Archibald Stirling of Keir
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Archibald Stirling of Keir was a Scottish laird and landowner from the prominent Stirling family, known as the father of SAS founder David Stirling.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Archibald Stirling of Keir canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10703421 — 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: Archibald Stirling of Keir Context triple: [David Stirling, father, Archibald Stirling of Keir]
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A.
Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl
Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl, was a Scottish nobleman who played a leading role in the conspiracy that resulted in the assassination of King James I of Scotland in 1437.
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B.
Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan
Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan—known as the "Wolf of Badenoch"—was a notoriously lawless 14th-century Scottish nobleman and son of King Robert II, infamous for his brutal raids and destruction in the Highlands.
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C.
Patrick Graham, Earl of Menteith
Patrick Graham, Earl of Menteith, was a Scottish nobleman and member of the influential Graham family who held the historic earldom of Menteith in the late medieval period.
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D.
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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E.
John Erskine of Dun
John Erskine of Dun was a leading 16th-century Scottish Reformer and educator who played a key role in shaping the theology and organization of the Reformed Church of 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: Archibald Stirling of Keir Target entity description: Archibald Stirling of Keir was a Scottish laird and landowner from the prominent Stirling family, known as the father of SAS founder David Stirling.
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A.
Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl
Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl, was a Scottish nobleman who played a leading role in the conspiracy that resulted in the assassination of King James I of Scotland in 1437.
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B.
Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan
Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan—known as the "Wolf of Badenoch"—was a notoriously lawless 14th-century Scottish nobleman and son of King Robert II, infamous for his brutal raids and destruction in the Highlands.
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C.
Patrick Graham, Earl of Menteith
Patrick Graham, Earl of Menteith, was a Scottish nobleman and member of the influential Graham family who held the historic earldom of Menteith in the late medieval period.
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D.
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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E.
John Erskine of Dun
John Erskine of Dun was a leading 16th-century Scottish Reformer and educator who played a key role in shaping the theology and organization of the Reformed Church of Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish laird
ⓘ
human ⓘ landowner ⓘ |
| child | David Stirling ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish people ⓘ |
| familyName | Stirling ⓘ |
| fatherOf | David Stirling ⓘ |
| hasGivenName | Archibald ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Stirling ⓘ |
| landOwned |
Keir estate
ⓘ
linked to:
Keir House
lands in Perthshire ⓘ |
| memberOf | Stirling family ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | English ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | laird ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Stirling of Keir ⓘ |
| notableFor | being father of SAS founder David Stirling ⓘ |
| occupation |
farmer
ⓘ
landowner ⓘ |
| partOf | Scottish landed aristocracy ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
laird of Keir
ⓘ
linked to:
Stirling of Keir
|
| region |
Central Scotland
ⓘ
linked to:
central Scotland
|
| residence |
Keir House
ⓘ
Perthshire ⓘ |
| socialClass | landed gentry ⓘ |
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: Archibald Stirling of Keir Description of subject: Archibald Stirling of Keir was a Scottish laird and landowner from the prominent Stirling family, known as the father of SAS founder David Stirling.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.