Lord of the Plough
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Lord of the Plough is the traditional title given to the royal official who leads and performs key ritual duties in Thailand’s annual Royal Ploughing Ceremony, symbolically inaugurating the rice-growing season.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lord of the Plough canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7002665 — 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: Lord of the Plough Context triple: [Royal Ploughing Ceremony, ceremonialLeader, Lord of the Plough]
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A.
The Ploughman
"The Ploughman" is a poem by Scottish national poet Robert Burns, reflecting his characteristic focus on rural life and common folk.
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B.
The Orchard Keeper
The Orchard Keeper is Cormac McCarthy’s debut novel, a Southern Gothic work set in rural Tennessee that explores isolation, violence, and the fading old South through interwoven lives on the margins of society.
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C.
The Farmer’s Ingle
The Farmer’s Ingle is a celebrated Scots-language pastoral poem by Robert Fergusson that vividly portrays the warmth and routines of rural farm life in 18th-century Scotland.
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D.
The Sheaves
"The Sheaves" is a reflective lyric poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson that contemplates mortality and spiritual renewal through the imagery of harvested grain.
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E.
The Kingham Plough
The Kingham Plough is a renowned country pub and restaurant in the Cotswold village of Kingham, known for its high-quality, locally sourced food and welcoming atmosphere.
- 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: Lord of the Plough Target entity description: Lord of the Plough is the traditional title given to the royal official who leads and performs key ritual duties in Thailand’s annual Royal Ploughing Ceremony, symbolically inaugurating the rice-growing season.
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A.
The Ploughman
"The Ploughman" is a poem by Scottish national poet Robert Burns, reflecting his characteristic focus on rural life and common folk.
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B.
The Orchard Keeper
The Orchard Keeper is Cormac McCarthy’s debut novel, a Southern Gothic work set in rural Tennessee that explores isolation, violence, and the fading old South through interwoven lives on the margins of society.
-
C.
The Farmer’s Ingle
The Farmer’s Ingle is a celebrated Scots-language pastoral poem by Robert Fergusson that vividly portrays the warmth and routines of rural farm life in 18th-century Scotland.
-
D.
The Sheaves
"The Sheaves" is a reflective lyric poem by Edwin Arlington Robinson that contemplates mortality and spiritual renewal through the imagery of harvested grain.
-
E.
The Kingham Plough
The Kingham Plough is a renowned country pub and restaurant in the Cotswold village of Kingham, known for its high-quality, locally sourced food and welcoming atmosphere.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ceremonial office
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royal title ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
rice cultivation in Thailand
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royal agricultural rites ⓘ |
| associatedWithCeremony | Royal Ploughing Ceremony NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ceremonialFunction |
leads the Royal Ploughing Ceremony
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performs key ritual duties in the Royal Ploughing Ceremony ⓘ |
| country | Thailand ⓘ |
| culturalContext |
Thai agricultural traditions
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Thai royal ceremonies ⓘ |
| hasAttribute |
ritual authority in royal ceremony
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symbolic leadership in agriculture ⓘ |
| hasRole | royal official ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | Thai NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| linkedTo |
Thai monarchy
NERFINISHED
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Thai royal court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf | Thai royal ceremonial calendar ⓘ |
| performsAction |
guides sacred plough in ceremonial field
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participates in rituals for agricultural prosperity ⓘ |
| purpose | to ensure auspicious beginning of rice-planting season ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
sacred kingship in Southeast Asia
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state-sponsored fertility rites ⓘ |
| religiousContext | Brahmanical court ritual in Thailand ⓘ |
| symbolism | inaugurates the rice-growing season ⓘ |
| timeOfYear | start of the rice-growing season ⓘ |
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: Lord of the Plough Description of subject: Lord of the Plough is the traditional title given to the royal official who leads and performs key ritual duties in Thailand’s annual Royal Ploughing Ceremony, symbolically inaugurating the rice-growing season.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Royal Ploughing Ceremony