John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl
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John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl, was a Scottish nobleman of the early 16th century who played a prominent role in Highland politics and the turbulent power struggles of the Stewart monarchy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7503481 — 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: John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl Context triple: [Earl of Atholl, hasTitleHolder, John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl]
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John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl
John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl, was a prominent 15th-century Scottish nobleman of the Stewart dynasty who played a significant role in the politics of late medieval Scotland.
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B.
John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl, was an 18th-century Scottish peer and politician known for his role in British public life and as a prominent member of the influential Murray family.
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John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who played a significant role in the turbulent Jacobite and Union-era politics of Scotland.
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D.
John Graham, 6th Earl of Menteith
John Graham, 6th Earl of Menteith, was a Scottish nobleman of the late medieval period who held significant regional power and influence in the Menteith area of the Scottish Highlands.
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John Graham, 4th Earl of Menteith
John Graham, 4th Earl of Menteith, was a Scottish nobleman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries who held significant regional power and influence in the central Highlands.
- 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: John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl Target entity description: John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl, was a Scottish nobleman of the early 16th century who played a prominent role in Highland politics and the turbulent power struggles of the Stewart monarchy.
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A.
John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl
John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl, was a prominent 15th-century Scottish nobleman of the Stewart dynasty who played a significant role in the politics of late medieval Scotland.
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B.
John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl, was an 18th-century Scottish peer and politician known for his role in British public life and as a prominent member of the influential Murray family.
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C.
John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl
John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and politician of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who played a significant role in the turbulent Jacobite and Union-era politics of Scotland.
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D.
John Graham, 6th Earl of Menteith
John Graham, 6th Earl of Menteith, was a Scottish nobleman of the late medieval period who held significant regional power and influence in the Menteith area of the Scottish Highlands.
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E.
John Graham, 4th Earl of Menteith
John Graham, 4th Earl of Menteith, was a Scottish nobleman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries who held significant regional power and influence in the central Highlands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
16th-century Scottish person
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Earl ⓘ Scottish nobleman ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 16th century ⓘ |
| associatedWithRegion | Scottish Highlands NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Andrew Stewart
NERFINISHED
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Barbara Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ Catherine Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ Elizabeth Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ Janet Stewart, Lady Lovat NERFINISHED ⓘ Jean Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Atholl NERFINISHED ⓘ Margaret Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1521 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Early modern period ⓘ |
| father | John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feudalJurisdiction | Earldom of Atholl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Scots ⓘ |
| memberOf | Scottish nobility ⓘ |
| monarchServed |
James IV of Scotland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
James V of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Eleanor Sinclair NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleRank | Earl ⓘ |
| nobleTitleFrom | 1512 ⓘ |
| notableFor |
involvement in Stewart dynasty power struggles
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role in Highland clan politics ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Highland politics
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power struggles of the Stewart monarchy ⓘ |
| partOf | Scottish peerage NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Earl of Atholl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | John Stewart, 1st Earl of Atholl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| spouse |
Elizabeth Gordon
NERFINISHED
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Janet Campbell NERFINISHED ⓘ Janet Stewart NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | John Stewart, 3rd Earl of Atholl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| territorialDesignation | Atholl NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title |
2nd Earl of Atholl
NERFINISHED
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Lord of Balveny NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl Description of subject: John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl, was a Scottish nobleman of the early 16th century who played a prominent role in Highland politics and the turbulent power struggles of the Stewart monarchy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.