Máel Coluim II, Earl of Fife
E163453
Máel Coluim II, Earl of Fife, was a prominent medieval Scottish nobleman who held one of the kingdom’s most powerful earldoms and played a key role in the politics of the Scottish crown.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Máel Coluim II, Earl of Fife canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1100363 — 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: Máel Coluim II, Earl of Fife Context triple: [Earl of Fife, hasTitleHolder, Máel Coluim II, Earl of Fife]
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A.
Máel Coluim I, Earl of Fife
Máel Coluim I, Earl of Fife, was a prominent 12th-century Scottish nobleman and magnate who played a key role in the early development of the powerful earldom of Fife.
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B.
Donnchad I, Earl of Fife
Donnchad I, Earl of Fife, was a prominent 12th-century Scottish nobleman and mormaer of Fife who played a key role in the early medieval Kingdom of Scotland.
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C.
Colbán, Earl of Fife
Colbán, Earl of Fife was a 13th-century Scottish nobleman and magnate who held one of the kingdom’s most powerful earldoms and played a prominent role in the politics of medieval Scotland.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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: Máel Coluim II, Earl of Fife Target entity description: Máel Coluim II, Earl of Fife, was a prominent medieval Scottish nobleman who held one of the kingdom’s most powerful earldoms and played a key role in the politics of the Scottish crown.
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A.
Máel Coluim I, Earl of Fife
Máel Coluim I, Earl of Fife, was a prominent 12th-century Scottish nobleman and magnate who played a key role in the early development of the powerful earldom of Fife.
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B.
Donnchad I, Earl of Fife
Donnchad I, Earl of Fife, was a prominent 12th-century Scottish nobleman and mormaer of Fife who played a key role in the early medieval Kingdom of Scotland.
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C.
Colbán, Earl of Fife
Colbán, Earl of Fife was a 13th-century Scottish nobleman and magnate who held one of the kingdom’s most powerful earldoms and played a prominent role in the politics of medieval Scotland.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Earl
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Scottish nobleman ⓘ medieval person ⓘ |
| allegiance | King of Scots ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Scottish crown ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Scottish ⓘ |
| feudalRank | earl ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Máel Coluim ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Fife ⓘ |
| languageOfName | Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Earls of Fife ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Earl of Fife ⓘ |
| notableFor |
holding one of the most powerful earldoms in medieval Scotland
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involvement in politics of the Scottish crown ⓘ |
| ordinal | II ⓘ |
| partOf | Scottish nobility ⓘ |
| politicalRole | key figure in royal politics ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Earl of Fife ⓘ |
| powerStatus | powerful magnate ⓘ |
| realm | Fife ⓘ |
| region | medieval Scotland ⓘ |
| socialClass | high nobility ⓘ |
| titleHeldIn | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Máel Coluim II, Earl of Fife Description of subject: Máel Coluim II, Earl of Fife, was a prominent medieval Scottish nobleman who held one of the kingdom’s most powerful earldoms and played a key role in the politics of the Scottish crown.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.