Joan (first wife)
E28124
Joan (first wife) was the first, little-documented wife of Thomas Cranmer, the 16th-century Archbishop of Canterbury and leading figure of the English Reformation.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joan (first wife) canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T220782 — 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: Joan (first wife) Context triple: [Thomas Cranmer, spouse, Joan (first wife)]
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A.
Eleanor
Eleanor is a feminine given name most famously borne by Eleanor Roosevelt, the influential First Lady of the United States and human rights advocate.
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B.
Eleanor
Eleanor was one of the merchant ships in Boston Harbor whose tea cargo was destroyed during the Boston Tea Party protest against British taxation in 1773.
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C.
Maud of Wales
Maud of Wales was a British princess who became Queen of Norway as the wife of King Haakon VII.
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D.
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Eleanor of Aquitaine was a powerful 12th-century queen consort of both France and England and one of the most influential and wealthy women of the Middle Ages.
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E.
Margaret
Margaret is a feminine given name of Greek origin, traditionally associated with the meaning "pearl" and widely used in English-speaking countries.
- 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: Joan (first wife) Target entity description: Joan (first wife) was the first, little-documented wife of Thomas Cranmer, the 16th-century Archbishop of Canterbury and leading figure of the English Reformation.
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A.
Eleanor
Eleanor is a feminine given name most famously borne by Eleanor Roosevelt, the influential First Lady of the United States and human rights advocate.
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B.
Eleanor
Eleanor was one of the merchant ships in Boston Harbor whose tea cargo was destroyed during the Boston Tea Party protest against British taxation in 1773.
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C.
Maud of Wales
Maud of Wales was a British princess who became Queen of Norway as the wife of King Haakon VII.
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D.
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Eleanor of Aquitaine was a powerful 12th-century queen consort of both France and England and one of the most influential and wealthy women of the Middle Ages.
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E.
Margaret
Margaret is a feminine given name of Greek origin, traditionally associated with the meaning "pearl" and widely used in English-speaking countries.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (11)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | historical figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
English Reformation
ⓘ
linked to:
English Reformation Parliament era
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| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| describedAs | little-documented wife of Thomas Cranmer ⓘ |
| floruit | 16th century ⓘ |
| hasRole | wife of Thomas Cranmer ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Thomas Cranmer ⓘ |
| positionInFamily | first wife of Thomas Cranmer ⓘ |
| spouseOccupation |
Archbishop of Canterbury
ⓘ
English Reformation leader ⓘ |
| spouseOf | Thomas Cranmer ⓘ |
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: Joan (first wife) Description of subject: Joan (first wife) was the first, little-documented wife of Thomas Cranmer, the 16th-century Archbishop of Canterbury and leading figure of the English Reformation.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.