Edmund de Burgh
E308029
Edmund de Burgh was a member of the powerful Anglo-Norman de Burgh family in medieval Ireland, connected by kinship to Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scots.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Edmund de Burgh canonical | 2 |
| William de Burgh | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2827278 — 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: Edmund de Burgh Context triple: [Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scots, relative, Edmund de Burgh]
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A.
Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster
Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster, was a powerful Anglo-Irish nobleman of the late 13th and early 14th centuries who dominated Irish politics and was a key ally of the English crown.
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B.
William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster
William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, was a powerful 14th-century Anglo-Irish nobleman whose murder in 1333 triggered a major collapse of English authority in much of Ireland.
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C.
William de Soulis
William de Soulis was a notorious 14th-century Scottish noble and alleged traitor, historically linked with dark legends and the ownership of Hermitage Castle in the Scottish Borders.
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D.
Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester
Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, was a powerful 13th-century English nobleman and military leader who played a pivotal role in the conflicts between the crown and the barons, particularly during the reign of Henry III and Edward I.
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E.
Hugh, Earl of Ross
Hugh, Earl of Ross was a 14th-century Scottish nobleman and regional magnate who held the earldom of Ross in the northern Highlands.
- 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: Edmund de Burgh Target entity description: Edmund de Burgh was a member of the powerful Anglo-Norman de Burgh family in medieval Ireland, connected by kinship to Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scots.
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A.
Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster
Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster, was a powerful Anglo-Irish nobleman of the late 13th and early 14th centuries who dominated Irish politics and was a key ally of the English crown.
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B.
William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster
William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, was a powerful 14th-century Anglo-Irish nobleman whose murder in 1333 triggered a major collapse of English authority in much of Ireland.
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C.
William de Soulis
William de Soulis was a notorious 14th-century Scottish noble and alleged traitor, historically linked with dark legends and the ownership of Hermitage Castle in the Scottish Borders.
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D.
Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester
Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, was a powerful 13th-century English nobleman and military leader who played a pivotal role in the conflicts between the crown and the barons, particularly during the reign of Henry III and Edward I.
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E.
Hugh, Earl of Ross
Hugh, Earl of Ross was a 14th-century Scottish nobleman and regional magnate who held the earldom of Ross in the northern Highlands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (19)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglo-Norman noble
ⓘ
nobleman ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Anglo-Norman aristocracy in Ireland
ⓘ
medieval Irish politics ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity | Ireland ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Anglo-Norman ⓘ |
| familyName |
de Burgh
ⓘ
linked to:
de Burgh family
|
| languageOfEnvironment |
Anglo-Norman French
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglo-Norman
Irish ⓘ Middle English ⓘ |
| memberOf | de Burgh family ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | de Burgh family ⓘ |
| notableFor | membership in the powerful de Burgh family in medieval Ireland ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | medieval Ireland ⓘ |
| politicalSphere | Anglo-Norman lordship in Ireland ⓘ |
| region | Lordship of Ireland ⓘ |
| relative | Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scots ⓘ |
| socialStatus | high nobility ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Middle Ages ⓘ |
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: Edmund de Burgh Description of subject: Edmund de Burgh was a member of the powerful Anglo-Norman de Burgh family in medieval Ireland, connected by kinship to Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scots.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Edmund de Burgh