Patrick Smythe of Braco
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Patrick Smythe of Braco was a Scottish laird and landowner best known as the 17th-century proprietor for whom Methven Castle in Perthshire was constructed.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Patrick Smythe of Braco canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11502703 — 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: Patrick Smythe of Braco Context triple: [Methven Castle, builtFor, Patrick Smythe of Braco]
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A.
Johnny St. Cyr
Johnny St. Cyr was an influential early jazz banjoist and guitarist best known for his work with Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven bands.
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B.
John D'Arco
John D'Arco is a screenwriter best known for penning the action-comedy film "Barely Lethal."
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C.
Brian Masterson
Brian Masterson is an Irish recording engineer and producer best known for his influential work in the music industry and for co-founding Dublin’s renowned Windmill Lane Studios.
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D.
Myles Falworth
Myles Falworth is the young squire-turned-knight protagonist of Howard Pyle’s historical novel "Men of Iron," known for his chivalry, courage, and quest to restore his family’s honor in medieval England.
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E.
Hector Meredith
Hector Meredith is a British intelligence officer who plays a central role in John le Carré’s espionage novel "Our Kind of Traitor."
- 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: Patrick Smythe of Braco Target entity description: Patrick Smythe of Braco was a Scottish laird and landowner best known as the 17th-century proprietor for whom Methven Castle in Perthshire was constructed.
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A.
Johnny St. Cyr
Johnny St. Cyr was an influential early jazz banjoist and guitarist best known for his work with Louis Armstrong’s Hot Five and Hot Seven bands.
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B.
John D'Arco
John D'Arco is a screenwriter best known for penning the action-comedy film "Barely Lethal."
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C.
Brian Masterson
Brian Masterson is an Irish recording engineer and producer best known for his influential work in the music industry and for co-founding Dublin’s renowned Windmill Lane Studios.
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D.
Myles Falworth
Myles Falworth is the young squire-turned-knight protagonist of Howard Pyle’s historical novel "Men of Iron," known for his chivalry, courage, and quest to restore his family’s honor in medieval England.
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E.
Hector Meredith
Hector Meredith is a British intelligence officer who plays a central role in John le Carré’s espionage novel "Our Kind of Traitor."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish laird
ⓘ
historical person ⓘ landowner ⓘ |
| associatedWithBuilding | Methven Castle ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 17th century ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish ⓘ |
| hasTitle | of Braco ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Early Modern period ⓘ |
| knownFor | ownership and development of estates in Perthshire ⓘ |
| landholdingType | feudal barony ⓘ |
| language |
English
ⓘ
Scots ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the 17th-century proprietor for whom Methven Castle was constructed ⓘ |
| notableWork | commissioning of Methven Castle ⓘ |
| owned |
Methven estate
ⓘ
linked to:
Methven House
lands of Braco ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Perthshire
ⓘ
Scotland ⓘ |
| positionHeld | laird of Braco ⓘ |
| region |
Central Scotland
ⓘ
linked to:
central Scotland
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| residence |
Braco, Perthshire
ⓘ
Methven, Perthshire ⓘ
linked to:
Methven, Perthshire, Scotland
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| roleInConstruction | proprietor for whom Methven Castle was built ⓘ |
| socialClass | Scottish 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: Patrick Smythe of Braco Description of subject: Patrick Smythe of Braco was a Scottish laird and landowner best known as the 17th-century proprietor for whom Methven Castle in Perthshire was constructed.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.