1st Earl of Northampton
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The 1st Earl of Northampton was an English noble title in the Peerage of England, notably held in the 14th century by William de Bohun, a prominent military commander and close companion of King Edward III.
All labels observed (1)
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| 1st Earl of Northampton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12647109 — 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: 1st Earl of Northampton Context triple: [William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton, title, 1st Earl of Northampton]
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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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B.
Earl of Northampton
The Earl of Northampton is a historic English noble title in the Peerage of England, long associated with prominent aristocratic families and political influence.
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C.
James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton
James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton, was a 17th-century English nobleman and politician who served as a Royalist military commander during the English Civil War.
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D.
1st Marquess of Northampton
The 1st Marquess of Northampton was an English nobleman of the Tudor period, notably the brother of Queen Catherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII.
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E.
Roger Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk
Roger Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk, was a prominent 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and royal official who became one of the most powerful magnates in East Anglia and a key figure in the early English earldom of Norfolk.
- 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: 1st Earl of Northampton Target entity description: The 1st Earl of Northampton was an English noble title in the Peerage of England, notably held in the 14th century by William de Bohun, a prominent military commander and close companion of King Edward III.
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A.
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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B.
Earl of Northampton
The Earl of Northampton is a historic English noble title in the Peerage of England, long associated with prominent aristocratic families and political influence.
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C.
James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton
James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton, was a 17th-century English nobleman and politician who served as a Royalist military commander during the English Civil War.
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D.
1st Marquess of Northampton
The 1st Marquess of Northampton was an English nobleman of the Tudor period, notably the brother of Queen Catherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII.
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E.
Roger Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk
Roger Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk, was a prominent 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and royal official who became one of the most powerful magnates in East Anglia and a key figure in the early English earldom of Norfolk.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Earl in the Peerage of England
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English nobleman ⓘ medieval military commander ⓘ |
| allegiance | Kingdom of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
English nobility
ⓘ
Hundred Years' War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closeCompanionOf | Edward III of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| governedUnder | feudal system ⓘ |
| heldTitle | 1st Earl of Northampton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldTitleIn | 14th century ⓘ |
| honour | Earl of Northampton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfEnvironment | Middle English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRole | commander ⓘ |
| monarchServed | Edward III of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | de Bohun family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleRank | Earl ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Earl of Northampton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
loyalty to Edward III of England
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military service in the Hundred Years' War ⓘ |
| peerage | Peerage of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalSystem | medieval English monarchy ⓘ |
| rankWithinPeerage |
above viscount and baron
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below marquess and duke ⓘ |
| region | England ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| style | The Right Honourable ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 14th century ⓘ |
| titleCreatedFor | William de Bohun NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleType | hereditary peerage ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: 1st Earl of Northampton Description of subject: The 1st Earl of Northampton was an English noble title in the Peerage of England, notably held in the 14th century by William de Bohun, a prominent military commander and close companion of King Edward III.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.