Eleanor Poynings
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Eleanor Poynings was an English noblewoman of the late 15th century, a member of the influential Poynings family who became Countess of Northumberland through marriage into the Percy dynasty.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Eleanor Poynings canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13340662 — 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: Eleanor Poynings Context triple: [Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, mother, Eleanor Poynings]
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Dorothy Stanbury
Dorothy Stanbury is a central fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "He Knew He Was Right," known for her quiet strength, moral integrity, and complex romantic struggles within Victorian society.
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B.
Elizabeth Stafford, Duchess of Norfolk
Elizabeth Stafford, Duchess of Norfolk, was an English noblewoman of the early 16th century, known for her tumultuous marriage to Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, and as the mother of the poet Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.
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C.
Elizabeth Leyburne, Duchess of Norfolk
Elizabeth Leyburne, Duchess of Norfolk was a 16th-century English noblewoman who became the third wife of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, and was connected to several prominent Catholic families during the reign of Elizabeth I.
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Jane Howard, Duchess of Norfolk
Jane Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, was an English noblewoman of the prominent Howard family who became Duchess through marriage into the powerful ducal line of Norfolk during the Tudor period.
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E.
Bridget Cromwell
Bridget Cromwell was the daughter of English statesman and Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, known for her connections to prominent figures in the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War.
- 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: Eleanor Poynings Target entity description: Eleanor Poynings was an English noblewoman of the late 15th century, a member of the influential Poynings family who became Countess of Northumberland through marriage into the Percy dynasty.
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A.
Dorothy Stanbury
Dorothy Stanbury is a central fictional character in Anthony Trollope’s novel "He Knew He Was Right," known for her quiet strength, moral integrity, and complex romantic struggles within Victorian society.
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B.
Elizabeth Stafford, Duchess of Norfolk
Elizabeth Stafford, Duchess of Norfolk, was an English noblewoman of the early 16th century, known for her tumultuous marriage to Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, and as the mother of the poet Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey.
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C.
Elizabeth Leyburne, Duchess of Norfolk
Elizabeth Leyburne, Duchess of Norfolk was a 16th-century English noblewoman who became the third wife of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, and was connected to several prominent Catholic families during the reign of Elizabeth I.
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D.
Jane Howard, Duchess of Norfolk
Jane Howard, Duchess of Norfolk, was an English noblewoman of the prominent Howard family who became Duchess through marriage into the powerful ducal line of Norfolk during the Tudor period.
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E.
Bridget Cromwell
Bridget Cromwell was the daughter of English statesman and Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell, known for her connections to prominent figures in the Parliamentary cause during the English Civil War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
15th-century English person
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Countess of Northumberland ⓘ English noblewoman ⓘ |
| child |
Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland
NERFINISHED
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Katherine Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Percy, 1st Baron Egremont NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English people ⓘ |
| familyName | Poynings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Robert Poynings, 5th Baron Poynings NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruit | late 15th century ⓘ |
| givenName | Eleanor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Poynings family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Elizabeth Paston NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily |
Percy family
NERFINISHED
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Poynings family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
linking the Poynings and Percy families
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marriage into the Percy dynasty ⓘ |
| partOf | English peerage ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Countess consort of Northumberland ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialStatus | nobility ⓘ |
| spouse | Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Countess of Northumberland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Eleanor Poynings Description of subject: Eleanor Poynings was an English noblewoman of the late 15th century, a member of the influential Poynings family who became Countess of Northumberland through marriage into the Percy dynasty.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.