Robert de Brus, 7th Lord of Annandale
E444897
Robert de Brus, 7th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent 13th-century Scottish nobleman and claimant to the Scottish throne, best known as the grandfather of King Robert the Bruce.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert de Brus, 7th Lord of Annandale canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4346028 — 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: Robert de Brus, 7th Lord of Annandale Context triple: [Lord of Annandale, hasTitleHolder, Robert de Brus, 7th Lord of Annandale]
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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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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, 4th Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 4th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and ancestor of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
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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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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.
- 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: Robert de Brus, 7th Lord of Annandale Target entity description: Robert de Brus, 7th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent 13th-century Scottish nobleman and claimant to the Scottish throne, best known as the grandfather of 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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B.
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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C.
Robert de Brus, 4th Lord of Annandale
Robert de Brus, 4th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and ancestor of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
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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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Lord of Annandale
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Scottish nobleman ⓘ claimant to the Scottish throne ⓘ medieval noble ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Kingdom of England
NERFINISHED
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Kingdom of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Robert Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Robert Bruce, the Competitor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | c. 1210 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Guisborough Priory (probable) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Bernard de Brus
NERFINISHED
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Isabel de Brus NERFINISHED ⓘ John de Brus NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard de Brus NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale’s heir Robert (later Robert de Brus, 6th of Annandale’s line – sometimes styled Robert Bruce of Annandale) NERFINISHED ⓘ William de Brus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Kingdom of England
ⓘ
Kingdom of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| claimBasis | descent from David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon ⓘ |
| contemporaryOf |
Edward I of England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John Balliol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathDate | 31 March 1295 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Lochmaben Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | 13th century ⓘ |
| familyName | de Brus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| grandfather | Robert I of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldLand |
Annandale, Dumfriesshire
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Cleveland, Yorkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Hartlepool, County Durham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language |
Latin
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Norman French NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| legalStatus | one of the main competitors for the Scottish crown in 1292 ⓘ |
| mother | Isabel of Huntingdon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Bruce family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being grandfather of King Robert the Bruce
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claim to the Scottish throne during the Great Cause ⓘ |
| notableRelative | Robert I of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | the Great Cause (Scottish succession dispute, 1290–1292) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Regent of Scotland (disputed, in context of the Great Cause) ⓘ |
| region |
Northern England
NERFINISHED
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Scotland ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| spouse | Isabella de Clare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| throneAwardedTo | John Balliol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| throneClaimOutcome | unsuccessful ⓘ |
| title |
Earl of Carrick (jure uxoris, claimed through his son)
NERFINISHED
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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: Robert de Brus, 7th Lord of Annandale Description of subject: Robert de Brus, 7th Lord of Annandale, was a prominent 13th-century Scottish nobleman and claimant to the Scottish throne, best known as the grandfather of King Robert the Bruce.
Referenced by (1)
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