Margaret de Burgh
E1002397
Margaret de Burgh was a noblewoman of the influential Anglo-Norman de Burgh family in medieval Ireland and England, noted as an ancestor of the Earls of Ulster.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Margaret de Burgh canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12746451 — 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: Margaret de Burgh Context triple: [William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, grandmother, Margaret de Burgh]
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Margaret de Burgh
Margaret de Burgh was a 13th–14th century Anglo-Norman noblewoman best known as the mother of Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scots and wife of Robert the Bruce.
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B.
Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster
Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster, was a powerful Anglo-Irish noblewoman and heiress of vast estates whose marriage into the English royal family strengthened Plantagenet influence in Ireland.
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C.
Isabel de Clare
Isabel de Clare was a 13th-century Anglo-Norman noblewoman and heiress from the powerful de Clare family, notable as the mother of Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale, an ancestor of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
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D.
Eleanor de Clare
Eleanor de Clare was a prominent 14th-century English noblewoman and heiress, granddaughter of King Edward I, whose marriages and estates made her a significant figure in the politics of Edward II’s reign.
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Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster
Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster was a 14th-century English noblewoman and heiress whose marriage to Edmund Mortimer helped transmit a strong claim to the English throne through the Mortimer line.
- 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: Margaret de Burgh Target entity description: Margaret de Burgh was a noblewoman of the influential Anglo-Norman de Burgh family in medieval Ireland and England, noted as an ancestor of the Earls of Ulster.
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A.
Margaret de Burgh
Margaret de Burgh was a 13th–14th century Anglo-Norman noblewoman best known as the mother of Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scots and wife of Robert the Bruce.
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B.
Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster
Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster, was a powerful Anglo-Irish noblewoman and heiress of vast estates whose marriage into the English royal family strengthened Plantagenet influence in Ireland.
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C.
Isabel de Clare
Isabel de Clare was a 13th-century Anglo-Norman noblewoman and heiress from the powerful de Clare family, notable as the mother of Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale, an ancestor of Robert the Bruce, King of Scots.
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D.
Eleanor de Clare
Eleanor de Clare was a prominent 14th-century English noblewoman and heiress, granddaughter of King Edward I, whose marriages and estates made her a significant figure in the politics of Edward II’s reign.
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E.
Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster
Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster was a 14th-century English noblewoman and heiress whose marriage to Edmund Mortimer helped transmit a strong claim to the English throne through the Mortimer line.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (21)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglo-Norman noble
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medieval noblewoman ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Anglo-Norman settlement in Ireland
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Ulster ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of England
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Lordship of Ireland ⓘ |
| ethnicity | Anglo-Norman ⓘ |
| familyName |
de Burgh
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linked to:
de Burgh family
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| gender | female ⓘ |
| hasDescendant |
Earls of Ulster
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linked to:
Earls of Ulster (de Burgh)
|
| languageOfUse |
Anglo-Norman French
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linked to:
Anglo-Norman
Latin ⓘ |
| memberOf | de Burgh family ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | de Burgh family ⓘ |
| notableFor | being an ancestor of the Earls of Ulster ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity |
England
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Ireland ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
noblewoman in medieval England
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noblewoman in medieval Ireland ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 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: Margaret de Burgh Description of subject: Margaret de Burgh was a noblewoman of the influential Anglo-Norman de Burgh family in medieval Ireland and England, noted as an ancestor of the Earls of Ulster.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.