David Douglas
E276556
David Douglas was a young Scottish nobleman of the Douglas family who was infamously executed in 1440 during the politically motivated "Black Dinner" at Edinburgh Castle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| David Douglas canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2549731 — 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: David Douglas Context triple: [Black Dinner, hasVictim, David Douglas]
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A.
David Douglas
David Douglas was a 19th-century Scottish botanist and plant collector renowned for introducing numerous North American tree species, including the Douglas fir, to Europe.
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B.
J. F. Roxburgh
J. F. Roxburgh was a pioneering British headmaster and educational reformer best known for shaping the early character and ethos of Stowe School in the 1920s and 1930s.
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C.
John Veitch
John Veitch was a film producer known for his work on major studio projects, including the 1994 adaptation of Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein."
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D.
Philip Miller
Philip Miller was an 18th-century Scottish botanist and chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden, renowned for his influential horticultural reference work "The Gardener's Dictionary."
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E.
Frederic Clements
Frederic Clements was an American plant ecologist best known for developing the influential theory of ecological succession, viewing plant communities as integrated “superorganisms” that progress through predictable stages.
- 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: David Douglas Target entity description: David Douglas was a young Scottish nobleman of the Douglas family who was infamously executed in 1440 during the politically motivated "Black Dinner" at Edinburgh Castle.
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A.
David Douglas
David Douglas was a 19th-century Scottish botanist and plant collector renowned for introducing numerous North American tree species, including the Douglas fir, to Europe.
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B.
J. F. Roxburgh
J. F. Roxburgh was a pioneering British headmaster and educational reformer best known for shaping the early character and ethos of Stowe School in the 1920s and 1930s.
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C.
John Veitch
John Veitch was a film producer known for his work on major studio projects, including the 1994 adaptation of Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein."
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D.
Philip Miller
Philip Miller was an 18th-century Scottish botanist and chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden, renowned for his influential horticultural reference work "The Gardener's Dictionary."
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E.
Frederic Clements
Frederic Clements was an American plant ecologist best known for developing the influential theory of ecological succession, viewing plant communities as integrated “superorganisms” that progress through predictable stages.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Scottish nobleman ⓘ |
| ageAtDeath | young ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | beheading ⓘ |
| centuryOfDeath | 15th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1440 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scots ⓘ |
| familyName | Douglas ⓘ |
| genreOfEvent | politically motivated execution ⓘ |
| givenName | David ⓘ |
| hasOccupation | noble ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Medieval Scotland
ⓘ
surface form:
Late Middle Ages in Scotland
|
| knownFor | being executed at the Black Dinner ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Scots
ⓘ
Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| memberOf | Douglas family ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Douglas family ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Black Dinner ⓘ |
| partOf | Black Dinner victims ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Edinburgh
ⓘ
Edinburgh Castle ⓘ Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| politicalContext |
conflict involving the Douglas family and rival factions at the Scottish court
ⓘ
power struggle in late medieval Scotland ⓘ |
| relative | Douglas family members ⓘ |
| residence | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| socialRank | aristocracy ⓘ |
| victimOf |
Black Dinner
ⓘ
political intrigue ⓘ |
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: David Douglas Description of subject: David Douglas was a young Scottish nobleman of the Douglas family who was infamously executed in 1440 during the politically motivated "Black Dinner" at Edinburgh Castle.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.