John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford
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John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, was a prominent English prince and military commander of the early 15th century, noted for his role in the Hundred Years' War and his regency of France during the minority of Henry VI.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford | 4 |
| John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford canonical | 3 |
| John of Lancaster | 1 |
| John, Duke of Bedford | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1147803 — 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 of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford Context triple: [Earl of Kendal, hasTitleHolder, John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford]
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A.
Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence
Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, was a 14th-century English prince and nobleman whose lineage played a key role in the later Wars of the Roses through the Yorkist claim to the throne.
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B.
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, was a prominent 14th-century English prince and political figure who played a leading role in opposition to the government of his nephew, King Richard II.
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C.
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, was a 14th-century English prince and nobleman who founded the House of York, a key dynasty in the Wars of the Roses.
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D.
Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, was a powerful 14th-century English nobleman who led the rebellion against King Edward II and effectively ruled England during the early reign of Edward III before being overthrown and executed.
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E.
Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter
Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, was an early 15th-century English nobleman, military commander, and half-uncle of King Henry V who played a prominent role in the Hundred Years’ War and royal government.
- 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: John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford Target entity description: John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, was a prominent English prince and military commander of the early 15th century, noted for his role in the Hundred Years' War and his regency of France during the minority of Henry VI.
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A.
Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence
Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, was a 14th-century English prince and nobleman whose lineage played a key role in the later Wars of the Roses through the Yorkist claim to the throne.
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B.
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, was a prominent 14th-century English prince and political figure who played a leading role in opposition to the government of his nephew, King Richard II.
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C.
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, was a 14th-century English prince and nobleman who founded the House of York, a key dynasty in the Wars of the Roses.
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D.
Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, was a powerful 14th-century English nobleman who led the rebellion against King Edward II and effectively ruled England during the early reign of Edward III before being overthrown and executed.
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E.
Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter
Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, was an early 15th-century English nobleman, military commander, and half-uncle of King Henry V who played a prominent role in the Hundred Years’ War and royal government.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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 of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford Description of subject: John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, was a prominent English prince and military commander of the early 15th century, noted for his role in the Hundred Years' War and his regency of France during the minority of Henry VI.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Earl of Kendal (1414 creation)
subject surface form:
Henry IV of England
John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford
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this entity surface form:
John of Lancaster
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John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford
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John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford
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John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford
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John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford
this entity surface form:
John, Duke of Bedford