Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox
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Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, was a 16th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who played a prominent role in the turbulent Anglo-Scottish conflicts and was the father of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox canonical | 13 |
| Matthew Stewart, 2nd Earl of Lennox | 1 |
| Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (as Regent of Scotland) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7318439 — 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: Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox Context triple: [War of the Rough Wooing, commander, Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox]
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Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray
Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray, was a 15th-century Scottish nobleman of the powerful Black Douglas family who played a leading role in the dynastic conflicts against King James II of Scotland.
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3rd Duke of Lennox
The 3rd Duke of Lennox was an 18th-century British nobleman, Charles Lennox, who held high aristocratic rank and influence within the British peerage.
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C.
Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray
Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and military leader who played a key role in Robert the Bruce’s campaigns during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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D.
James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton
James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton was a Scottish nobleman and peer who held the historic Morton earldom during the 18th century.
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Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany
Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany was a powerful Scottish nobleman who effectively ruled Scotland as regent during the late 14th and early 15th centuries, overshadowing the weak reigns of his royal relatives.
- 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: Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox Target entity description: Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, was a 16th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who played a prominent role in the turbulent Anglo-Scottish conflicts and was the father of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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A.
Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray
Archibald Douglas, Earl of Moray, was a 15th-century Scottish nobleman of the powerful Black Douglas family who played a leading role in the dynastic conflicts against King James II of Scotland.
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B.
3rd Duke of Lennox
The 3rd Duke of Lennox was an 18th-century British nobleman, Charles Lennox, who held high aristocratic rank and influence within the British peerage.
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C.
Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray
Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and military leader who played a key role in Robert the Bruce’s campaigns during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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D.
James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton
James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton was a Scottish nobleman and peer who held the historic Morton earldom during the 18th century.
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E.
Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany
Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany was a powerful Scottish nobleman who effectively ruled Scotland as regent during the late 14th and early 15th centuries, overshadowing the weak reigns of his royal relatives.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox Description of subject: Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox, was a 16th-century Scottish nobleman and politician who played a prominent role in the turbulent Anglo-Scottish conflicts and was the father of Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, consort of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Margaret Douglas (disputed, via marriage of her son)
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray
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succeededBy
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Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (as Regent of Scotland)
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subject linked to:
1st Earl of Moray
linked to: Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox
subject linked to:
Arabella Stuart (half-sibling, possibly)
subject linked to:
Henry Stuart
linked to: Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox
subject linked to:
King Henry of Scotland