Principal Clerk of Session
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The Principal Clerk of Session is a senior judicial administrative officer in Scotland’s supreme civil court, responsible for overseeing court records and procedures.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Principal Clerk of Session canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1866459 — 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: Principal Clerk of Session Context triple: [Sir Walter Scott, positionHeld, Principal Clerk of Session]
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A.
Clerk of the Acts
The Clerk of the Acts was a senior administrative officer of the English Navy Board responsible for overseeing naval records, correspondence, and the day-to-day management of naval affairs.
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B.
Lord Advocate
The Lord Advocate is the senior Scottish Law Officer who serves as the chief legal adviser to the Scottish Government and head of the systems of criminal prosecution and investigation of deaths in Scotland.
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C.
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
The Chief Justice of the Common Pleas was the head judge of England’s Court of Common Pleas, historically responsible for presiding over major civil disputes between private parties.
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D.
District Magistrate
A District Magistrate is the senior-most administrative and executive officer in an Indian district, responsible for overall governance, law and order, and implementation of government policies.
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E.
Solicitor General for Scotland
The Solicitor General for Scotland is a senior Scottish Law Officer who serves as the deputy to the Lord Advocate, advising the Scottish Government on legal matters and representing it in court.
- 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: Principal Clerk of Session Target entity description: The Principal Clerk of Session is a senior judicial administrative officer in Scotland’s supreme civil court, responsible for overseeing court records and procedures.
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A.
Clerk of the Acts
The Clerk of the Acts was a senior administrative officer of the English Navy Board responsible for overseeing naval records, correspondence, and the day-to-day management of naval affairs.
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B.
Lord Advocate
The Lord Advocate is the senior Scottish Law Officer who serves as the chief legal adviser to the Scottish Government and head of the systems of criminal prosecution and investigation of deaths in Scotland.
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C.
Chief Justice of the Common Pleas
The Chief Justice of the Common Pleas was the head judge of England’s Court of Common Pleas, historically responsible for presiding over major civil disputes between private parties.
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D.
District Magistrate
A District Magistrate is the senior-most administrative and executive officer in an Indian district, responsible for overall governance, law and order, and implementation of government policies.
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E.
Solicitor General for Scotland
The Solicitor General for Scotland is a senior Scottish Law Officer who serves as the deputy to the Lord Advocate, advising the Scottish Government on legal matters and representing it in court.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (33)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
court officer role
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judicial administrative office ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | Scotland ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| employer | Scottish Courts and Tribunals Service ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
civil procedure
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court administration ⓘ judicial support services ⓘ |
| hasDuty |
administration of civil court business
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custody of court documents ⓘ ensuring compliance with court rules ⓘ liaison between judiciary and court administration ⓘ management of case papers and processes ⓘ overseeing court procedures ⓘ overseeing court records ⓘ supervision of clerical staff of the Court of Session ⓘ |
| hasJurisdictionOver | civil cases before the Court of Session ⓘ |
| inception | historical office dating back to early development of the Court of Session ⓘ |
| isPositionHeldBy |
experienced Scottish legal administrator
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senior court official ⓘ |
| legalSystem | Scots law ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Edinburgh ⓘ |
| partOf |
Court of Session Outer House
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surface form:
Court of Session
Court of Session Outer House ⓘ
surface form:
supreme civil court of Scotland
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| reportsTo |
Lord President of the Court of Session
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senior judiciary of the Court of Session ⓘ |
| responsibleFor |
archiving of court records
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issuing certain court orders and extracts ⓘ maintenance of the official roll of cases ⓘ recording interlocutors and judgments ⓘ |
| seat | Parliament House, Edinburgh ⓘ |
| worksIn |
Court of Session Inner House
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Court of Session Outer House ⓘ |
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: Principal Clerk of Session Description of subject: The Principal Clerk of Session is a senior judicial administrative officer in Scotland’s supreme civil court, responsible for overseeing court records and procedures.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.