John
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John de la Pole was a 15th-century English nobleman and Yorkist claimant to the English throne during the Wars of the Roses.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12754376 — 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 Context triple: [John de la Pole, givenName, John]
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John
John Vassall Jr. was a British civil servant who became notorious as a Soviet spy during the Cold War.
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John
John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
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John
John is the given name of John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, a British aristocrat and 10th Duke of Marlborough.
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John
John is the middle name of Samuel John Mills, an American Congregationalist minister known for his role in early 19th-century missionary movements.
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John
John Ross is a personal name shared by various notable individuals across history, including leaders, politicians, and public figures.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Target entity description: John de la Pole was a 15th-century English nobleman and Yorkist claimant to the English throne during the Wars of the Roses.
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John
John, Prince of Lancaster, was a 15th-century English royal and military commander, best known for his role in the Hundred Years' War and as the younger son of King Henry IV.
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John
John is the given name of Sir John Woodville, a 15th-century English nobleman associated with the influential Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses.
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John
John the Fearless was a powerful early 15th-century Duke of Burgundy known for his aggressive political maneuvers and pivotal role in the French civil conflicts of the Hundred Years’ War.
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John
John V, Duke of Brittany, was a 15th-century French nobleman who ruled the Duchy of Brittany and played a significant role in the politics of the Hundred Years' War.
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John
John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, was an English nobleman and military commander, the eldest of John of Gaunt’s legitimized Beaufort children and a prominent figure in the early Lancastrian dynasty.
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Statements (36)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
15th-century person
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English nobleman ⓘ Yorkist claimant to the English throne ⓘ |
| allegiance | House of York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfDeath | 15th century ⓘ |
| claimedTitle | King of England ⓘ |
| conflict |
Battle of Stoke Field
NERFINISHED
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Yorkist rebellion of 1487 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| era | Late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| familyName | de la Pole NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | John NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfUse | Middle English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in battle ⓘ |
| maternalGrandfather | Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maternalGrandmother | Anne de Mortimer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | de la Pole family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Earl of Lincoln NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being designated heir by Richard III (disputed by historians)
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leading Yorkist forces at the Battle of Stoke Field ⓘ |
| opponent | Henry VII of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Wars of the Roses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| paternalGrandfather | William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| paternalGrandmother | Alice Chaucer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | near East Stoke, Nottinghamshire ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Lord Lieutenant of Ireland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| royalHouse | House of York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk
NERFINISHED
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William de la Pole (Yorkist exile) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supportedClaimOf | Lambert Simnel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| uncle |
Edward IV of England
NERFINISHED
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Richard III of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| yearOfDeath | 1487 ⓘ |
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 Description of subject: John de la Pole was a 15th-century English nobleman and Yorkist claimant to the English throne during the Wars of the Roses.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.