High Steward of Scotland
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The High Steward of Scotland was a powerful hereditary noble title whose holders served as chief administrators of the Scottish royal household and later became the ancestors of the Stewart/Stuart royal dynasty.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| High Steward of Scotland canonical | 11 |
| Great Steward of Scotland | 1 |
| Lord High Steward of Scotland | 1 |
| office of High Steward of Scotland | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8062326 — 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: High Steward of Scotland Context triple: [James the Elder, 5th High Steward of Scotland, officeInherited, High Steward of Scotland]
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A.
Prince and Great Steward of Scotland
The Prince and Great Steward of Scotland is a historic Scottish royal title traditionally held by the heir apparent to the Scottish, and later British, throne, reflecting both princely rank and stewardship over the kingdom.
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B.
Lord High Constable of Scotland
The Lord High Constable of Scotland was one of the great officers of state, historically responsible for commanding the Scottish army and overseeing military justice.
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Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland
The Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland was a senior Great Officer of State responsible for the custody and use of the monarch’s privy seal in Scottish governance and administration.
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D.
Lord High Steward
The Lord High Steward is a senior Great Officer of State in England historically responsible for presiding over the House of Lords during trials of peers and for ceremonial duties at coronations.
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Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland
The Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland is a senior Scottish office of state responsible for the custody and use of the Great Seal, which authenticates important official documents and acts of the Crown in 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: High Steward of Scotland Target entity description: The High Steward of Scotland was a powerful hereditary noble title whose holders served as chief administrators of the Scottish royal household and later became the ancestors of the Stewart/Stuart royal dynasty.
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A.
Prince and Great Steward of Scotland
The Prince and Great Steward of Scotland is a historic Scottish royal title traditionally held by the heir apparent to the Scottish, and later British, throne, reflecting both princely rank and stewardship over the kingdom.
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B.
Lord High Constable of Scotland
The Lord High Constable of Scotland was one of the great officers of state, historically responsible for commanding the Scottish army and overseeing military justice.
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C.
Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland
The Keeper of the Privy Seal of Scotland was a senior Great Officer of State responsible for the custody and use of the monarch’s privy seal in Scottish governance and administration.
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D.
Lord High Steward
The Lord High Steward is a senior Great Officer of State in England historically responsible for presiding over the House of Lords during trials of peers and for ceremonial duties at coronations.
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E.
Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland
The Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland is a senior Scottish office of state responsible for the custody and use of the Great Seal, which authenticates important official documents and acts of the Crown in Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: High Steward of Scotland Description of subject: The High Steward of Scotland was a powerful hereditary noble title whose holders served as chief administrators of the Scottish royal household and later became the ancestors of the Stewart/Stuart royal dynasty.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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fitz Alan
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fitz Alan
Hereditary Great Chamberlain of Scotland (disputed historically within Argyll line)
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