James VII of Scotland
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James VII of Scotland (also James II of England and Ireland) was the last Catholic monarch of Britain, whose reign ended with the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James VII of Scotland canonical | 36 |
| James VII and II | 4 |
| James VII of Scotland (James II of England) | 2 |
| Charles II of Scotland | 1 |
| James II of England and VII of Scotland | 1 |
| James Stuart | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T231075 — 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: James VII of Scotland Context triple: [Order of the Thistle, foundedBy, James VII of Scotland]
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James II of Scotland
James II of Scotland was a 15th-century king whose turbulent reign was marked by efforts to curb the power of the great nobles and consolidate royal authority before his death in 1460.
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James V of Scotland
James V of Scotland was a 16th-century King of Scots from the House of Stuart and the father of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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James I of Scotland
James I of Scotland was a 15th-century King of Scots whose turbulent reign was marked by his long English captivity, efforts to centralize royal authority, and eventual assassination in 1437.
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James VI and I
James VI and I was the late 16th- and early 17th-century monarch who united the crowns of Scotland and England, inaugurating the Stuart era of rule over a newly shared kingdom.
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E.
Alexander III of Scotland
Alexander III of Scotland was a 13th-century King of Scots whose reign is noted for relative peace, prosperity, and the consolidation of Scottish independence, particularly through the acquisition of the Western Isles.
- 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: James VII of Scotland Target entity description: James VII of Scotland (also James II of England and Ireland) was the last Catholic monarch of Britain, whose reign ended with the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
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A.
James II of Scotland
James II of Scotland was a 15th-century king whose turbulent reign was marked by efforts to curb the power of the great nobles and consolidate royal authority before his death in 1460.
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B.
James V of Scotland
James V of Scotland was a 16th-century King of Scots from the House of Stuart and the father of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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C.
James I of Scotland
James I of Scotland was a 15th-century King of Scots whose turbulent reign was marked by his long English captivity, efforts to centralize royal authority, and eventual assassination in 1437.
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D.
James VI and I
James VI and I was the late 16th- and early 17th-century monarch who united the crowns of Scotland and England, inaugurating the Stuart era of rule over a newly shared kingdom.
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E.
Alexander III of Scotland
Alexander III of Scotland was a 13th-century King of Scots whose reign is noted for relative peace, prosperity, and the consolidation of Scottish independence, particularly through the acquisition of the Western Isles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: James VII of Scotland Description of subject: James VII of Scotland (also James II of England and Ireland) was the last Catholic monarch of Britain, whose reign ended with the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
Referenced by (45)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
James Stuart
this entity surface form:
Charles II of Scotland
this entity surface form:
James II of England and VII of Scotland
this entity surface form:
James VII of Scotland (James II of England)
this entity surface form:
James VII of Scotland (James II of England)
Charles Edward Louis John Casimir Sylvester Severino Maria Stuart
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grandfather
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James VII of Scotland
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this entity surface form:
James VII and II
subject surface form:
John Graham of Claverhouse
this entity surface form:
James VII and II
this entity surface form:
James VII and II
this entity surface form:
James VII and II