Duncan I of Scotland
E94488
Duncan I of Scotland was an early 11th-century King of Scots whose reign and death in battle against Macbeth later inspired Shakespeare’s tragedy "Macbeth."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Duncan I of Scotland canonical | 12 |
| Donnchad I of Scotland | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T663230 — 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: Duncan I of Scotland Context triple: [Malcolm III of Scotland, father, Duncan I of Scotland]
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Malcolm III of Scotland
Malcolm III of Scotland was an 11th-century King of Scots whose long reign helped consolidate the Scottish kingdom and establish the House of Dunkeld.
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Donald III of Scotland
Donald III of Scotland was a late 11th-century King of Scots whose brief and contested reign followed that of his brother Malcolm III amid dynastic struggles for the Scottish throne.
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C.
Duncan II of Scotland
Duncan II of Scotland was a briefly reigning 11th-century King of Scots whose short and turbulent rule followed that of his father, Malcolm III.
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William I of Scotland
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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Malcolm IV of Scotland
Malcolm IV of Scotland was a 12th-century King of Scots, known as "the Maiden," who ruled from 1153 to 1165 and continued the consolidation of royal authority begun by his grandfather David I.
- 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: Duncan I of Scotland Target entity description: Duncan I of Scotland was an early 11th-century King of Scots whose reign and death in battle against Macbeth later inspired Shakespeare’s tragedy "Macbeth."
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A.
Malcolm III of Scotland
Malcolm III of Scotland was an 11th-century King of Scots whose long reign helped consolidate the Scottish kingdom and establish the House of Dunkeld.
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B.
Donald III of Scotland
Donald III of Scotland was a late 11th-century King of Scots whose brief and contested reign followed that of his brother Malcolm III amid dynastic struggles for the Scottish throne.
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C.
Duncan II of Scotland
Duncan II of Scotland was a briefly reigning 11th-century King of Scots whose short and turbulent rule followed that of his father, Malcolm III.
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D.
William I of Scotland
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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E.
Malcolm IV of Scotland
Malcolm IV of Scotland was a 12th-century King of Scots, known as "the Maiden," who ruled from 1153 to 1165 and continued the consolidation of royal authority begun by his grandfather David I.
- 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: Duncan I of Scotland Description of subject: Duncan I of Scotland was an early 11th-century King of Scots whose reign and death in battle against Macbeth later inspired Shakespeare’s tragedy "Macbeth."
Referenced by (13)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Donnchad I of Scotland