Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers
E182285
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, was an English nobleman, soldier, and patron of learning in the late 15th century, noted for his influence at the Yorkist court and his role in the turbulent politics surrounding the Wars of the Roses.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers canonical | 17 |
| 2nd Earl Rivers | 4 |
| Anthony Woodville | 3 |
| Earl Rivers | 2 |
| Anthony Woodville was a leading courtier of Edward IV | 1 |
| Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1555934 — 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: Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers Context triple: [Edward V of England, guardian, Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers]
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Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset
Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset, was a short-lived English prince of the early Tudor dynasty, known primarily as the younger son of King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York.
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Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter
Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, was an early 15th-century English nobleman, military commander, and half-uncle of King Henry V who played a prominent role in the Hundred Years’ War and royal government.
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C.
William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton
William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, was an English nobleman and courtier, brother of Queen Catherine Parr, who rose to prominence during the reign of Henry VIII and Edward VI.
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D.
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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Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (Lord Saye and Sele)
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (Lord Saye and Sele), was a prominent 17th-century English nobleman and Puritan leader influential in early colonial ventures in North America.
- 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: Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers Target entity description: Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, was an English nobleman, soldier, and patron of learning in the late 15th century, noted for his influence at the Yorkist court and his role in the turbulent politics surrounding the Wars of the Roses.
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A.
Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset
Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset, was a short-lived English prince of the early Tudor dynasty, known primarily as the younger son of King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York.
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B.
Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter
Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, was an early 15th-century English nobleman, military commander, and half-uncle of King Henry V who played a prominent role in the Hundred Years’ War and royal government.
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C.
William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton
William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, was an English nobleman and courtier, brother of Queen Catherine Parr, who rose to prominence during the reign of Henry VIII and Edward VI.
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D.
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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E.
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (Lord Saye and Sele)
Robert Rich, 2nd Earl of Warwick (Lord Saye and Sele), was a prominent 17th-century English nobleman and Puritan leader influential in early colonial ventures in North America.
- 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: Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers Description of subject: Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, was an English nobleman, soldier, and patron of learning in the late 15th century, noted for his influence at the Yorkist court and his role in the turbulent politics surrounding the Wars of the Roses.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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Woodville
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Woodville
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Lord Scales
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Anthony Woodville was a leading courtier of Edward IV
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