Osburh
E122132
Osburh was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman best known as the mother of Alfred the Great, king of Wessex.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Osburh canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1037115 — 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: Osburh Context triple: [Alfred the Great, mother, Osburh]
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A.
Ealdgyth
Ealdgyth was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman of the 11th century, known primarily as the mother of Edward the Exile and thus a link in the lineage of the English royal house before the Norman Conquest.
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B.
Edith of Wessex
Edith of Wessex was an 11th-century English queen consort, daughter of the powerful Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and wife of King Edward the Confessor.
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C.
Eremburga of Mortain
Eremburga of Mortain was a Norman noblewoman best known as the wife of Roger I, Count of Sicily, and a member of the influential Mortain family.
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D.
Sarah Hawkred
Sarah Hawkred was the wife of the influential 17th-century Puritan minister and New England clergyman John Cotton.
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E.
Herleva of Falaise
Herleva of Falaise was a Norman woman of modest origins best known as the mother of William the Conqueror, the first Norman king of 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: Osburh Target entity description: Osburh was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman best known as the mother of Alfred the Great, king of Wessex.
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A.
Ealdgyth
Ealdgyth was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman of the 11th century, known primarily as the mother of Edward the Exile and thus a link in the lineage of the English royal house before the Norman Conquest.
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B.
Edith of Wessex
Edith of Wessex was an 11th-century English queen consort, daughter of the powerful Godwin, Earl of Wessex, and wife of King Edward the Confessor.
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C.
Eremburga of Mortain
Eremburga of Mortain was a Norman noblewoman best known as the wife of Roger I, Count of Sicily, and a member of the influential Mortain family.
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D.
Sarah Hawkred
Sarah Hawkred was the wife of the influential 17th-century Puritan minister and New England clergyman John Cotton.
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E.
Herleva of Falaise
Herleva of Falaise was a Norman woman of modest origins best known as the mother of William the Conqueror, the first Norman king of England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
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: Osburh Description of subject: Osburh was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman best known as the mother of Alfred the Great, king of Wessex.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.