Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York
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Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York was the younger son of King Edward IV of England and one of the two "Princes in the Tower" whose mysterious disappearance has long intrigued historians.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York canonical | 16 |
| Richard of Shrewsbury | 1 |
| Richard, Duke of York | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1555901 — 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: Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York Context triple: [Edward V of England, sibling, Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York]
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A.
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York was a key 15th-century English noble and claimant to the throne whose dynastic struggle with the Lancastrians helped ignite the Wars of the Roses and paved the way for the Yorkist kings.
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B.
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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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.
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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E.
John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford
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.
- 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: Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York Target entity description: Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York was the younger son of King Edward IV of England and one of the two "Princes in the Tower" whose mysterious disappearance has long intrigued historians.
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A.
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York was a key 15th-century English noble and claimant to the throne whose dynastic struggle with the Lancastrians helped ignite the Wars of the Roses and paved the way for the Yorkist kings.
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B.
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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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.
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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E.
John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford
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.
- 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: Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York Description of subject: Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York was the younger son of King Edward IV of England and one of the two "Princes in the Tower" whose mysterious disappearance has long intrigued historians.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Richard, Duke of York
Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York
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Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York
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this entity surface form:
Richard of Shrewsbury