John Livingston of Manerstoun
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John Livingston of Manerstoun was a Scottish nobleman of the Livingston family, known primarily as a younger son of Sir Alexander Livingston of Callendar and a member of the late medieval Scottish gentry.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Livingston of Manerstoun canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11637259 — 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: John Livingston of Manerstoun Context triple: [Sir Alexander Livingston of Callendar, child, John Livingston of Manerstoun]
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A.
James Holborne of Menstrie
James Holborne of Menstrie was a 17th-century Scottish soldier and Covenanter general who played a prominent role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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B.
Robert Liveing
Robert Liveing was a mountaineer known for participating in the first ascent of the Swiss Alpine peak Blüemlisalp.
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C.
John Balfour of Burley
John Balfour of Burley is a fictionalized version of the historical Covenanter and militant Presbyterian leader John Balfour of Kinloch, depicted as a zealous and fanatical figure in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Old Mortality."
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D.
Alexander Kirkpatrick of Closeburn
Alexander Kirkpatrick of Closeburn was a prominent Scottish laird and historical figure associated with the leadership and legacy of Clan Kirkpatrick in Dumfriesshire.
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E.
Peregrine Maitland
Peregrine Maitland was a British army officer and colonial administrator who served in several key imperial posts in the early 19th century.
- 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: John Livingston of Manerstoun Target entity description: John Livingston of Manerstoun was a Scottish nobleman of the Livingston family, known primarily as a younger son of Sir Alexander Livingston of Callendar and a member of the late medieval Scottish gentry.
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A.
James Holborne of Menstrie
James Holborne of Menstrie was a 17th-century Scottish soldier and Covenanter general who played a prominent role in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
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B.
Robert Liveing
Robert Liveing was a mountaineer known for participating in the first ascent of the Swiss Alpine peak Blüemlisalp.
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C.
John Balfour of Burley
John Balfour of Burley is a fictionalized version of the historical Covenanter and militant Presbyterian leader John Balfour of Kinloch, depicted as a zealous and fanatical figure in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "Old Mortality."
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D.
Alexander Kirkpatrick of Closeburn
Alexander Kirkpatrick of Closeburn was a prominent Scottish laird and historical figure associated with the leadership and legacy of Clan Kirkpatrick in Dumfriesshire.
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E.
Peregrine Maitland
Peregrine Maitland was a British army officer and colonial administrator who served in several key imperial posts in the early 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Scottish nobleman
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member of the Scottish gentry ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scots ⓘ |
| familyName | Livingston ⓘ |
| father | Sir Alexander Livingston of Callendar ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| memberOf | Livingston family ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Livingston of Callendar ⓘ |
| nobleRank | landed gentleman ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Scottish laird ⓘ |
| region | Scotland ⓘ |
| relativePositionInFamily | younger son ⓘ |
| socialClass | late medieval Scottish gentry ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late Middle Ages ⓘ |
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: John Livingston of Manerstoun Description of subject: John Livingston of Manerstoun was a Scottish nobleman of the Livingston family, known primarily as a younger son of Sir Alexander Livingston of Callendar and a member of the late medieval Scottish gentry.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.