William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham
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William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham was a 16th-century English nobleman and courtier who served under the Tudor monarchs and founded the Howard of Effingham line that became prominent in naval and political affairs.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham canonical | 6 |
| Baron Howard of Effingham | 1 |
| Lord Howard of Effingham | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1506659 — 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 Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham Context triple: [Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, father, William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham]
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Lord Thomas Howard
Lord Thomas Howard was an English nobleman and naval commander best known for his leadership role in the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588.
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Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, was an English nobleman and Lord High Admiral who commanded the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588.
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2nd Earl of Guilford
The 2nd Earl of Guilford is the British noble title held by Frederick North, the Prime Minister of Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War.
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John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley
John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley, was a 19th-century British Whig politician and peer who served in several governmental roles and founded the Alderley branch of the influential Stanley family.
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Edward Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke
Edward Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke was an 18th-century British aristocrat and politician, heir to the Earldom of Sandwich and a member of the influential Montagu family.
- 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 Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham Target entity description: William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham was a 16th-century English nobleman and courtier who served under the Tudor monarchs and founded the Howard of Effingham line that became prominent in naval and political affairs.
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A.
Lord Thomas Howard
Lord Thomas Howard was an English nobleman and naval commander best known for his leadership role in the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588.
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B.
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, was an English nobleman and Lord High Admiral who commanded the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588.
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C.
2nd Earl of Guilford
The 2nd Earl of Guilford is the British noble title held by Frederick North, the Prime Minister of Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War.
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D.
John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley
John Stanley, 1st Baron Stanley of Alderley, was a 19th-century British Whig politician and peer who served in several governmental roles and founded the Alderley branch of the influential Stanley family.
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E.
Edward Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke
Edward Montagu, Viscount Hinchingbrooke was an 18th-century British aristocrat and politician, heir to the Earldom of Sandwich and a member of the influential Montagu family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
How these facts were elicited
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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 Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham Description of subject: William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham was a 16th-century English nobleman and courtier who served under the Tudor monarchs and founded the Howard of Effingham line that became prominent in naval and political affairs.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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