Robert de Brus, 4th Lord of Annandale
E443606
Robert de Brus, 4th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and ancestor of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert de Brus, 4th Lord of Annandale canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4346025 — 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: Robert de Brus, 4th Lord of Annandale Context triple: [Lord of Annandale, hasTitleHolder, Robert de Brus, 4th Lord of Annandale]
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Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent 13th-century Scottish noble and claimant to the Scottish throne whose lineage led directly to King Robert the Bruce.
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Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and feudal lord whose lineage and claims to the Scottish throne paved the way for his son, Robert the Bruce, to become King of Scots.
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Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale, was a 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and feudal lord in Scotland, notable as an ancestor of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
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Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale, was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman who became a powerful Scottish baron and progenitor of the Bruce dynasty that later produced King Robert the Bruce.
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William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale
William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale, was a 13th-century Scottish nobleman of the Brus (Bruce) family who held the lordship of Annandale and was an ancestor of King Robert the Bruce.
- 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: Robert de Brus, 4th Lord of Annandale Target entity description: Robert de Brus, 4th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and ancestor of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
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A.
Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent 13th-century Scottish noble and claimant to the Scottish throne whose lineage led directly to King Robert the Bruce.
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B.
Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and feudal lord whose lineage and claims to the Scottish throne paved the way for his son, Robert the Bruce, to become King of Scots.
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C.
Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale, was a 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and feudal lord in Scotland, notable as an ancestor of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
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D.
Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale, was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman who became a powerful Scottish baron and progenitor of the Bruce dynasty that later produced King Robert the Bruce.
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E.
William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale
William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale, was a 13th-century Scottish nobleman of the Brus (Bruce) family who held the lordship of Annandale and was an ancestor of King Robert the Bruce.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglo-Norman nobleman
ⓘ
Scottish magnate ⓘ feudal lord ⓘ medieval nobleman ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Kingdom of England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kingdom of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ancestorOf | Robert the Bruce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty | House of Bruce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthCentury | 13th century ⓘ |
| century | 13th century ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Kingdom of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| culturalSphere | Anglo-Norman aristocracy ⓘ |
| deathCentury | 13th century ⓘ |
| dynasticRole | progenitor of the Bruce royal line in Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Norman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | de Brus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feudalStatus | lord ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| heldTitle | Lord of Annandale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| landholderIn |
England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language |
Anglo-Norman French
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Latin ⓘ |
| lordship | Annandale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Bruce family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleRank | lord ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Lord of Annandale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being an ancestor of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots ⓘ |
| ordinal | 4th ⓘ |
| politicalRole | cross-border Anglo-Scottish noble ⓘ |
| regionOfInfluence |
Annandale
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
southern Scotland ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Robert the Bruce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
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: Robert de Brus, 4th Lord of Annandale Description of subject: Robert de Brus, 4th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and ancestor of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.