Bernard de Brus
E482813
Bernard de Brus was a 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman of the Brus family, a younger son of the powerful Lords of Annandale and a member of the lineage that produced Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Bernard de Brus canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4549478 — 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: Bernard de Brus Context triple: [Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale, child, Bernard de Brus]
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A.
William de Brus
William de Brus was a medieval Scottish nobleman of the Brus family, known primarily as a younger son of the powerful Lords of Annandale.
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B.
Thomas de Brus
Thomas de Brus was a medieval Scottish nobleman of the influential Bruce family, known primarily as a brother of King Robert the Bruce and a participant in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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C.
Robert de Brus V
Robert de Brus V was a 13th-century Scottish nobleman and claimant to the Scottish throne, best known as the grandfather of King Robert the Bruce.
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D.
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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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
- 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: Bernard de Brus Target entity description: Bernard de Brus was a 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman of the Brus family, a younger son of the powerful Lords of Annandale and a member of the lineage that produced Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
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A.
William de Brus
William de Brus was a medieval Scottish nobleman of the Brus family, known primarily as a younger son of the powerful Lords of Annandale.
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B.
Thomas de Brus
Thomas de Brus was a medieval Scottish nobleman of the influential Bruce family, known primarily as a brother of King Robert the Bruce and a participant in the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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C.
Robert de Brus V
Robert de Brus V was a 13th-century Scottish nobleman and claimant to the Scottish throne, best known as the grandfather of King Robert the Bruce.
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D.
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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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 (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
13th-century person
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Anglo-Norman nobleman ⓘ medieval nobleman ⓘ member of the Brus family ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
Kingdom of England
NERFINISHED
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Kingdom of Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Anglo-Norman ⓘ |
| familyName | Brus NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruitCentury | 13th century ⓘ |
| hasAncestralLineage | Robert the Bruce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasRelative | Lords of Annandale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isAncestorOf | Robert the Bruce NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| isYoungerSonOf | Lords of Annandale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfCulture | Anglo-Norman French NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | Brus family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitleRegion | Annandale NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFamilyConnection | lineage of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| timePeriod | High Middle Ages 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: Bernard de Brus Description of subject: Bernard de Brus was a 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman of the Brus family, a younger son of the powerful Lords of Annandale and a member of the lineage that produced Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.