William I of Scotland
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William I of Scotland, also known as William the Lion, was a 12th–13th century King of Scots whose long reign was marked by efforts to assert Scottish independence from English overlordship.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William I of Scotland canonical | 30 |
| William the Lion | 12 |
| King William I of Scotland | 2 |
| King William the Lion | 1 |
| William the Lion, King of Scots | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T621976 — 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 I of Scotland Context triple: [Alexander II of Scotland, father, William I of Scotland]
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David I of Scotland
David I of Scotland was a 12th-century King of Scots whose reign is noted for extensive ecclesiastical reform, feudal modernization, and the founding of numerous monasteries that reshaped medieval Scottish society.
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William II of Scotland
William II of Scotland, better known as William III of England, was the Dutch-born Protestant prince who came to the British throne in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and ruled jointly with his wife Mary II.
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Alexander III of Scotland
Alexander III of Scotland was a 13th-century King of Scots whose reign is noted for relative peace, prosperity, and the consolidation of Scottish independence, particularly through the acquisition of the Western Isles.
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Alexander I of Scotland
Alexander I of Scotland was a 12th-century King of Scots known for consolidating royal authority and supporting ecclesiastical reform.
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Robert II of Scotland
Robert II of Scotland was the first Stewart king of Scotland, whose accession in 1371 began the long-ruling Stuart dynasty that would later govern both Scotland and England.
- 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 I of Scotland Target entity description: William I of Scotland, also known as William the Lion, was a 12th–13th century King of Scots whose long reign was marked by efforts to assert Scottish independence from English overlordship.
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A.
David I of Scotland
David I of Scotland was a 12th-century King of Scots whose reign is noted for extensive ecclesiastical reform, feudal modernization, and the founding of numerous monasteries that reshaped medieval Scottish society.
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B.
William II of Scotland
William II of Scotland, better known as William III of England, was the Dutch-born Protestant prince who came to the British throne in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and ruled jointly with his wife Mary II.
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C.
Alexander III of Scotland
Alexander III of Scotland was a 13th-century King of Scots whose reign is noted for relative peace, prosperity, and the consolidation of Scottish independence, particularly through the acquisition of the Western Isles.
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Alexander I of Scotland
Alexander I of Scotland was a 12th-century King of Scots known for consolidating royal authority and supporting ecclesiastical reform.
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E.
Robert II of Scotland
Robert II of Scotland was the first Stewart king of Scotland, whose accession in 1371 began the long-ruling Stuart dynasty that would later govern both Scotland and England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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 I of Scotland Description of subject: William I of Scotland, also known as William the Lion, was a 12th–13th century King of Scots whose long reign was marked by efforts to assert Scottish independence from English overlordship.
Referenced by (46)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
King William the Lion
this entity surface form:
William the Lion
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William the Lion
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William the Lion
this entity surface form:
King William I of Scotland
this entity surface form:
William the Lion
this entity surface form:
King William I of Scotland
this entity surface form:
William the Lion, King of Scots
this entity surface form:
William the Lion
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William the Lion
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William the Lion
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William the Lion
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Ermengarde de Beaumont
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William the Lion
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William the Lion
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William the Lion
this entity surface form:
William the Lion