King of Alba
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King of Alba was the medieval royal title used for the monarchs of the early Kingdom of Scotland before the term "King of Scots" became standard.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| King of Alba canonical | 12 |
| King of the Picts and Scots | 2 |
| Rí Alban (King of Alba) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3863308 — 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: King of Alba Context triple: [Lulach of Scotland, title, King of Alba]
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A.
King Fergus
King Fergus is the boisterous, one-legged Scottish king and devoted father from Disney-Pixar's animated film "Brave."
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B.
Moclan
Moclan are a fictional, predominantly male, rigidly traditional alien species from the science fiction TV series "The Orville."
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C.
Lord of the Isles
Lord of the Isles is a historic Scottish noble title traditionally associated with the rulers of the Hebrides and western coastal Highlands, later incorporated into the titles of the heir apparent to the British throne.
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D.
Óengus I of the Picts
Óengus I of the Picts was an 8th-century king who forged one of the most powerful Pictish kingdoms in early medieval Scotland through military conquest and political dominance.
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E.
Dominus Hiberniae
Dominus Hiberniae was the medieval Latin title used by English monarchs to denote their lordship over Ireland before it was elevated to a full kingdom.
- 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: King of Alba Target entity description: King of Alba was the medieval royal title used for the monarchs of the early Kingdom of Scotland before the term "King of Scots" became standard.
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A.
King Fergus
King Fergus is the boisterous, one-legged Scottish king and devoted father from Disney-Pixar's animated film "Brave."
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B.
Moclan
Moclan are a fictional, predominantly male, rigidly traditional alien species from the science fiction TV series "The Orville."
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C.
Lord of the Isles
Lord of the Isles is a historic Scottish noble title traditionally associated with the rulers of the Hebrides and western coastal Highlands, later incorporated into the titles of the heir apparent to the British throne.
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D.
Óengus I of the Picts
Óengus I of the Picts was an 8th-century king who forged one of the most powerful Pictish kingdoms in early medieval Scotland through military conquest and political dominance.
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E.
Dominus Hiberniae
Dominus Hiberniae was the medieval Latin title used by English monarchs to denote their lordship over Ireland before it was elevated to a full kingdom.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
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: King of Alba Description of subject: King of Alba was the medieval royal title used for the monarchs of the early Kingdom of Scotland before the term "King of Scots" became standard.
Referenced by (15)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Rí Alban (King of Alba)
this entity surface form:
King of the Picts and Scots
this entity surface form:
King of the Picts and Scots