Sir John Woodville
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Sir John Woodville was an English nobleman of the influential Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses in the 15th century.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Woodville | 4 |
| Sir John Woodville canonical | 2 |
| Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1592081 — 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: Sir John Woodville Context triple: [Chigwell School, hasAlumnus, Sir John Woodville]
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A.
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers
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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B.
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, known as "the Kingmaker," was a powerful 15th-century English nobleman whose shifting alliances and military influence decisively shaped the dynastic struggle between the houses of York and Lancaster.
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C.
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Bedford
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Bedford, was a short-lived English royal prince of the House of York, born posthumously to George, Duke of Clarence, and thus a nephew of King Edward IV and cousin to Edward V.
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D.
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, was a 15th-century English nobleman whose posthumous son became King Henry VII, founding the Tudor dynasty.
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E.
John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford
John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, was a prominent English prince and military commander of the early 15th century, noted for his role in the Hundred Years' War and his regency of France during the minority of Henry VI.
- 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: Sir John Woodville Target entity description: Sir John Woodville was an English nobleman of the influential Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses in the 15th century.
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A.
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers
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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B.
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, known as "the Kingmaker," was a powerful 15th-century English nobleman whose shifting alliances and military influence decisively shaped the dynastic struggle between the houses of York and Lancaster.
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C.
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Bedford
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Bedford, was a short-lived English royal prince of the House of York, born posthumously to George, Duke of Clarence, and thus a nephew of King Edward IV and cousin to Edward V.
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D.
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond
Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, was a 15th-century English nobleman whose posthumous son became King Henry VII, founding the Tudor dynasty.
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E.
John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford
John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, was a prominent English prince and military commander of the early 15th century, noted for his role in the Hundred Years' War and his regency of France during the minority of Henry VI.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
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: Sir John Woodville Description of subject: Sir John Woodville was an English nobleman of the influential Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses in the 15th century.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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