Marriage (Scotland) Act 1939
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The Marriage (Scotland) Act 1939 is a UK statute that reformed Scottish marriage law, notably curbing the tradition of irregular or “runaway” marriages that had made places like Gretna Green famous.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Marriage (Scotland) Act 1939 canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11876527 — 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: Marriage (Scotland) Act 1939 Context triple: [Gretna Green, marriageLawChangeAffected, Marriage (Scotland) Act 1939]
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A.
Matrimonial Causes Act 1973
The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 is a key piece of UK legislation that governs divorce, financial provision, and related matrimonial proceedings in England and Wales.
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B.
Royal Marriages Act 1772
The Royal Marriages Act 1772 was a British law that required descendants of King George II to obtain the monarch’s consent before marrying, significantly restricting the marriage choices of the royal family for over two centuries.
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C.
Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act
The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act was a key apartheid-era South African law that outlawed marriages between people classified as belonging to different racial groups.
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D.
Married Women’s Property Act 1882
The Married Women’s Property Act 1882 was a landmark British law that for the first time allowed married women to own, control, and dispose of property in their own right, significantly advancing women’s legal and economic independence.
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E.
Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013
The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 is a landmark UK law that legalized civil marriage for same-sex couples in England and Wales, granting them equal marriage rights to opposite-sex couples.
- 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: Marriage (Scotland) Act 1939 Target entity description: The Marriage (Scotland) Act 1939 is a UK statute that reformed Scottish marriage law, notably curbing the tradition of irregular or “runaway” marriages that had made places like Gretna Green famous.
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A.
Matrimonial Causes Act 1973
The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 is a key piece of UK legislation that governs divorce, financial provision, and related matrimonial proceedings in England and Wales.
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B.
Royal Marriages Act 1772
The Royal Marriages Act 1772 was a British law that required descendants of King George II to obtain the monarch’s consent before marrying, significantly restricting the marriage choices of the royal family for over two centuries.
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C.
Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act
The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act was a key apartheid-era South African law that outlawed marriages between people classified as belonging to different racial groups.
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D.
Married Women’s Property Act 1882
The Married Women’s Property Act 1882 was a landmark British law that for the first time allowed married women to own, control, and dispose of property in their own right, significantly advancing women’s legal and economic independence.
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E.
Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013
The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 is a landmark UK law that legalized civil marriage for same-sex couples in England and Wales, granting them equal marriage rights to opposite-sex couples.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom
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Scottish marriage law statute ⓘ |
| affectsLocation | Gretna Green NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| appliesToTerritory | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| hasConsequence |
increased formal regulation of marriage ceremonies in Scotland
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narrowed circumstances in which informal marriages were recognised in Scotland ⓘ |
| historicalContext | pre‑World War II legal reforms in the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| isPartOf |
Scots family law framework
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United Kingdom marriage legislation ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Scotland ⓘ |
| languageOfDocument | English ⓘ |
| legalArea |
capacity to marry
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marriage formalities ⓘ validity of marriage ⓘ |
| legalSystem | Scots law ⓘ |
| legislativeBody | Parliament of the United Kingdom NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEffect |
curbed the tradition of irregular marriages in Scotland
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reduced the use of Gretna Green for runaway marriages ⓘ |
| purpose |
reform of Scottish marriage law
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regulation of irregular marriages in Scotland ⓘ restriction of so‑called runaway marriages ⓘ |
| reformsPractice | irregular marriage in Scots law ⓘ |
| regionOfLaw | Scotland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regulates |
formalities for contracting marriage in Scotland
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requirements for a valid marriage in Scotland ⓘ |
| shortTitle | Marriage (Scotland) Act 1939 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| subject |
family law
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marriage law ⓘ |
| typeOfLaw |
public law
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statutory law ⓘ |
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: Marriage (Scotland) Act 1939 Description of subject: The Marriage (Scotland) Act 1939 is a UK statute that reformed Scottish marriage law, notably curbing the tradition of irregular or “runaway” marriages that had made places like Gretna Green famous.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Gretna Green