Clan Stirling
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Clan Stirling is a Scottish clan of the Lowlands historically associated with the Stirling area and known for producing notable figures in Scottish and British history.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Clan Stirling canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10703423 — 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: Clan Stirling Context triple: [David Stirling, memberOf, Clan Stirling]
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A.
Clan Montgomery
Clan Montgomery is a historic Scottish clan of Norman origin, traditionally associated with Ayrshire and prominent in Scotland’s medieval and early modern nobility.
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B.
Clan Burnett
Clan Burnett is a Scottish Highland clan historically based in Aberdeenshire, known for its ancestral seat at Crathes Castle and its long-standing role in northeast Scotland’s history.
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C.
Clan Scott
Clan Scott is a prominent Scottish Border clan historically known for its powerful landholding families and influential role in the turbulent politics and warfare of the Anglo-Scottish borderlands.
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D.
Clan Grant
Clan Grant is a historic Scottish Highland clan known for its prominent role in the politics and warfare of the Highlands and its long association with lands in Strathspey.
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E.
Clan Stewart
Clan Stewart is a prominent Scottish Highland clan historically linked to the royal House of Stewart, which produced several kings of Scotland and England.
- 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: Clan Stirling Target entity description: Clan Stirling is a Scottish clan of the Lowlands historically associated with the Stirling area and known for producing notable figures in Scottish and British history.
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A.
Clan Montgomery
Clan Montgomery is a historic Scottish clan of Norman origin, traditionally associated with Ayrshire and prominent in Scotland’s medieval and early modern nobility.
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B.
Clan Burnett
Clan Burnett is a Scottish Highland clan historically based in Aberdeenshire, known for its ancestral seat at Crathes Castle and its long-standing role in northeast Scotland’s history.
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C.
Clan Scott
Clan Scott is a prominent Scottish Border clan historically known for its powerful landholding families and influential role in the turbulent politics and warfare of the Anglo-Scottish borderlands.
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D.
Clan Grant
Clan Grant is a historic Scottish Highland clan known for its prominent role in the politics and warfare of the Highlands and its long association with lands in Strathspey.
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E.
Clan Stewart
Clan Stewart is a prominent Scottish Highland clan historically linked to the royal House of Stewart, which produced several kings of Scotland and England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | Scottish clan ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace | Stirling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| category |
Scottish Lowland clans
ⓘ
Scottish clans ⓘ |
| country | Scotland ⓘ |
| hasBranch |
Stirling of Ardoch
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Stirling of Cadder NERFINISHED ⓘ Stirling of Garden NERFINISHED ⓘ Stirling of Glorat NERFINISHED ⓘ Stirling of Keir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClanBadge | oak leaves ⓘ |
| hasClanChiefSurname | Stirling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClanMotto | Gang Forward NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClanMottoTranslation | Go Forward ⓘ |
| hasClanPlant | oak ⓘ |
| hasClanSociety | Clan Stirling Society NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasClanWarCry | Stirling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasHeraldicSymbol |
bend engrailed
ⓘ
buckles ⓘ molet ⓘ |
| hasHistoricReligion | Presbyterianism ⓘ |
| hasHistoricSeat |
Cadder
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Keir House NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNotableMember |
Archibald Stirling of Keir
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Archibald Stirling, soldier and politician ⓘ James Stirling of Keir NERFINISHED ⓘ Sir James Stirling, 1st Baronet, of Keir NERFINISHED ⓘ Sir James Stirling, Governor of Western Australia NERFINISHED ⓘ Sir James Stirling, Lord Provost of Edinburgh NERFINISHED ⓘ Sir James Stirling, mathematician NERFINISHED ⓘ William Alexander Stirling NERFINISHED ⓘ William Stirling of Keir NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasSurname | Stirling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTartan | Stirling tartan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasTerritorialDesignation |
of Ardoch
ⓘ
of Cadder ⓘ of Garden ⓘ of Glorat ⓘ of Keir ⓘ |
| historicallyAssociatedWith |
British military service
ⓘ
Perthshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Scottish nobility ⓘ Scottish politics ⓘ Stirlingshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalRole |
produced notable figures in British history
ⓘ
produced notable figures in Scottish history ⓘ |
| language |
Scots
ⓘ
Scottish Gaelic ⓘ |
| nameOrigin | Stirling NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| recognizedBy | Court of the Lord Lyon NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | Lowlands of Scotland 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: Clan Stirling Description of subject: Clan Stirling is a Scottish clan of the Lowlands historically associated with the Stirling area and known for producing notable figures in Scottish and British history.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.