Baillie of Polkemmet
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The Baillie of Polkemmet was a Scottish landed family associated with the Polkemmet estate in West Lothian, historically serving as its proprietors and local gentry.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Baillie | 1 |
| Baillie of Polkemmet canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7434229 — 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: Baillie of Polkemmet Context triple: [Polkemmet Country Park, formerOwner, Baillie of Polkemmet]
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A.
Montgomery of Skelmorlie
Montgomery of Skelmorlie is a Scottish cadet branch of the noble Montgomery family historically associated with the Skelmorlie estate in Ayrshire.
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B.
Montgomery of Broomlands
Montgomery of Broomlands is a cadet branch of the historic Scottish Montgomery family, associated with the Broomlands estate.
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C.
Campbell of Auchinbreck
Campbell of Auchinbreck is a prominent cadet branch of the Scottish Clan Campbell historically associated with lands in Argyll and notable roles in Highland politics and warfare.
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D.
Campbell of Glenorchy
Campbell of Glenorchy is a prominent cadet branch of the Scottish Clan Campbell historically associated with lands in Glenorchy and influential in Highland politics.
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E.
Maclean of Brolas
Maclean of Brolas is a distinguished cadet branch of the Scottish Highland Clan Maclean, historically associated with the Isle of Mull and the clan’s traditional warrior aristocracy.
- 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: Baillie of Polkemmet Target entity description: The Baillie of Polkemmet was a Scottish landed family associated with the Polkemmet estate in West Lothian, historically serving as its proprietors and local gentry.
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A.
Montgomery of Skelmorlie
Montgomery of Skelmorlie is a Scottish cadet branch of the noble Montgomery family historically associated with the Skelmorlie estate in Ayrshire.
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B.
Montgomery of Broomlands
Montgomery of Broomlands is a cadet branch of the historic Scottish Montgomery family, associated with the Broomlands estate.
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C.
Campbell of Auchinbreck
Campbell of Auchinbreck is a prominent cadet branch of the Scottish Clan Campbell historically associated with lands in Argyll and notable roles in Highland politics and warfare.
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D.
Campbell of Glenorchy
Campbell of Glenorchy is a prominent cadet branch of the Scottish Clan Campbell historically associated with lands in Glenorchy and influential in Highland politics.
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E.
Maclean of Brolas
Maclean of Brolas is a distinguished cadet branch of the Scottish Highland Clan Maclean, historically associated with the Isle of Mull and the clan’s traditional warrior aristocracy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (20)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish gentry family
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Scottish landed family ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Polkemmet estate NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Families of West Lothian
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Scottish landed families ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Scotland ⓘ |
| estateOwned | Polkemmet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Baillie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasEstateLocation | West Lothian NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
local gentry in West Lothian
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local proprietors of Polkemmet estate ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | example of Scottish landed gentry ⓘ |
| landedEstate | Polkemmet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedIn | West Lothian ⓘ |
| notableTitle | Baillie of Polkemmet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | landowners ⓘ |
| region | Lowlands of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | gentry ⓘ |
| typeOfOwnership | hereditary estate proprietors ⓘ |
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: Baillie of Polkemmet Description of subject: The Baillie of Polkemmet was a Scottish landed family associated with the Polkemmet estate in West Lothian, historically serving as its proprietors and local gentry.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Baillie