Mary of Modena
E44254
Mary of Modena was an Italian-born Roman Catholic queen consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland, best known as the second wife of King James II and the mother of the deposed Jacobite claimant James Francis Edward Stuart.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Mary of Modena canonical | 23 |
| Mary of Modena (as queen consort of Scotland) | 1 |
| Mary of Modena, Duchess of York | 1 |
| Queen Mary of Modena | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T291908 — 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: Mary of Modena Context triple: [James II of England, spouse, Mary of Modena]
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Henrietta Maria of France
Henrietta Maria of France was a French princess and Roman Catholic queen consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland as the wife of King Charles I, whose marriage had significant political and religious implications in 17th-century Britain.
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B.
Mary II of England
Mary II of England was a late 17th-century queen who ruled jointly with her husband William III after the Glorious Revolution, helping to establish constitutional monarchy in Britain.
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Duchess of Monmouth
The Duchess of Monmouth was an English noblewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, known for her high social standing and patronage of the arts and literature.
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Henrietta Maria Yarborough
Henrietta Maria Yarborough was the wife of English architect and playwright Sir John Vanbrugh, known primarily through her marriage into this prominent cultural figure’s life.
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E.
Anne Hyde
Anne Hyde was the first wife of the future King James II of England and the mother of two queens, Mary II and Anne.
- 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: Mary of Modena Target entity description: Mary of Modena was an Italian-born Roman Catholic queen consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland, best known as the second wife of King James II and the mother of the deposed Jacobite claimant James Francis Edward Stuart.
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A.
Henrietta Maria of France
Henrietta Maria of France was a French princess and Roman Catholic queen consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland as the wife of King Charles I, whose marriage had significant political and religious implications in 17th-century Britain.
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B.
Mary II of England
Mary II of England was a late 17th-century queen who ruled jointly with her husband William III after the Glorious Revolution, helping to establish constitutional monarchy in Britain.
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C.
Duchess of Monmouth
The Duchess of Monmouth was an English noblewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, known for her high social standing and patronage of the arts and literature.
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D.
Henrietta Maria Yarborough
Henrietta Maria Yarborough was the wife of English architect and playwright Sir John Vanbrugh, known primarily through her marriage into this prominent cultural figure’s life.
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E.
Anne Hyde
Anne Hyde was the first wife of the future King James II of England and the mother of two queens, Mary II and Anne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Mary of Modena Description of subject: Mary of Modena was an Italian-born Roman Catholic queen consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland, best known as the second wife of King James II and the mother of the deposed Jacobite claimant James Francis Edward Stuart.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Mary of Modena
linked to: Mary of Modena
subject linked to:
Catherine of Braganza (as queen consort of Scotland)
linked to: Mary of Modena
subject linked to:
Martinozzi family