James Beaton (Archbishop of Glasgow)
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James Beaton was a prominent 16th-century Scottish Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Glasgow and became a leading opponent of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland.
All labels observed (2)
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| James Beaton (Archbishop of Glasgow) canonical | 1 |
| James Beaton (as earlier Archbishop of Glasgow, pre‑Reformation line) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11025077 — 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: James Beaton (Archbishop of Glasgow) Context triple: [John Spottiswoode, predecessor, James Beaton (Archbishop of Glasgow)]
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Alexander Stewart, Archbishop of St Andrews
Alexander Stewart, Archbishop of St Andrews, was the illegitimate son of King James IV of Scotland who became a prominent early 16th-century Scottish churchman and royal favorite before dying at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.
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John Maxwell (Archbishop of Glasgow)
John Maxwell was a 17th-century Scottish clergyman who served as Archbishop of Glasgow and was a prominent supporter of royal and episcopal authority in the Church of Scotland.
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Robert Crichton, Bishop of Dunkeld
Robert Crichton, Bishop of Dunkeld, was a 16th-century Scottish prelate and prominent member of the influential Crichton family who played a significant role in the religious and political affairs of his time.
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D.
John Leslie, Bishop of Ross
John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, was a 16th-century Scottish Catholic bishop, diplomat, and staunch supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, known for his political advocacy and historical writings.
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Henry Wardlaw
Henry Wardlaw was a 15th-century Scottish bishop and royal advisor best known for establishing the University of St Andrews, Scotland’s oldest university.
- 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: James Beaton (Archbishop of Glasgow) Target entity description: James Beaton was a prominent 16th-century Scottish Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Glasgow and became a leading opponent of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland.
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A.
Alexander Stewart, Archbishop of St Andrews
Alexander Stewart, Archbishop of St Andrews, was the illegitimate son of King James IV of Scotland who became a prominent early 16th-century Scottish churchman and royal favorite before dying at the Battle of Flodden in 1513.
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B.
John Maxwell (Archbishop of Glasgow)
John Maxwell was a 17th-century Scottish clergyman who served as Archbishop of Glasgow and was a prominent supporter of royal and episcopal authority in the Church of Scotland.
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C.
Robert Crichton, Bishop of Dunkeld
Robert Crichton, Bishop of Dunkeld, was a 16th-century Scottish prelate and prominent member of the influential Crichton family who played a significant role in the religious and political affairs of his time.
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D.
John Leslie, Bishop of Ross
John Leslie, Bishop of Ross, was a 16th-century Scottish Catholic bishop, diplomat, and staunch supporter of Mary, Queen of Scots, known for his political advocacy and historical writings.
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E.
Henry Wardlaw
Henry Wardlaw was a 15th-century Scottish bishop and royal advisor best known for establishing the University of St Andrews, Scotland’s oldest university.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: James Beaton (Archbishop of Glasgow) Description of subject: James Beaton was a prominent 16th-century Scottish Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Glasgow and became a leading opponent of the Protestant Reformation in Scotland.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
John Spottiswoode
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predecessor
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James Beaton (as earlier Archbishop of Glasgow, pre‑Reformation line)
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subject linked to:
John Spottiswoode (Archbishop of St Andrews) – office succession
linked to: James Beaton (Archbishop of Glasgow)