John de Vaux
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John de Vaux was a 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and royal official in Scotland and England, noted for his military service and landholdings, including the barony associated with Dirleton Castle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John de Vaux canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7469026 — 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: John de Vaux Context triple: [Dirleton Castle, builtFor, John de Vaux]
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A.
Roland de Vaux
Roland de Vaux was a French Dominican priest, biblical scholar, and archaeologist best known for his leadership at the École Biblique in Jerusalem and his influential work on the Dead Sea Scrolls and ancient Israelite history.
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B.
Gilles Ste-Croix
Gilles Ste-Croix is a Canadian entrepreneur and creative visionary best known as a co-founder and key artistic force behind the contemporary circus company Cirque du Soleil.
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C.
Peter Lombard
Peter Lombard was a 12th-century scholastic theologian and bishop of Paris best known for his influential theological textbook, the "Sentences," which became a standard work in medieval university education.
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D.
René Guissart
René Guissart was a French cinematographer active in the early 20th century, known for his work on major silent and early sound films in both Europe and Hollywood.
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E.
Robert Fraisse
Robert Fraisse is a French cinematographer known for his visually striking work on international films, including major war dramas and action features.
- 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: John de Vaux Target entity description: John de Vaux was a 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and royal official in Scotland and England, noted for his military service and landholdings, including the barony associated with Dirleton Castle.
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A.
Roland de Vaux
Roland de Vaux was a French Dominican priest, biblical scholar, and archaeologist best known for his leadership at the École Biblique in Jerusalem and his influential work on the Dead Sea Scrolls and ancient Israelite history.
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B.
Gilles Ste-Croix
Gilles Ste-Croix is a Canadian entrepreneur and creative visionary best known as a co-founder and key artistic force behind the contemporary circus company Cirque du Soleil.
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C.
Peter Lombard
Peter Lombard was a 12th-century scholastic theologian and bishop of Paris best known for his influential theological textbook, the "Sentences," which became a standard work in medieval university education.
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D.
René Guissart
René Guissart was a French cinematographer active in the early 20th century, known for his work on major silent and early sound films in both Europe and Hollywood.
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E.
Robert Fraisse
Robert Fraisse is a French cinematographer known for his visually striking work on international films, including major war dramas and action features.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
13th-century nobleman
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Anglo-Norman nobleman ⓘ medieval soldier ⓘ royal official ⓘ |
| activeInCentury | 13th century ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Dirleton Castle ⓘ |
| countryOfActivity |
Kingdom of England
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Kingdom of Scotland ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Anglo-Norman ⓘ |
| feudalStatus | tenant-in-chief ⓘ |
| governedTerritory | lands attached to Dirleton barony ⓘ |
| hasTitle | baron ⓘ |
| heldBarony | barony of Dirleton ⓘ |
| landholderIn |
England
ⓘ
Scotland ⓘ |
| languageOfEnvironment |
Anglo-Norman French
ⓘ
linked to:
Anglo-Norman
Latin ⓘ |
| militaryServiceIn |
England
ⓘ
Scotland ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | de Vaux family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
landholdings
ⓘ
military service ⓘ service to the crown in England ⓘ service to the crown in Scotland ⓘ |
| occupation |
nobleman
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royal official ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| residence | Dirleton Castle ⓘ |
| socialClass | feudal baronage ⓘ |
| timePeriod | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
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: John de Vaux Description of subject: John de Vaux was a 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and royal official in Scotland and England, noted for his military service and landholdings, including the barony associated with Dirleton Castle.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.