Lord High Almoner
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The Lord High Almoner is a senior clerical officer of the British Royal Household responsible for overseeing the monarch’s almsgiving and certain religious charitable functions.
All labels observed (7)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Lord High Almoner canonical | 5 |
| Hereditary Grand Almoner | 2 |
| Lord High Almoner of England | 1 |
| Lord High Almoner to the Sovereign | 1 |
| Queen's Almoner | 1 |
| Sub-Almoner | 1 |
| royal almoners | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3954274 — 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: Lord High Almoner Context triple: [Ecclesiastical Household, hasOffice, Lord High Almoner]
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A.
Lord High Treasurer
The Lord High Treasurer was a senior English and later British government official historically responsible for overseeing the kingdom’s finances and the royal treasury.
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B.
Usher of the Black Rod
The Usher of the Black Rod is a senior ceremonial officer in the United Kingdom responsible for maintaining order and performing formal duties in the House of Lords and at state occasions.
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C.
Lord High Steward
The Lord High Steward is a senior Great Officer of State in England historically responsible for presiding over the House of Lords during trials of peers and for ceremonial duties at coronations.
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D.
Clerk of the Privy Council
The Clerk of the Privy Council is Canada’s top non-partisan public servant, serving as the head of the federal public service and principal advisor to the Prime Minister on public service matters.
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E.
Dean of Windsor
The Dean of Windsor is the senior cleric responsible for overseeing the spiritual life, administration, and ceremonial functions of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
- 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: Lord High Almoner Target entity description: The Lord High Almoner is a senior clerical officer of the British Royal Household responsible for overseeing the monarch’s almsgiving and certain religious charitable functions.
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A.
Lord High Treasurer
The Lord High Treasurer was a senior English and later British government official historically responsible for overseeing the kingdom’s finances and the royal treasury.
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B.
Usher of the Black Rod
The Usher of the Black Rod is a senior ceremonial officer in the United Kingdom responsible for maintaining order and performing formal duties in the House of Lords and at state occasions.
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C.
Lord High Steward
The Lord High Steward is a senior Great Officer of State in England historically responsible for presiding over the House of Lords during trials of peers and for ceremonial duties at coronations.
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D.
Clerk of the Privy Council
The Clerk of the Privy Council is Canada’s top non-partisan public servant, serving as the head of the federal public service and principal advisor to the Prime Minister on public service matters.
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E.
Dean of Windsor
The Dean of Windsor is the senior cleric responsible for overseeing the spiritual life, administration, and ceremonial functions of St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
ecclesiastical office
ⓘ
office in the British Royal Household ⓘ |
| appliesToJurisdiction | British monarchy ⓘ |
| appointedBy | British monarch ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
British sovereign
ⓘ
linked to:
British monarch
Chapel Royal ⓘ Royal Maundy ⓘ
linked to:
Royal Maundy service
|
| ceremonialFunction |
role in state religious observances
ⓘ
role in the Royal Maundy service ⓘ |
| country | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| domain |
court religion
ⓘ
royal charity ⓘ |
| hasAssociatedOffice |
Hereditary Grand Almoner
ⓘ
linked to:
Lord High Almoner
Sub-Almoner ⓘ |
| hasHistoricalFunction | distribution of alms on behalf of the monarch ⓘ |
| hasRole |
advising the sovereign on certain charitable distributions
ⓘ
overseeing the Maundy alms distribution ⓘ overseeing the monarch’s almsgiving ⓘ participating in royal religious ceremonies ⓘ supervising royal religious charitable functions ⓘ |
| hasScope | religious charitable functions of the Crown ⓘ |
| hierarchicalRank | senior clerical officer of the Royal Household ⓘ |
| inception | medieval period ⓘ |
| isHeldBy | senior bishop of the Church of England ⓘ |
| isStyleOf |
Lord High Almoner of England
ⓘ
linked to:
Lord High Almoner
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| officeHolderTitle |
Lord High Almoner to the Sovereign
ⓘ
linked to:
Lord High Almoner
|
| partOf | Royal Household of the United Kingdom ⓘ |
| religion | Church of England ⓘ |
| seat | United Kingdom ⓘ |
| tradition |
Anglican
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglicanism (broadly)
|
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: Lord High Almoner Description of subject: The Lord High Almoner is a senior clerical officer of the British Royal Household responsible for overseeing the monarch’s almsgiving and certain religious charitable functions.
Referenced by (12)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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