William le Hardi Douglas
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William le Hardi Douglas was a 13th-century Scottish noble and warrior known for his staunch resistance to English rule during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William le Hardi Douglas canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7411621 — 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: William le Hardi Douglas Context triple: [James Douglas, father, William le Hardi Douglas]
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Archibald Douglas
Archibald Douglas was a Scottish nobleman best known for his central role in the protracted Douglas inheritance dispute, which became one of 18th-century Scotland’s most famous legal cases.
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Archibald Douglas
Archibald Douglas was a 14th-century Scottish noble and military leader who served as Guardian of Scotland during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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William Elphinstone
William Elphinstone was a British colonial administrator and politician who served in high-ranking roles in India during the era of the British East India Company.
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William Elphinstone
William Elphinstone was a Scottish bishop, statesman, and humanist scholar of the late 15th century who played a key role in the development of higher education in Scotland.
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William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas
William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish nobleman and head of the powerful Douglas family, influential in the politics and aristocracy of Scotland.
- 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: William le Hardi Douglas Target entity description: William le Hardi Douglas was a 13th-century Scottish noble and warrior known for his staunch resistance to English rule during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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A.
Archibald Douglas
Archibald Douglas was a Scottish nobleman best known for his central role in the protracted Douglas inheritance dispute, which became one of 18th-century Scotland’s most famous legal cases.
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B.
Archibald Douglas
Archibald Douglas was a 14th-century Scottish noble and military leader who served as Guardian of Scotland during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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C.
William Elphinstone
William Elphinstone was a British colonial administrator and politician who served in high-ranking roles in India during the era of the British East India Company.
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D.
William Elphinstone
William Elphinstone was a Scottish bishop, statesman, and humanist scholar of the late 15th century who played a key role in the development of higher education in Scotland.
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E.
William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas
William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas, was a prominent 17th-century Scottish nobleman and head of the powerful Douglas family, influential in the politics and aristocracy of Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: William le Hardi Douglas Description of subject: William le Hardi Douglas was a 13th-century Scottish noble and warrior known for his staunch resistance to English rule during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.