Maud, Countess of Huntingdon
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Maud, Countess of Huntingdon was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman and heiress whose marriage to David I of Scotland helped strengthen his claim to the Scottish throne and linked the Scottish crown to powerful English aristocratic lineages.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Maud, Countess of Huntingdon canonical | 12 |
| Countess of Huntingdon | 2 |
| Matilda, Countess of Huntingdon | 1 |
| Maud of Chester, Countess of Huntingdon | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T562567 — 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: Maud, Countess of Huntingdon Context triple: [David I of Scotland, spouse, Maud, Countess of Huntingdon]
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A.
Elizabeth Popham
Elizabeth Popham was an English gentlewoman of the 18th century best known as the mother of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, a prominent British statesman.
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B.
Margaret Blagge
Margaret Blagge was an English gentlewoman at the court of Charles II, noted for her piety and for being the first wife of statesman Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin.
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C.
Marianne Stanley
Marianne Stanley is an American basketball coach and former player best known for her long career in women’s college and professional basketball, including a stint as a WNBA head coach.
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D.
Margery Durant
Margery Durant was an American author and socialite best known for her memoir about her father, General Motors founder William C. Durant, and for her involvement in early 20th-century automotive and aviation culture.
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E.
Henrietta Maria Yarborough
Henrietta Maria Yarborough was the wife of English architect and playwright Sir John Vanbrugh, known primarily through her marriage into this prominent cultural figure’s life.
- 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: Maud, Countess of Huntingdon Target entity description: Maud, Countess of Huntingdon was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman and heiress whose marriage to David I of Scotland helped strengthen his claim to the Scottish throne and linked the Scottish crown to powerful English aristocratic lineages.
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A.
Elizabeth Popham
Elizabeth Popham was an English gentlewoman of the 18th century best known as the mother of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, a prominent British statesman.
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B.
Margaret Blagge
Margaret Blagge was an English gentlewoman at the court of Charles II, noted for her piety and for being the first wife of statesman Sidney Godolphin, 1st Earl of Godolphin.
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C.
Marianne Stanley
Marianne Stanley is an American basketball coach and former player best known for her long career in women’s college and professional basketball, including a stint as a WNBA head coach.
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D.
Margery Durant
Margery Durant was an American author and socialite best known for her memoir about her father, General Motors founder William C. Durant, and for her involvement in early 20th-century automotive and aviation culture.
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E.
Henrietta Maria Yarborough
Henrietta Maria Yarborough was the wife of English architect and playwright Sir John Vanbrugh, known primarily through her marriage into this prominent cultural figure’s life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglo-Norman noble
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countess ⓘ heiress ⓘ noblewoman ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Matilda of Huntingdon
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Maud, Countess of Huntingdon ⓘ
surface form:
Matilda, Countess of Huntingdon
|
| associatedWith |
David I’s accession to the Scottish throne
ⓘ
Earldom of Huntingdon ⓘ
surface form:
earldom of Huntingdon
Earl of Northampton ⓘ
surface form:
earldom of Northampton
|
| burialPlace | Scone Abbey ⓘ |
| child |
Claricia of Scotland
ⓘ
Henry of Scotland, Earl of Northumbria ⓘ Hodierna of Scotland ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | circa 1074 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1130 ⓘ |
| era | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Anglo-Norman ⓘ |
| family |
House of Godwin
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surface form:
House of Huntingdon
|
| father | Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria ⓘ |
| givenName | Maud ⓘ |
| influenced | succession politics in 12th-century Scotland ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Anglo-Norman
ⓘ
surface form:
Norman French
Old English ⓘ |
| lordOf |
Huntingdon
ⓘ
Northampton ⓘ |
| marriage |
marriage to David I of Scotland circa 1113
ⓘ
marriage to Simon de Senlis before marriage to David I of Scotland ⓘ |
| maternalAncestry | Norman nobility ⓘ |
| mother | Judith of Lens ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Anglo-Norman aristocracy ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Maud, Countess of Huntingdon
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Countess of Huntingdon
|
| notableFor |
linking Scottish crown to powerful English aristocratic lineages
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marriage alliance with David I of Scotland ⓘ strengthening David I’s claim to the Scottish throne ⓘ |
| paternalAncestry | Northumbrian nobility ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| politicalRole | dynastic link between English and Scottish nobility ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Maud, Countess of Huntingdon
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Countess of Huntingdon
Countess of Northampton ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| socialStatus | high nobility ⓘ |
| spouse |
David I of Scotland
ⓘ
Simon de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton ⓘ |
| stepChild |
Simon de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton
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surface form:
Simon II de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton
Waltheof de Senlis ⓘ |
| titleInheritedFrom | Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria ⓘ |
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: Maud, Countess of Huntingdon Description of subject: Maud, Countess of Huntingdon was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman and heiress whose marriage to David I of Scotland helped strengthen his claim to the Scottish throne and linked the Scottish crown to powerful English aristocratic lineages.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Matilda, Countess of Huntingdon
this entity surface form:
Countess of Huntingdon
Maud, Countess of Huntingdon
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positionHeld
→
Maud, Countess of Huntingdon
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Countess of Huntingdon
Henry of Scotland, Earl of Northumbria
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predecessorAsEarlOfHuntingdon
→
Maud, Countess of Huntingdon
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this entity surface form:
Maud of Chester, Countess of Huntingdon