James II
E203542
James II was a 15th-century King of Scots whose turbulent reign was marked by efforts to curb the power of the nobility and ongoing conflicts with England.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James II canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1246194 — 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: James II Context triple: [James II of Scotland, regnalName, James II]
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James II of England
James II of England was the last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland, whose deposition in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 led to a constitutional shift limiting royal power and securing Protestant succession.
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B.
William III of England
William III of England was a 17th-century Dutch-born prince who became King of England, Scotland, and Ireland after the Glorious Revolution, ruling jointly with his wife Mary II and playing a key role in establishing constitutional monarchy and Protestant ascendancy in Britain.
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C.
Charles II of England
Charles II of England was the restored 17th-century king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, known for the Restoration monarchy, religious and political conflicts, and a vibrant, hedonistic court.
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D.
James Francis Edward Stuart
James Francis Edward Stuart, known as the "Old Pretender," was the exiled Catholic claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland whose contested succession helped spark the Jacobite movement.
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E.
James VII of Scotland
James VII of Scotland (also James II of England and Ireland) was the last Catholic monarch of Britain, whose reign ended with the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
- 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: James II Target entity description: James II was a 15th-century King of Scots whose turbulent reign was marked by efforts to curb the power of the nobility and ongoing conflicts with England.
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A.
James II of England
James II of England was the last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland, whose deposition in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 led to a constitutional shift limiting royal power and securing Protestant succession.
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B.
William III of England
William III of England was a 17th-century Dutch-born prince who became King of England, Scotland, and Ireland after the Glorious Revolution, ruling jointly with his wife Mary II and playing a key role in establishing constitutional monarchy and Protestant ascendancy in Britain.
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C.
Charles II of England
Charles II of England was the restored 17th-century king of England, Scotland, and Ireland, known for the Restoration monarchy, religious and political conflicts, and a vibrant, hedonistic court.
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D.
James Francis Edward Stuart
James Francis Edward Stuart, known as the "Old Pretender," was the exiled Catholic claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland whose contested succession helped spark the Jacobite movement.
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E.
James VII of Scotland
James VII of Scotland (also James II of England and Ireland) was the last Catholic monarch of Britain, whose reign ended with the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: James II Description of subject: James II was a 15th-century King of Scots whose turbulent reign was marked by efforts to curb the power of the nobility and ongoing conflicts with England.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
James II of Scotland