Edmund Berry Godfrey
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Edmund Berry Godfrey was a 17th-century English magistrate whose mysterious death in 1678 became a central event in the Popish Plot hysteria.
All labels observed (1)
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| Edmund Berry Godfrey canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21686208 — 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: Edmund Berry Godfrey Context triple: [Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, name, Edmund Berry Godfrey]
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A.
Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall
Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall was a 13th-century English nobleman and influential landowner who served under King Edward I and was known for his wealth, piety, and patronage of religious institutions.
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B.
Godfrey Cambridge
Godfrey Cambridge was an American comedian and actor known for his sharp social satire and prominent roles in 1960s and 1970s film and television.
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C.
Hamon of Gloucester
Hamon of Gloucester was a lesser-known medieval English nobleman, notable primarily as a son of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, an influential supporter of Empress Matilda during the Anarchy.
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D.
Edmund of Abingdon
Edmund of Abingdon was a 13th-century English scholar, theologian, and Archbishop of Canterbury who was later canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church.
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E.
Gerald de Windsor
Gerald de Windsor was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and royal official in Wales whose descendants, the Geraldines, became a powerful dynastic family in Ireland and Britain.
- 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: Edmund Berry Godfrey Target entity description: Edmund Berry Godfrey was a 17th-century English magistrate whose mysterious death in 1678 became a central event in the Popish Plot hysteria.
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A.
Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall
Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall was a 13th-century English nobleman and influential landowner who served under King Edward I and was known for his wealth, piety, and patronage of religious institutions.
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B.
Godfrey Cambridge
Godfrey Cambridge was an American comedian and actor known for his sharp social satire and prominent roles in 1960s and 1970s film and television.
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C.
Hamon of Gloucester
Hamon of Gloucester was a lesser-known medieval English nobleman, notable primarily as a son of Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester, an influential supporter of Empress Matilda during the Anarchy.
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D.
Edmund of Abingdon
Edmund of Abingdon was a 13th-century English scholar, theologian, and Archbishop of Canterbury who was later canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church.
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E.
Gerald de Windsor
Gerald de Windsor was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and royal official in Wales whose descendants, the Geraldines, became a powerful dynastic family in Ireland and Britain.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.