Scottish army
E332551
The Scottish army was the military force of the Kingdom of Scotland, composed of feudal levies and later more organized formations, that fought in numerous medieval conflicts including the Wars of Scottish Independence.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Scottish army canonical | 5 |
| Royal Scots Army | 2 |
| Scottish royal army | 2 |
| Royal Scottish artillery | 1 |
| Scottish Army | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3142553 — 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: Scottish army Context triple: [Battle of Halidon Hill, combatant, Scottish army]
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A.
Royal Regiment of Scotland
The Royal Regiment of Scotland is the senior line infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 2006 by amalgamating Scotland’s historic infantry regiments into a single unit.
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B.
Royal Scots Fusiliers
The Royal Scots Fusiliers was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army, originally raised in Scotland and distinguished by long service in major conflicts from the 17th to the 20th century.
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C.
Gordon Highlanders
The Gordon Highlanders was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army from northeast Scotland, renowned for its distinctive Highland dress and distinguished service in numerous conflicts from the 18th to the 20th century.
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D.
King's Own Scottish Borderers (historical)
The King's Own Scottish Borderers was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army, renowned for its long service from the late 17th century through two World Wars and numerous colonial campaigns.
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E.
Seaforth Highlanders
The Seaforth Highlanders was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army, traditionally recruited from the Highlands of Scotland and renowned for its service in numerous conflicts from the 19th to the 20th century.
- 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: Scottish army Target entity description: The Scottish army was the military force of the Kingdom of Scotland, composed of feudal levies and later more organized formations, that fought in numerous medieval conflicts including the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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A.
Royal Regiment of Scotland
The Royal Regiment of Scotland is the senior line infantry regiment of the British Army, formed in 2006 by amalgamating Scotland’s historic infantry regiments into a single unit.
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B.
Royal Scots Fusiliers
The Royal Scots Fusiliers was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army, originally raised in Scotland and distinguished by long service in major conflicts from the 17th to the 20th century.
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C.
Gordon Highlanders
The Gordon Highlanders was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army from northeast Scotland, renowned for its distinctive Highland dress and distinguished service in numerous conflicts from the 18th to the 20th century.
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D.
King's Own Scottish Borderers (historical)
The King's Own Scottish Borderers was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army, renowned for its long service from the late 17th century through two World Wars and numerous colonial campaigns.
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E.
Seaforth Highlanders
The Seaforth Highlanders was a historic line infantry regiment of the British Army, traditionally recruited from the Highlands of Scotland and renowned for its service in numerous conflicts from the 19th to the 20th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (97)
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: Scottish army Description of subject: The Scottish army was the military force of the Kingdom of Scotland, composed of feudal levies and later more organized formations, that fought in numerous medieval conflicts including the Wars of Scottish Independence.
Referenced by (11)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Royal Scots Army
this entity surface form:
Royal Scots Army
subject surface form:
Mons Meg
this entity surface form:
Royal Scottish artillery
this entity surface form:
Scottish royal army
subject surface form:
John Graham of Claverhouse
this entity surface form:
Scottish Army
this entity surface form:
Scottish royal army