William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale
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William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale, was a 13th-century Scottish nobleman of the Brus (Bruce) family who held the lordship of Annandale and was an ancestor of King Robert the Bruce.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4346024 — 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: William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale Context triple: [Lord of Annandale, hasTitleHolder, William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale]
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Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent 13th-century Scottish noble and claimant to the Scottish throne whose lineage led directly to King Robert the Bruce.
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Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and feudal lord whose lineage and claims to the Scottish throne paved the way for his son, Robert the Bruce, to become King of Scots.
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C.
Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale, was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman who became a powerful Scottish baron and progenitor of the Bruce dynasty that later produced King Robert the Bruce.
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Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale, was a 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and feudal lord in Scotland, notable as an ancestor of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
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Walter of Moray
Walter of Moray was a prominent 13th-century Scottish noble and landowner who played a key role in the politics and territorial consolidation of medieval Scotland.
- 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: William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale Target entity description: William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale, was a 13th-century Scottish nobleman of the Brus (Bruce) family who held the lordship of Annandale and was an ancestor of King Robert the Bruce.
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A.
Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent 13th-century Scottish noble and claimant to the Scottish throne whose lineage led directly to King Robert the Bruce.
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B.
Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent Scottish nobleman and feudal lord whose lineage and claims to the Scottish throne paved the way for his son, Robert the Bruce, to become King of Scots.
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C.
Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale, was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman who became a powerful Scottish baron and progenitor of the Bruce dynasty that later produced King Robert the Bruce.
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D.
Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale, was a 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and feudal lord in Scotland, notable as an ancestor of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
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E.
Walter of Moray
Walter of Moray was a prominent 13th-century Scottish noble and landowner who played a key role in the politics and territorial consolidation of medieval Scotland.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Lord of Annandale
ⓘ
Scottish nobleman ⓘ medieval noble ⓘ |
| allegiance | Kingdom of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ancestorOf | Robert the Bruce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| dynasty | Bruce family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scots ⓘ |
| familyName |
Bruce
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
de Brus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| feudalTitle | Lord of Annandale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruit | 13th century ⓘ |
| givenName | William ⓘ |
| language |
Latin
ⓘ
Scots ⓘ |
| lordship | Annandale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Bruce family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
House of Brus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Bruce family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleRank | lord ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Lord ⓘ |
| partOf | Scottish nobility ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Lord of Annandale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Robert de Brus, 2nd Lord of Annandale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region |
Annandale
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dumfriesshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relatedTo | Robert the Bruce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Robert de Brus, 4th Lord of Annandale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| territoryControlled | Annandale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Lord of Annandale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale Description of subject: William de Brus, 3rd Lord of Annandale, was a 13th-century Scottish nobleman of the Brus (Bruce) family who held the lordship of Annandale and was an ancestor of King Robert the Bruce.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.