Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany
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Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, was a 15th-century Scottish prince and nobleman, notable for his turbulent rivalry with his brother King James III and his involvement in continental and domestic power struggles.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany canonical | 11 |
| Alexander Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1246211 — 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: Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany Context triple: [James II of Scotland, child, Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany]
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Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany
Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany was a powerful Scottish nobleman who effectively ruled Scotland as regent during the late 14th and early 15th centuries, overshadowing the weak reigns of his royal relatives.
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Charles Edward, Duke of Albany
Charles Edward, Duke of Albany was the Jacobite prince better known as "Bonnie Prince Charlie," a key figure in the 1745 Jacobite uprising against British rule.
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Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan
Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan—known as the "Wolf of Badenoch"—was a notoriously lawless 14th-century Scottish nobleman and son of King Robert II, infamous for his brutal raids and destruction in the Highlands.
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D.
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Douglas
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Douglas was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and peer whose death without direct heirs led to the famous Douglas Cause inheritance dispute.
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Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl
Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl, was a Scottish nobleman who played a leading role in the conspiracy that resulted in the assassination of King James I of Scotland in 1437.
- 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: Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany Target entity description: Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, was a 15th-century Scottish prince and nobleman, notable for his turbulent rivalry with his brother King James III and his involvement in continental and domestic power struggles.
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A.
Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany
Robert Stewart, Duke of Albany was a powerful Scottish nobleman who effectively ruled Scotland as regent during the late 14th and early 15th centuries, overshadowing the weak reigns of his royal relatives.
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B.
Charles Edward, Duke of Albany
Charles Edward, Duke of Albany was the Jacobite prince better known as "Bonnie Prince Charlie," a key figure in the 1745 Jacobite uprising against British rule.
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C.
Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan
Alexander Stewart, Earl of Buchan—known as the "Wolf of Badenoch"—was a notoriously lawless 14th-century Scottish nobleman and son of King Robert II, infamous for his brutal raids and destruction in the Highlands.
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D.
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Douglas
James Douglas, 2nd Duke of Douglas was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and peer whose death without direct heirs led to the famous Douglas Cause inheritance dispute.
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E.
Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl
Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl, was a Scottish nobleman who played a leading role in the conspiracy that resulted in the assassination of King James I of Scotland in 1437.
- 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: Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany Description of subject: Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany, was a 15th-century Scottish prince and nobleman, notable for his turbulent rivalry with his brother King James III and his involvement in continental and domestic power struggles.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Mary of Guelders
Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany
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child
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Alexander Stewart, Duke of Albany
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Alexander Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany
subject surface form:
Mary of Guelders