Clan Kirkpatrick
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Clan Kirkpatrick is a historic Scottish clan from Dumfriesshire, traditionally associated with the Bruce cause during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clan Kirkpatrick canonical | 10 |
| Clan Kirkpatrick Society (modern) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T211799 — 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: Clan Kirkpatrick Context triple: [Kirkpatrick, hasNotableFamily, Clan Kirkpatrick]
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A.
Clan Carnegie
Clan Carnegie is a Scottish Lowland clan historically prominent in Angus, known for producing the Earls of Southesk and other notable noble lineages.
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B.
Clan Douglas
Clan Douglas is a powerful and historically influential Scottish clan that played a major role in medieval and early modern Scottish politics, warfare, and nobility.
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C.
Atholl family
The Atholl family is a prominent Scottish noble house historically associated with the Dukes of Atholl and significant influence in the Highlands.
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D.
Stewart family
The Stewart family was a prominent Scottish noble lineage that rose to become the royal House of Stuart, ruling Scotland and later England and Ireland.
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E.
Wallace family
The Wallace family was the prominent Independence, Missouri household of Bess Wallace Truman, whose longtime residence later became the Harry S. Truman National Historic Site.
- 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: Clan Kirkpatrick Target entity description: Clan Kirkpatrick is a historic Scottish clan from Dumfriesshire, traditionally associated with the Bruce cause during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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A.
Clan Carnegie
Clan Carnegie is a Scottish Lowland clan historically prominent in Angus, known for producing the Earls of Southesk and other notable noble lineages.
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B.
Clan Douglas
Clan Douglas is a powerful and historically influential Scottish clan that played a major role in medieval and early modern Scottish politics, warfare, and nobility.
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C.
Atholl family
The Atholl family is a prominent Scottish noble house historically associated with the Dukes of Atholl and significant influence in the Highlands.
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D.
Stewart family
The Stewart family was a prominent Scottish noble lineage that rose to become the royal House of Stuart, ruling Scotland and later England and Ireland.
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E.
Wallace family
The Wallace family was the prominent Independence, Missouri household of Bess Wallace Truman, whose longtime residence later became the Harry S. Truman National Historic Site.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
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: Clan Kirkpatrick Description of subject: Clan Kirkpatrick is a historic Scottish clan from Dumfriesshire, traditionally associated with the Bruce cause during the Wars of Scottish Independence.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Kirkpatrick
this entity surface form:
Clan Kirkpatrick Society (modern)
subject surface form:
Kirkpatrick of Closeburn
subject surface form:
Kirkpatrick of Closeburn