Earl of York
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The Earl of York was a medieval English noble title associated with the powerful northern earldom centered on the city of York.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Earl of York canonical | 3 |
| William le Gros, Earl of York | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13308980 — 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: Earl of York Context triple: [Earl of Northumbria, saidToBeSameAs, Earl of York]
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A.
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York was a key 15th-century English noble and claimant to the throne whose dynastic struggle with the Lancastrians helped ignite the Wars of the Roses and paved the way for the Yorkist kings.
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B.
Earl of Lancaster
The Earl of Lancaster was a prominent English noble title in the High Middle Ages, associated with great territorial power and influence within the English royal family.
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C.
Earl of Stafford
The Earl of Stafford is a historic English peerage title associated with prominent medieval noble families, including the Audley family, who held significant regional power and influence.
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D.
Earl of Warwick
The Earl of Warwick is a historic English noble title most famously associated with powerful medieval magnates who played key roles in the Wars of the Roses and national politics.
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E.
Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York
Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York was an English nobleman, military commander, and prominent figure in the late 14th and early 15th centuries who was killed fighting for the Lancastrians at the Battle of Agincourt.
- 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: Earl of York Target entity description: The Earl of York was a medieval English noble title associated with the powerful northern earldom centered on the city of York.
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A.
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York was a key 15th-century English noble and claimant to the throne whose dynastic struggle with the Lancastrians helped ignite the Wars of the Roses and paved the way for the Yorkist kings.
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B.
Earl of Lancaster
The Earl of Lancaster was a prominent English noble title in the High Middle Ages, associated with great territorial power and influence within the English royal family.
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C.
Earl of Stafford
The Earl of Stafford is a historic English peerage title associated with prominent medieval noble families, including the Audley family, who held significant regional power and influence.
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D.
Earl of Warwick
The Earl of Warwick is a historic English noble title most famously associated with powerful medieval magnates who played key roles in the Wars of the Roses and national politics.
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E.
Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York
Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York was an English nobleman, military commander, and prominent figure in the late 14th and early 15th centuries who was killed fighting for the Lancastrians at the Battle of Agincourt.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
earldom
ⓘ
noble title ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
City of York
ⓘ
English nobility ⓘ House of York ⓘ |
| associatedWithInstitution |
English Crown
ⓘ
linked to:
Kingdom of England
|
| country | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| feudalStatus | feudal earldom ⓘ |
| governedRegion |
Yorkshire
ⓘ
area around York ⓘ |
| hasCapital | York ⓘ |
| hasRank | earl ⓘ |
| higherRankThan | baron ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance | major northern earldom ⓘ |
| jurisdictionOver | lands in Yorkshire ⓘ |
| languageOfName | English ⓘ |
| linkedTo |
northern English power structure
ⓘ
politics of medieval England ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
York
ⓘ
Yorkshire ⓘ northern England ⓘ |
| lowerRankThan | duke ⓘ |
| nobleRankIn | English feudal system ⓘ |
| partOf | Peerage of England ⓘ |
| region |
North of England
ⓘ
linked to:
Northern England
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| titleHolderOf | earl ⓘ |
| typeOfTerritory | noble jurisdiction ⓘ |
| usedInPeriod |
Middle Ages
ⓘ
medieval England ⓘ |
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: Earl of York Description of subject: The Earl of York was a medieval English noble title associated with the powerful northern earldom centered on the city of York.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Earl of York