Ealhswith
E123003
Ealhswith was a 9th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman best known as the wife of King Alfred the Great and the mother of several English kings and queens.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ealhswith canonical | 12 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1037116 — 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: Ealhswith Context triple: [Alfred the Great, spouse, Ealhswith]
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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.
Osburh
Osburh was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman best known as the mother of Alfred the Great, king of Wessex.
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C.
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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D.
Æthelwold of Winchester
Æthelwold of Winchester was a leading 10th-century English bishop and monastic reformer, central to the Benedictine Reform and the revival of learning in late Anglo-Saxon England.
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E.
Sarah Hawkred
Sarah Hawkred was the wife of the influential 17th-century Puritan minister and New England clergyman John Cotton.
- 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: Ealhswith Target entity description: Ealhswith was a 9th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman best known as the wife of King Alfred the Great and the mother of several English kings and queens.
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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.
Osburh
Osburh was an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman best known as the mother of Alfred the Great, king of Wessex.
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C.
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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D.
Æthelwold of Winchester
Æthelwold of Winchester was a leading 10th-century English bishop and monastic reformer, central to the Benedictine Reform and the revival of learning in late Anglo-Saxon England.
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E.
Sarah Hawkred
Sarah Hawkred was the wife of the influential 17th-century Puritan minister and New England clergyman John Cotton.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglo-Saxon noblewoman
ⓘ
Queen consort of Wessex ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Mercia ⓘ |
| burialPlace | New Minster, Winchester ⓘ |
| child |
Edward the Elder
ⓘ
Ælfthryth, Countess of Flanders ⓘ Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians ⓘ
linked to:
Æthelflæd
Æthelgyth ⓘ Æthelweard ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Wessex ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Anglo-Saxons
ⓘ
linked to:
Saxons
|
| father | Æthelred Mucel ⓘ |
| floruit | 9th century ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Mother of Edward the Elder
ⓘ
Mother of Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians ⓘ Wife of Alfred the Great ⓘ |
| marriedToMonarch |
Alfred the Great
ⓘ
linked to:
King Alfred the Great
|
| mother | Eadburh of Mercia ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Old English ⓘ |
| notableFamily |
House of Wessex
ⓘ
Mercian nobility ⓘ |
| notableWork | Patronage of religious foundations in Wessex ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Queen consort of the Anglo-Saxons ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| residence | Winchester ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Alfred the Great
ⓘ
linked to:
King Alfred the Great
|
| spouseEndTime | 899 ⓘ |
| spouseOfTitle | King of the Anglo-Saxons ⓘ |
| spouseStartTime | c. 868 ⓘ |
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: Ealhswith Description of subject: Ealhswith was a 9th-century Anglo-Saxon noblewoman best known as the wife of King Alfred the Great and the mother of several English kings and queens.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.