Earl of March
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The Earl of March is a historic noble title in the Peerage of England and Scotland, long associated with powerful border lords and claimants to the throne.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Earl of March canonical | 23 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2841505 — 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: Earl of March Context triple: [Henry V of England, title, Earl of March]
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A.
Cecil King
Cecil King is a notable British newspaper executive and publisher who played a major role in mid-20th-century media, particularly through his leadership of the Daily Mirror.
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B.
Earls Nelson
Earls Nelson were a British noble title created for the family of Admiral Horatio Nelson, commemorating his naval victories and legacy.
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C.
Earl Baldwin
Earl Baldwin was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood's early sound era, known for contributing to numerous studio films in the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Duke of Maine
The Duke of Maine was a French noble title most famously held by Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, the legitimized son of King Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, who played a notable role in the politics of the late reign of Louis XIV and the Regency.
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E.
Henry Crown
Henry Crown was a prominent American industrialist and philanthropist best known for building Material Service Corporation and his major ownership stake in General Dynamics.
- 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: Earl of March Target entity description: The Earl of March is a historic noble title in the Peerage of England and Scotland, long associated with powerful border lords and claimants to the throne.
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A.
Cecil King
Cecil King is a notable British newspaper executive and publisher who played a major role in mid-20th-century media, particularly through his leadership of the Daily Mirror.
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B.
Earls Nelson
Earls Nelson were a British noble title created for the family of Admiral Horatio Nelson, commemorating his naval victories and legacy.
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C.
Earl Baldwin
Earl Baldwin was an American screenwriter active during Hollywood's early sound era, known for contributing to numerous studio films in the 1930s and 1940s.
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D.
Duke of Maine
The Duke of Maine was a French noble title most famously held by Louis-Auguste de Bourbon, the legitimized son of King Louis XIV and Madame de Montespan, who played a notable role in the politics of the late reign of Louis XIV and the Regency.
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E.
Henry Crown
Henry Crown was a prominent American industrialist and philanthropist best known for building Material Service Corporation and his major ownership stake in General Dynamics.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
earldom
ⓘ
hereditary title ⓘ noble title ⓘ |
| associatedDynasty |
Plantagenet
ⓘ
linked to:
House of Plantagenet
Yorkist ⓘ
linked to:
House of York
|
| associatedRegion |
English Marches
ⓘ
Scottish Marches ⓘ
linked to:
Scottish Borders
|
| associatedWith |
Anglo-Scottish border
ⓘ
border lords ⓘ claimants to the throne ⓘ |
| category |
Earls in the Peerage of England
ⓘ
linked to:
Peerage of England
Earls in the Peerage of Scotland ⓘ English nobility ⓘ Scottish nobility ⓘ |
| country |
Kingdom of England
ⓘ
Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| feudalFunction |
administration of border territories
ⓘ
military leadership ⓘ |
| hasMultipleCreations | true ⓘ |
| hasTerritorialDesignation | Marches ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Late Middle Ages
ⓘ
Middle Ages ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle |
English
ⓘ
Scots ⓘ |
| linkedToConflict |
Anglo-Scottish border wars
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglo-Scottish Wars
Wars of the Roses ⓘ |
| linkedToMonarchy |
English monarchy
ⓘ
Scottish monarchy ⓘ
linked to:
Kings of Scotland
|
| nobilityRank | earl ⓘ |
| notableHolder |
Edward, Earl of March
ⓘ
House of Dunbar ⓘ
linked to:
Dunbar Castle
House of York ⓘ |
| notableHolderRole |
Edward, Earl of March was later King Edward IV of England
ⓘ
linked to:
Edward, Earl of March
|
| partOf |
Peerage of England
ⓘ
Peerage of Scotland ⓘ |
| politicalRole |
border defence
ⓘ
regional governance ⓘ royal succession disputes ⓘ |
| precedenceAbove | viscount ⓘ |
| precedenceBelow | marquess ⓘ |
| status | historic title ⓘ |
| styleOfAddress | The Right Honourable ⓘ |
| titleType | feudal earldom ⓘ |
| usedIn |
Kingdom of England
ⓘ
Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
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: Earl of March Description of subject: The Earl of March is a historic noble title in the Peerage of England and Scotland, long associated with powerful border lords and claimants to the throne.
Referenced by (23)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.