple: [Earldom of Huntingdon, hasHolder, David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon]
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David Stewart, Earl of Strathearn
David Stewart, Earl of Strathearn, was a 14th-century Scottish nobleman of the royal Stewart dynasty who held the earldom of Strathearn during the turbulent period of the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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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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Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan
Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan—known as the "Wolf of Badenoch"—was a notoriously lawless 14th-century Scottish nobleman and son of King Robert II, infamous for his brutal raids and destruction in the Highlands.
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Hugh, Earl of Ross
Hugh, Earl of Ross was a 14th-century Scottish nobleman and regional magnate who held the earldom of Ross in the northern Highlands.
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William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas
William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman whose influence and conflicts with the crown played a major role in late medieval Scottish politics.
- 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: David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon Target entity description: David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, was a 12th-century Scottish prince and nobleman, the younger brother of Kings Malcolm IV and William the Lion, whose descendants played key roles in both Scottish and English royal lineages.
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A.
David Stewart, Earl of Strathearn
David Stewart, Earl of Strathearn, was a 14th-century Scottish nobleman of the royal Stewart dynasty who held the earldom of Strathearn during the turbulent period of the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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B.
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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C.
Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan
Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan—known as the "Wolf of Badenoch"—was a notoriously lawless 14th-century Scottish nobleman and son of King Robert II, infamous for his brutal raids and destruction in the Highlands.
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D.
Hugh, Earl of Ross
Hugh, Earl of Ross was a 14th-century Scottish nobleman and regional magnate who held the earldom of Ross in the northern Highlands.
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E.
William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas
William Douglas, 6th Earl of Douglas, was a powerful 15th-century Scottish nobleman whose influence and conflicts with the crown played a major role in late medieval Scottish politics.
- 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: David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon Description of subject: David of Scotland, 8th Earl of Huntingdon, was a 12th-century Scottish prince and nobleman, the younger brother of Kings Malcolm IV and William the Lion, whose descendants played key roles in both Scottish and English royal lineages.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
David, Earl of Huntingdon
this entity surface form:
David, Earl of Huntingdon
this entity surface form:
David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon
Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale
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this entity surface form:
David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon
this entity surface form:
David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon