Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk
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Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk, was an 18th-century British peer and politician who served as a Member of Parliament and held various court and governmental offices.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9926207 — 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: Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk Context triple: [Lord Suffolk, refersTo, Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk]
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Henry Howard, 10th Earl of Suffolk
Henry Howard, 10th Earl of Suffolk, was an 18th-century British nobleman and politician who served as Secretary of State for the Northern Department under King George II.
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B.
Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk
Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, was an influential early 17th-century English nobleman, courtier, and statesman who served as Lord Chamberlain and Lord High Treasurer under King James I.
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C.
Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton
Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton was an influential English nobleman, courtier, and statesman under King James I, noted for his political maneuvering, architectural patronage, and involvement in several major Jacobean court scandals.
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D.
James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk
James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk was a prominent early 17th-century English nobleman and courtier who rose to high military and ceremonial authority under the Stuart monarchy.
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E.
Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk
Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, was an early 17th-century English nobleman and courtier who held high offices under King James I and King Charles I.
- 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: Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk Target entity description: Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk, was an 18th-century British peer and politician who served as a Member of Parliament and held various court and governmental offices.
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A.
Henry Howard, 10th Earl of Suffolk
Henry Howard, 10th Earl of Suffolk, was an 18th-century British nobleman and politician who served as Secretary of State for the Northern Department under King George II.
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B.
Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk
Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, was an influential early 17th-century English nobleman, courtier, and statesman who served as Lord Chamberlain and Lord High Treasurer under King James I.
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C.
Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton
Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton was an influential English nobleman, courtier, and statesman under King James I, noted for his political maneuvering, architectural patronage, and involvement in several major Jacobean court scandals.
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D.
James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk
James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk was a prominent early 17th-century English nobleman and courtier who rose to high military and ceremonial authority under the Stuart monarchy.
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E.
Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk
Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, was an early 17th-century English nobleman and courtier who held high offices under King James I and King Charles I.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (31)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British peer
ⓘ
Member of Parliament of Great Britain ⓘ human ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 18th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| familyName | Howard ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
court administration
ⓘ
government ⓘ politics ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalInstitution | Parliament of Great Britain ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Howard family ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Earl of Suffolk ⓘ |
| notableFor |
holding court offices
ⓘ
holding governmental offices ⓘ service as a British peer ⓘ service as a Member of Parliament ⓘ |
| occupation |
nobleman
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politician ⓘ |
| ordinalInOffice |
12th Earl of Suffolk
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linked to:
Earl of Suffolk
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| politicalSystem | British parliamentary system ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
British peer
ⓘ
Member of Parliament ⓘ court officeholder ⓘ government officeholder ⓘ |
| realm | Great Britain ⓘ |
| socialClass | aristocracy ⓘ |
| titleHeld | Earl ⓘ |
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: Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk Description of subject: Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk, was an 18th-century British peer and politician who served as a Member of Parliament and held various court and governmental offices.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.