William of Hatfield
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William of Hatfield was a short-lived English prince of the 14th century, one of the younger sons of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William of Hatfield canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T520532 — 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: William of Hatfield Context triple: [Edward III of England, child, William of Hatfield]
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A.
Robert de Eglesfield
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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B.
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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C.
Henry Howard
Henry Howard was an American architect known for designing San Francisco’s landmark Coit Tower.
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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.
Alphonso, Earl of Chester
Alphonso, Earl of Chester was a 13th-century English prince, the second son and heir apparent of King Edward I and Eleanor of Castile, whose early death altered the line of succession to the English throne.
- 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: William of Hatfield Target entity description: William of Hatfield was a short-lived English prince of the 14th century, one of the younger sons of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault.
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A.
Robert de Eglesfield
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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B.
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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C.
Henry Howard
Henry Howard was an American architect known for designing San Francisco’s landmark Coit Tower.
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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.
Alphonso, Earl of Chester
Alphonso, Earl of Chester was a 13th-century English prince, the second son and heir apparent of King Edward I and Eleanor of Castile, whose early death altered the line of succession to the English throne.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
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: William of Hatfield Description of subject: William of Hatfield was a short-lived English prince of the 14th century, one of the younger sons of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.