Matilda of Scotland
E463255
11th-century Scottish person
12th-century English person
Scottish princess
medieval noblewoman
queen consort of England
Matilda of Scotland was a 12th-century Scottish princess who became Queen of England as the wife of King Henry I and was noted for her piety and political influence.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Matilda of Scotland canonical | 16 |
| Edith of Scotland | 1 |
| Matilda of Scotland, Duchess of Brittany | 1 |
| Matilda, Queen of England | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4680549 — 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: Matilda of Scotland Context triple: [Alexander I of Scotland, sibling, Matilda of Scotland]
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A.
Matilda (Maud) Bruce
Matilda (Maud) Bruce was a medieval Scottish noblewoman, the daughter of Elizabeth de Burgh and King Robert the Bruce of Scotland.
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B.
Eleanor of Scotland
Eleanor of Scotland was a 15th-century Scottish princess, daughter of King James I of Scotland, who became Archduchess of Austria through her marriage to Archduke Sigismund of Austria.
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C.
Isabel of Scotland
Isabel of Scotland was a 13th-century Scottish princess, daughter of King William the Lion, who became Queen consort of Norway through her marriage to King Eric II.
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D.
Margaret of Scotland
Margaret of Scotland, known as the Maid of Norway, was the young granddaughter of King Alexander III who briefly became the uncrowned queen-designate of Scotland in the late 13th century before dying en route from Norway.
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E.
Margaret of Scotland
Margaret of Scotland was a 15th-century Scottish princess and the first wife of the future King Louis XI of France, whose politically arranged marriage helped strengthen Franco-Scottish alliances.
- 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: Matilda of Scotland Target entity description: Matilda of Scotland was a 12th-century Scottish princess who became Queen of England as the wife of King Henry I and was noted for her piety and political influence.
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A.
Matilda (Maud) Bruce
Matilda (Maud) Bruce was a medieval Scottish noblewoman, the daughter of Elizabeth de Burgh and King Robert the Bruce of Scotland.
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B.
Eleanor of Scotland
Eleanor of Scotland was a 15th-century Scottish princess, daughter of King James I of Scotland, who became Archduchess of Austria through her marriage to Archduke Sigismund of Austria.
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C.
Isabel of Scotland
Isabel of Scotland was a 13th-century Scottish princess, daughter of King William the Lion, who became Queen consort of Norway through her marriage to King Eric II.
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D.
Margaret of Scotland
Margaret of Scotland was a 15th-century Scottish princess and the first wife of the future King Louis XI of France, whose politically arranged marriage helped strengthen Franco-Scottish alliances.
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E.
Margaret of Scotland
Margaret of Scotland, known as the Maid of Norway, was the young granddaughter of King Alexander III who briefly became the uncrowned queen-designate of Scotland in the late 13th century before dying en route from Norway.
- 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: Matilda of Scotland Description of subject: Matilda of Scotland was a 12th-century Scottish princess who became Queen of England as the wife of King Henry I and was noted for her piety and political influence.
Referenced by (19)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Alexander I
linked to: Matilda of Scotland
subject linked to:
Edith
linked to: Matilda of Scotland
subject linked to:
Edith
linked to: Matilda of Scotland
subject linked to:
Edith