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 |
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.