Richard de Brus
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Richard de Brus was a 13th-century Scottish nobleman of the influential Brus family and brother of Robert the Bruce’s grandfather.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard de Brus canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4549479 — 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: Richard de Brus Context triple: [Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, child, Richard de Brus]
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A.
Thomas de Brus
Thomas de Brus was a medieval Scottish nobleman of the influential Bruce family, known primarily as a brother of King Robert the Bruce and a participant in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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B.
Bernard de Brus
Bernard de Brus was a 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman of the Brus family, a younger son of the powerful Lords of Annandale and a member of the lineage that produced Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
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C.
Robert de Brus V
Robert de Brus V was a 13th-century Scottish nobleman and claimant to the Scottish throne, best known as the grandfather of King Robert the Bruce.
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D.
William de Brus
William de Brus was a medieval Scottish nobleman of the Brus family, known primarily as a younger son of the powerful Lords of Annandale.
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E.
Alexander de Brus
Alexander de Brus was a Scottish nobleman of the influential Bruce family, known primarily as a brother of King Robert the Bruce and a supporter of his cause during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
- 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: Richard de Brus Target entity description: Richard de Brus was a 13th-century Scottish nobleman of the influential Brus family and brother of Robert the Bruce’s grandfather.
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A.
Thomas de Brus
Thomas de Brus was a medieval Scottish nobleman of the influential Bruce family, known primarily as a brother of King Robert the Bruce and a participant in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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B.
Bernard de Brus
Bernard de Brus was a 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman of the Brus family, a younger son of the powerful Lords of Annandale and a member of the lineage that produced Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
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C.
Robert de Brus V
Robert de Brus V was a 13th-century Scottish nobleman and claimant to the Scottish throne, best known as the grandfather of King Robert the Bruce.
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D.
William de Brus
William de Brus was a medieval Scottish nobleman of the Brus family, known primarily as a younger son of the powerful Lords of Annandale.
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E.
Alexander de Brus
Alexander de Brus was a Scottish nobleman of the influential Bruce family, known primarily as a brother of King Robert the Bruce and a supporter of his cause during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish nobleman
ⓘ
medieval noble ⓘ member of the Brus family ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 13th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scots ⓘ |
| familyName | Brus ⓘ |
| greatUncleOf |
Robert the Bruce
ⓘ
linked to:
Robert I of Scotland
|
| hasAncestralOrigin | Norman nobility ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Latin
ⓘ
Norman French ⓘ
linked to:
Anglo-Norman
Scots ⓘ |
| nobleFamily |
Brus family
ⓘ
linked to:
de Brus family
|
| nobleTitle | Lord ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a member of the Brus family in 13th-century Scotland
ⓘ
kinship to Robert the Bruce’s line ⓘ |
| partOf |
Scottish nobility
ⓘ
medieval Scottish aristocracy ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Scotland ⓘ |
| relative |
Robert de Brus, 4th Lord of Annandale
ⓘ
Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale ⓘ Robert the Bruce ⓘ
linked to:
Robert I of Scotland
|
| siblingOf | Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| uncleOf | Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale ⓘ |
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: Richard de Brus Description of subject: Richard de Brus was a 13th-century Scottish nobleman of the influential Brus family and brother of Robert the Bruce’s grandfather.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.