Cecily Neville, Duchess of York
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Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, was a powerful 15th-century English noblewoman and matriarch of the House of York, whose sons included Kings Edward IV and Richard III.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cecily Neville, Duchess of York canonical | 41 |
| Cecily Neville | 5 |
| Cecily Neville (younger) | 1 |
| Cecily of York | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1262026 — 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: Cecily Neville, Duchess of York Context triple: [Richard III of England, mother, Cecily Neville, Duchess of York]
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A.
Elizabeth, Duchess of York
Elizabeth, Duchess of York was the British royal who became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, wife of King George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Elizabeth Woodville
Elizabeth Woodville was a 15th-century English queen consort of King Edward IV, noted for her influential role in the Wars of the Roses and as mother to the Princes in the Tower.
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Henrietta of York
Henrietta of York was an English princess, daughter of the future King James II of England and his first wife Anne Hyde, who died in infancy.
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D.
Catherine of Lancaster
Catherine of Lancaster was a late 14th- and early 15th-century English princess who became Queen of Castile through marriage, helping to link the English royal line with the Iberian Trastámara dynasty.
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E.
Philippa of Lancaster
Philippa of Lancaster was an English-born queen consort of Portugal from the House of Lancaster, whose marriage to King John I helped solidify the Anglo-Portuguese alliance and produced several influential royal children, including Henry the Navigator.
- 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: Cecily Neville, Duchess of York Target entity description: Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, was a powerful 15th-century English noblewoman and matriarch of the House of York, whose sons included Kings Edward IV and Richard III.
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A.
Elizabeth, Duchess of York
Elizabeth, Duchess of York was the British royal who became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, wife of King George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II.
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B.
Elizabeth Woodville
Elizabeth Woodville was a 15th-century English queen consort of King Edward IV, noted for her influential role in the Wars of the Roses and as mother to the Princes in the Tower.
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C.
Henrietta of York
Henrietta of York was an English princess, daughter of the future King James II of England and his first wife Anne Hyde, who died in infancy.
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D.
Catherine of Lancaster
Catherine of Lancaster was a late 14th- and early 15th-century English princess who became Queen of Castile through marriage, helping to link the English royal line with the Iberian Trastámara dynasty.
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E.
Philippa of Lancaster
Philippa of Lancaster was an English-born queen consort of Portugal from the House of Lancaster, whose marriage to King John I helped solidify the Anglo-Portuguese alliance and produced several influential royal children, including Henry the Navigator.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Cecily Neville, Duchess of York Description of subject: Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, was a powerful 15th-century English noblewoman and matriarch of the House of York, whose sons included Kings Edward IV and Richard III.
Referenced by (48)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Richard Plantagenet
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