William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester
E170521
William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, was a prominent 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and feudal magnate who held extensive lands in England and Wales and played a significant role in the politics of the reigns of Kings Stephen and Henry II.
All labels observed (3)
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| William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester canonical | 10 |
| William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester | 2 |
| William, 2nd Earl of Gloucester | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1495707 — 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: William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester Context triple: [Isabella of Gloucester, father, William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester]
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Percy, Duke of Dunstable
Percy, Duke of Dunstable is a blustering, overbearing aristocrat and comic antagonist in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories.
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Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster
Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, was a 13th-century English prince and military leader who became a powerful noble through extensive landholdings and royal favor, founding the House of Lancaster.
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C.
John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall
John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, was a 14th-century English prince, the second son of King Edward II and Isabella of France, who played a notable military role in the early stages of the Hundred Years’ War before his early death.
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Richard de Montfort
Richard de Montfort was a medieval nobleman of the Montfort family, notable as a descendant of English royalty through his mother Eleanor of England, Countess of Pembroke.
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Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall
Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall was a 13th-century English prince, wealthy magnate, and elected King of the Romans who played a significant role in European politics during the reigns of his brother Henry III and beyond.
- 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: William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester Target entity description: William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, was a prominent 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and feudal magnate who held extensive lands in England and Wales and played a significant role in the politics of the reigns of Kings Stephen and Henry II.
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A.
Percy, Duke of Dunstable
Percy, Duke of Dunstable is a blustering, overbearing aristocrat and comic antagonist in P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories.
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B.
Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster
Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster, was a 13th-century English prince and military leader who became a powerful noble through extensive landholdings and royal favor, founding the House of Lancaster.
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C.
John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall
John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, was a 14th-century English prince, the second son of King Edward II and Isabella of France, who played a notable military role in the early stages of the Hundred Years’ War before his early death.
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D.
Richard de Montfort
Richard de Montfort was a medieval nobleman of the Montfort family, notable as a descendant of English royalty through his mother Eleanor of England, Countess of Pembroke.
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E.
Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall
Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall was a 13th-century English prince, wealthy magnate, and elected King of the Romans who played a significant role in European politics during the reigns of his brother Henry III and beyond.
- 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: William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester Description of subject: William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, was a prominent 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and feudal magnate who held extensive lands in England and Wales and played a significant role in the politics of the reigns of Kings Stephen and Henry II.
Referenced by (14)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Isabel of Gloucester married King John of England
linked to: William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester