Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim
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Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim, better known as Duncan II of Scotland, was a briefly reigning 11th-century Scottish king and son of Malcolm III who ruled during a turbulent period of dynastic conflict.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim canonical | 2 |
| Donnchadh mac Maíl Coluim | 2 |
| Donnchad mac Crínáin | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3843718 — 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: Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim Context triple: [Duncan II of Scotland, alsoKnownAs, Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim]
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A.
Domnall mac Ailpín
Domnall mac Ailpín was a 9th-century king of the Picts (often regarded as an early king of Scotland) and a member of the Alpin dynasty who ruled after Kenneth MacAlpin.
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Domnall mac Donnchada
Domnall mac Donnchada, better known as Donald III of Scotland, was a late 11th-century King of Scots whose turbulent reign was marked by dynastic struggles and repeated depositions.
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C.
Eochaid of Scotland
Eochaid of Scotland was a late 9th-century king traditionally associated with the House of Alpin, whose brief and disputed reign forms part of the early medieval history of the Scottish monarchy.
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D.
Donnchad I, Earl of Fife
Donnchad I, Earl of Fife, was a prominent 12th-century Scottish nobleman and mormaer of Fife who played a key role in the early medieval Kingdom of Scotland.
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E.
Donnchad V, Earl of Fife
Donnchad V, Earl of Fife, was a medieval Scottish nobleman from the influential MacDuff family who held one of the kingdom’s most prestigious earldoms and played a key role in the politics of his time.
- 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: Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim Target entity description: Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim, better known as Duncan II of Scotland, was a briefly reigning 11th-century Scottish king and son of Malcolm III who ruled during a turbulent period of dynastic conflict.
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A.
Domnall mac Ailpín
Domnall mac Ailpín was a 9th-century king of the Picts (often regarded as an early king of Scotland) and a member of the Alpin dynasty who ruled after Kenneth MacAlpin.
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B.
Domnall mac Donnchada
Domnall mac Donnchada, better known as Donald III of Scotland, was a late 11th-century King of Scots whose turbulent reign was marked by dynastic struggles and repeated depositions.
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C.
Eochaid of Scotland
Eochaid of Scotland was a late 9th-century king traditionally associated with the House of Alpin, whose brief and disputed reign forms part of the early medieval history of the Scottish monarchy.
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D.
Donnchad I, Earl of Fife
Donnchad I, Earl of Fife, was a prominent 12th-century Scottish nobleman and mormaer of Fife who played a key role in the early medieval Kingdom of Scotland.
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E.
Donnchad V, Earl of Fife
Donnchad V, Earl of Fife, was a medieval Scottish nobleman from the influential MacDuff family who held one of the kingdom’s most prestigious earldoms and played a key role in the politics of his time.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim Description of subject: Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim, better known as Duncan II of Scotland, was a briefly reigning 11th-century Scottish king and son of Malcolm III who ruled during a turbulent period of dynastic conflict.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Donnchad mac Crínáin
this entity surface form:
Donnchadh mac Maíl Coluim
this entity surface form:
Donnchadh mac Maíl Coluim