Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave
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Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave, was an English nobleman of the late 17th century who inherited the Mulgrave title and sat in the House of Lords during the reigns of Charles II and James II.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave canonical | 2 |
| 2nd Earl of Mulgrave | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3463642 — 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 Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave Context triple: [John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, father, Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave]
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Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester
Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, was a prominent 17th-century English nobleman, Parliamentarian general, and politician who played a key role in the English Civil War.
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B.
2nd Earl of Guilford
The 2nd Earl of Guilford is the British noble title held by Frederick North, the Prime Minister of Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, was a prominent 17th-century English nobleman, soldier, and politician who played a key role as a Parliamentary commander during the English Civil War.
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D.
Walter Montagu
Walter Montagu was a 17th-century English courtier, diplomat, and writer who became a Catholic priest and abbot, known for his political influence and religious conversions during the reigns of Charles I and Charles II.
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E.
John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland
John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland, was a British nobleman, soldier, and politician best known for his leading role in establishing the Royal Academy of Music in London in the early 19th century.
- 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 Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave Target entity description: Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave, was an English nobleman of the late 17th century who inherited the Mulgrave title and sat in the House of Lords during the reigns of Charles II and James II.
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A.
Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester
Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester, was a prominent 17th-century English nobleman, Parliamentarian general, and politician who played a key role in the English Civil War.
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B.
2nd Earl of Guilford
The 2nd Earl of Guilford is the British noble title held by Frederick North, the Prime Minister of Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War.
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C.
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester
Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, was a prominent 17th-century English nobleman, soldier, and politician who played a key role as a Parliamentary commander during the English Civil War.
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D.
Walter Montagu
Walter Montagu was a 17th-century English courtier, diplomat, and writer who became a Catholic priest and abbot, known for his political influence and religious conversions during the reigns of Charles I and Charles II.
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E.
John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland
John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland, was a British nobleman, soldier, and politician best known for his leading role in establishing the Royal Academy of Music in London in the early 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English nobleman
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member of the House of Lords ⓘ peer of England ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| familyName | Sheffield ⓘ |
| floruit | late 17th century ⓘ |
| givenName | Edmund ⓘ |
| languageOfUse | English ⓘ |
| monarchDuringService |
Charles II of England
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James II of England ⓘ |
| nobleRank | earl ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Earl of Mulgrave ⓘ |
| ordinalOfTitle |
2nd Earl of Mulgrave
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linked to:
Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave
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| parliamentaryChamber | House of Lords ⓘ |
| partOf | English peerage ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Earl of Mulgrave
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member of the English House of Lords ⓘ |
| realmServed | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| satInParliamentDuringReignOf |
Charles II of England
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James II of England ⓘ |
| titleInheritedFrom | predecessor Earl of Mulgrave ⓘ |
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 Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave Description of subject: Edmund Sheffield, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave, was an English nobleman of the late 17th century who inherited the Mulgrave title and sat in the House of Lords during the reigns of Charles II and James II.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.