William Cornysh
E252628
William Cornysh was an English Renaissance composer and dramatist known for his influential sacred and secular music at the Tudor court.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Cornysh canonical | 8 |
| William Cornysh the Younger | 3 |
| William Cornysh the younger | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2288619 — 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 Cornysh Context triple: [Master of the Children, notableOfficeHolder, William Cornysh]
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A.
Mr. Furnival
Mr. Furnival is a prominent London barrister in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Orley Farm," known for his legal skill, social ambition, and complex personal life.
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B.
Crispin Bonham-Carter
Crispin Bonham-Carter is a British actor and theatre director best known for playing Mr. Bingley in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
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C.
John Underhill
John Underhill is a distinguished geologist recognized for his significant contributions to the earth sciences, for which he received the prestigious William Smith Medal.
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D.
John Underhill
John Underhill was a 17th-century English colonial soldier and militia leader in New England, known for his prominent and controversial role in early Native American conflicts.
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E.
Giles
Giles is a lonely, aging gay artist and Elisa's compassionate neighbor and confidant in Guillermo del Toro's film "The Shape of Water."
- 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 Cornysh Target entity description: William Cornysh was an English Renaissance composer and dramatist known for his influential sacred and secular music at the Tudor court.
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A.
Mr. Furnival
Mr. Furnival is a prominent London barrister in Anthony Trollope’s novel "Orley Farm," known for his legal skill, social ambition, and complex personal life.
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B.
Crispin Bonham-Carter
Crispin Bonham-Carter is a British actor and theatre director best known for playing Mr. Bingley in the 1995 BBC adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice."
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C.
John Underhill
John Underhill is a distinguished geologist recognized for his significant contributions to the earth sciences, for which he received the prestigious William Smith Medal.
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D.
John Underhill
John Underhill was a 17th-century English colonial soldier and militia leader in New England, known for his prominent and controversial role in early Native American conflicts.
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E.
Giles
Giles is the given name of Lytton Strachey, the influential English writer and critic associated with the Bloomsbury Group.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English Renaissance composer
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Renaissance composer ⓘ composer ⓘ dramatist ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Henry VII of England
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Henry VIII of England ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| employer |
Chapel Royal
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Tudor court ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
drama
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music ⓘ |
| floruit |
early 16th century
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late 15th century ⓘ |
| genre |
choral music
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liturgical music ⓘ sacred music ⓘ secular music ⓘ song ⓘ |
| hasRole |
court entertainer
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playwright ⓘ songwriter ⓘ |
| influenced | English Tudor church music ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
English
ⓘ
Latin ⓘ |
| movement | English Renaissance ⓘ |
| name | William Cornysh ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influential sacred music at the Tudor court
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influential secular songs at the Tudor court ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ah, Robin, gentle Robin
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Ave Maria, mater Dei ⓘ Blow thy horn, hunter ⓘ My love she mour’th ⓘ Salve Regina ⓘ Stabat mater dolorosa ⓘ Woefully arrayed ⓘ |
| occupation |
composer
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court musician ⓘ dramatist ⓘ poet ⓘ |
| partOf |
Tudor court culture
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linked to:
Tudor court
|
| positionHeld | Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| style | Tudor polyphony ⓘ |
| workLocation |
London
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linked to:
London, England
|
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 Cornysh Description of subject: William Cornysh was an English Renaissance composer and dramatist known for his influential sacred and secular music at the Tudor court.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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