Margaret Cocks
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Margaret Cocks was an 18th-century English gentlewoman best known as the mother of Sir Charles Yorke, who became Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Margaret Cocks canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2068284 — 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: Margaret Cocks Context triple: [Sir Charles Yorke, mother, Margaret Cocks]
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A.
Margaret Gamage
Margaret Gamage was a 16th-century Welsh noblewoman of the Gamage family who became Countess of Nottingham through her marriage into the English Howard dynasty.
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B.
Margaret Biggins
Margaret Biggins was the wife of Sir Richard Arkwright, the pioneering English inventor and industrialist of the early textile factory system.
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C.
Margaret Craig
Margaret Craig is known primarily as the child of William Craig.
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D.
Marjorie Elizabeth Lloyd
Marjorie Elizabeth Lloyd is the daughter of famed silent film comedian and actor Harold Lloyd.
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E.
Margaret Tucker
Margaret Tucker was an Aboriginal Australian activist and one of the country’s first female Indigenous authors, known for her pioneering work in civil rights and welfare for Aboriginal people.
- 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: Margaret Cocks Target entity description: Margaret Cocks was an 18th-century English gentlewoman best known as the mother of Sir Charles Yorke, who became Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.
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A.
Margaret Gamage
Margaret Gamage was a 16th-century Welsh noblewoman of the Gamage family who became Countess of Nottingham through her marriage into the English Howard dynasty.
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B.
Margaret Biggins
Margaret Biggins was the wife of Sir Richard Arkwright, the pioneering English inventor and industrialist of the early textile factory system.
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C.
Margaret Craig
Margaret Craig is known primarily as the child of William Craig.
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D.
Marjorie Elizabeth Lloyd
Marjorie Elizabeth Lloyd is the daughter of famed silent film comedian and actor Harold Lloyd.
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E.
Margaret Tucker
Margaret Tucker was an Aboriginal Australian activist and one of the country’s first female Indigenous authors, known for her pioneering work in civil rights and welfare for Aboriginal people.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English gentlewoman
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| child | Sir Charles Yorke ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| mother | Margaret Cocks ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of Sir Charles Yorke ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Lord Chancellor of Great Britain
ⓘ
linked to:
Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom
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| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
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: Margaret Cocks Description of subject: Margaret Cocks was an 18th-century English gentlewoman best known as the mother of Sir Charles Yorke, who became Lord Chancellor of Great Britain.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.