Sir John Drummond of Stobhall
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Sir John Drummond of Stobhall was a prominent Scottish nobleman and laird of the Drummond family, influential in late medieval Scottish politics and aristocratic alliances.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sir John Drummond of Stobhall canonical | 3 |
| Sir John Drummond of Hawthornden | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7773941 — 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: Sir John Drummond of Stobhall Context triple: [John Stewart, Earl of Carrick, fatherInLaw, Sir John Drummond of Stobhall]
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Sir John Wedderburn of Ballendean
Sir John Wedderburn of Ballendean was an 18th-century Scottish landowner and baronet whose name was later given to the community of Wedderburn in Oregon.
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B.
Archibald Johnston of Wariston
Archibald Johnston of Wariston was a prominent 17th-century Scottish lawyer and Covenanter leader who played a key role in the political and religious struggles of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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C.
Lord Mackay of Clashfern
Lord Mackay of Clashfern is a Scottish lawyer and Conservative politician who served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom from 1987 to 1997.
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D.
Sir Alexander Livingston of Callendar
Sir Alexander Livingston of Callendar was a powerful 15th-century Scottish noble and guardian of King James II, notorious for his role in the events leading to the infamous Black Dinner.
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E.
James Leslie, 1st Lord Lindores
James Leslie, 1st Lord Lindores, was a Scottish nobleman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries who was elevated to the peerage as Lord Lindores and became a prominent member of the influential Leslie family.
- 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: Sir John Drummond of Stobhall Target entity description: Sir John Drummond of Stobhall was a prominent Scottish nobleman and laird of the Drummond family, influential in late medieval Scottish politics and aristocratic alliances.
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A.
Sir John Wedderburn of Ballendean
Sir John Wedderburn of Ballendean was an 18th-century Scottish landowner and baronet whose name was later given to the community of Wedderburn in Oregon.
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B.
Archibald Johnston of Wariston
Archibald Johnston of Wariston was a prominent 17th-century Scottish lawyer and Covenanter leader who played a key role in the political and religious struggles of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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C.
Lord Mackay of Clashfern
Lord Mackay of Clashfern is a Scottish lawyer and Conservative politician who served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom from 1987 to 1997.
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D.
Sir Alexander Livingston of Callendar
Sir Alexander Livingston of Callendar was a powerful 15th-century Scottish noble and guardian of King James II, notorious for his role in the events leading to the infamous Black Dinner.
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E.
James Leslie, 1st Lord Lindores
James Leslie, 1st Lord Lindores, was a Scottish nobleman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries who was elevated to the peerage as Lord Lindores and became a prominent member of the influential Leslie family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (27)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish nobleman
ⓘ
laird ⓘ member of the Drummond family ⓘ |
| aristocraticActivity |
feudal lordship
ⓘ
landholding ⓘ marriage alliances ⓘ |
| aristocraticRole | landed magnate ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Scottish peerage
ⓘ
Scottish royal court ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scots ⓘ |
| familySeat | Stobhall ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | medieval Scotland ⓘ |
| language |
Latin
ⓘ
Scots ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Clan Drummond ⓘ |
| nobleRank | lord ⓘ |
| notableFor | influence in Scottish aristocratic alliances ⓘ |
| participatedIn | late medieval Scottish politics ⓘ |
| politicalRole | noble power-broker ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Scottish laird ⓘ |
| region |
Lowlands of Scotland
ⓘ
linked to:
Central Lowlands of Scotland
|
| residence |
Perthshire
ⓘ
Stobhall ⓘ |
| socialClass | Scottish nobility ⓘ |
| title | Laird of Stobhall ⓘ |
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: Sir John Drummond of Stobhall Description of subject: Sir John Drummond of Stobhall was a prominent Scottish nobleman and laird of the Drummond family, influential in late medieval Scottish politics and aristocratic alliances.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Sir John Drummond of Stobhall