Thomas de Scales
E649700
Thomas de Scales was a 15th-century English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War, noted for his role in key campaigns in France.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas de Scales canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7234650 — 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: Thomas de Scales Context triple: [Battle of Patay, commander, Thomas de Scales]
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A.
Hugh de Cressingham
Hugh de Cressingham was an English royal official and treasurer in Scotland who became infamous for his role in the Wars of Scottish Independence and his death at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297.
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B.
Robert de Clifford
Robert de Clifford was a prominent medieval English nobleman and soldier, notably the 1st Baron de Clifford and Lord Warden of the Marches under King Edward I.
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C.
Nicholas Vavasour
Nicholas Vavasour was a late 16th- and early 17th-century London stationer and publisher known for issuing plays and other literary works during the English Renaissance.
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D.
Roger Mortimer of Wigmore
Roger Mortimer of Wigmore was a powerful 13th–14th century English Marcher lord and military commander, notable as the father of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, and a key figure in the politics of the Welsh borderlands.
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E.
Hugh de Morville
Hugh de Morville was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and influential Scottish lord known for his role as Constable of Scotland and as one of the knights involved in the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket.
- 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: Thomas de Scales Target entity description: Thomas de Scales was a 15th-century English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War, noted for his role in key campaigns in France.
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A.
Hugh de Cressingham
Hugh de Cressingham was an English royal official and treasurer in Scotland who became infamous for his role in the Wars of Scottish Independence and his death at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297.
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B.
Robert de Clifford
Robert de Clifford was a prominent medieval English nobleman and soldier, notably the 1st Baron de Clifford and Lord Warden of the Marches under King Edward I.
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C.
Nicholas Vavasour
Nicholas Vavasour was a late 16th- and early 17th-century London stationer and publisher known for issuing plays and other literary works during the English Renaissance.
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D.
Roger Mortimer of Wigmore
Roger Mortimer of Wigmore was a powerful 13th–14th century English Marcher lord and military commander, notable as the father of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, and a key figure in the politics of the Welsh borderlands.
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E.
Hugh de Morville
Hugh de Morville was a 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and influential Scottish lord known for his role as Constable of Scotland and as one of the knights involved in the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
15th-century person
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English nobleman ⓘ medieval soldier ⓘ military commander ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 15th century ⓘ |
| conflict | Anglo-French wars ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | English army ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role in English campaigns in France
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service as a commander in France ⓘ |
| occupation |
noble
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soldier ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Hundred Years' War ⓘ |
| partOf | English nobility ⓘ |
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: Thomas de Scales Description of subject: Thomas de Scales was a 15th-century English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War, noted for his role in key campaigns in France.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.