Ursula St Barbe
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Ursula St Barbe was the wife of Elizabethan spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and a member of the English gentry in the 16th century.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ursula St Barbe canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13517696 — 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: Ursula St Barbe Context triple: [Sir Francis Walsingham, spouse, Ursula St Barbe]
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A.
Ursula Yale
Ursula Yale was a daughter of Elihu Yale, the wealthy British-American merchant and philanthropist after whom Yale University is named.
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B.
Ursula Blackwell
Ursula Blackwell was a wealthy British heiress and art patron best known as the wife and collaborator of modernist architect Ernő Goldfinger.
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C.
Ursula Blackburne
Ursula Blackburne was the wife of British colonial administrator Sir Kenneth Blackburne, noted primarily in historical records for her role as his spouse and partner during his overseas postings.
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D.
Ursula Mamlok
Ursula Mamlok was a German-American composer known for her refined, modernist chamber and orchestral works that often employed serial techniques with expressive lyricism.
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E.
Ursula Wood
Ursula Wood was an English poet and writer best known as the second wife and later biographer of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
- 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: Ursula St Barbe Target entity description: Ursula St Barbe was the wife of Elizabethan spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and a member of the English gentry in the 16th century.
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A.
Ursula Yale
Ursula Yale was a daughter of Elihu Yale, the wealthy British-American merchant and philanthropist after whom Yale University is named.
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B.
Ursula Blackwell
Ursula Blackwell was a wealthy British heiress and art patron best known as the wife and collaborator of modernist architect Ernő Goldfinger.
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C.
Ursula Blackburne
Ursula Blackburne was the wife of British colonial administrator Sir Kenneth Blackburne, noted primarily in historical records for her role as his spouse and partner during his overseas postings.
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D.
Ursula Mamlok
Ursula Mamlok was a German-American composer known for her refined, modernist chamber and orchestral works that often employed serial techniques with expressive lyricism.
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E.
Ursula Wood
Ursula Wood was an English poet and writer best known as the second wife and later biographer of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Elizabethan spymaster
ⓘ
member of the English gentry ⓘ person ⓘ |
| country of citizenship |
Kingdom of England
ⓘ
Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| notable relative by marriage | Sir Francis Walsingham ⓘ |
| occupation | spymaster ⓘ |
| position held | wife of Sir Francis Walsingham ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| sex or gender | female ⓘ |
| social class | gentry ⓘ |
| spouse |
Francis Walsingham
ⓘ
linked to:
Sir Francis Walsingham
Ursula St Barbe ⓘ |
| time period |
16th century
ⓘ
Elizabethan era ⓘ
linked to:
English Renaissance
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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: Ursula St Barbe Description of subject: Ursula St Barbe was the wife of Elizabethan spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and a member of the English gentry in the 16th century.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.