Robert de Eglesfield
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Robert de Eglesfield was a 14th-century English cleric and royal chaplain best known as the founder of The Queen’s College, Oxford.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Robert de Eglesfield canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T353847 — 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: Robert de Eglesfield Context triple: [The Queen's College, Oxford, foundedBy, Robert de Eglesfield]
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A.
Roger de Montgomery
Roger de Montgomery was an 11th-century Norman nobleman and close ally of William the Conqueror who became Earl of Shrewsbury and a major landholder in post-Conquest England.
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B.
Earl Marshal
The Earl Marshal is a senior hereditary officer of state in England responsible for overseeing heraldry, state ceremonies, and the College of Arms.
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C.
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, was an English nobleman and Lord High Admiral who commanded the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588.
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D.
Richard Chancellor
Richard Chancellor was a 16th-century English navigator and explorer who pioneered the sea route to Russia and helped establish early Anglo-Russian trade relations.
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E.
William d’Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel
William d’Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, was a prominent 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and royal courtier who rose to great influence under King Henry I and King Stephen.
- 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: Robert de Eglesfield Target entity description: Robert de Eglesfield was a 14th-century English cleric and royal chaplain best known as the founder of The Queen’s College, Oxford.
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A.
Roger de Montgomery
Roger de Montgomery was an 11th-century Norman nobleman and close ally of William the Conqueror who became Earl of Shrewsbury and a major landholder in post-Conquest England.
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B.
Earl Marshal
The Earl Marshal is a senior hereditary officer of state in England responsible for overseeing heraldry, state ceremonies, and the College of Arms.
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C.
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, was an English nobleman and Lord High Admiral who commanded the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588.
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D.
Richard Chancellor
Richard Chancellor was a 16th-century English navigator and explorer who pioneered the sea route to Russia and helped establish early Anglo-Russian trade relations.
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E.
William d’Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel
William d’Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, was a prominent 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and royal courtier who rose to great influence under King Henry I and King Stephen.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English cleric
ⓘ
college founder ⓘ founder ⓘ human ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
English royal court
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglo-Norman court
The Queen’s College, Oxford ⓘ
linked to:
The Queen's College, Oxford
|
| centuryOfActivity | 14th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Oxford ⓘ |
| era | Late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
pastoral care
ⓘ
theology ⓘ |
| founded |
The Queen’s College, Oxford
ⓘ
linked to:
The Queen's College, Oxford
|
| gender | male ⓘ |
| hasHonorificTitle | Master ⓘ |
| knownFor | founding The Queen’s College, Oxford ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Middle English ⓘ |
| notableWork | founding of The Queen’s College, Oxford ⓘ |
| occupation |
cleric
ⓘ
college founder ⓘ royal chaplain ⓘ |
| partOf | English clergy ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
Kingdom of England
ⓘ
Oxford ⓘ |
| positionHeld | royal chaplain ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
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: Robert de Eglesfield Description of subject: Robert de Eglesfield was a 14th-century English cleric and royal chaplain best known as the founder of The Queen’s College, Oxford.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.