Cecily of York
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Cecily of York was an English princess of the House of York, daughter of King Edward IV, whose marriages were entangled in the dynastic politics of the Wars of the Roses and early Tudor period.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cecily of York canonical | 25 |
| Cecily of York (died young) | 2 |
| Cecily of York, daughter of King Edward IV | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1618883 — 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: Cecily of York Context triple: [Edward IV of England, child, Cecily of York]
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A.
Cecily Neville, Duchess of York
Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, was a powerful 15th-century English noblewoman and matriarch of the House of York, whose sons included Kings Edward IV and Richard III.
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B.
Anne of York
Anne of York was a 15th-century English princess, daughter of King Edward IV and sister of the ill-fated Edward V, who became a Yorkist noblewoman through her politically significant marriages.
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C.
Elizabeth, Duchess of York
Elizabeth, Duchess of York was the British royal who became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, wife of King George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II.
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D.
Henrietta of York
Henrietta of York was an English princess, daughter of the future King James II of England and his first wife Anne Hyde, who died in infancy.
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E.
Mary of York
Mary of York was an English princess of the House of York, the daughter of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, and sister to the future Edward V.
- 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: Cecily of York Target entity description: Cecily of York was an English princess of the House of York, daughter of King Edward IV, whose marriages were entangled in the dynastic politics of the Wars of the Roses and early Tudor period.
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A.
Cecily Neville, Duchess of York
Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, was a powerful 15th-century English noblewoman and matriarch of the House of York, whose sons included Kings Edward IV and Richard III.
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B.
Anne of York
Anne of York was a 15th-century English princess, daughter of King Edward IV and sister of the ill-fated Edward V, who became a Yorkist noblewoman through her politically significant marriages.
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C.
Elizabeth, Duchess of York
Elizabeth, Duchess of York was the British royal who became Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, wife of King George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II.
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D.
Henrietta of York
Henrietta of York was an English princess, daughter of the future King James II of England and his first wife Anne Hyde, who died in infancy.
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E.
Mary of York
Mary of York was an English princess of the House of York, the daughter of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, and sister to the future Edward V.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Cecily of York Description of subject: Cecily of York was an English princess of the House of York, daughter of King Edward IV, whose marriages were entangled in the dynastic politics of the Wars of the Roses and early Tudor period.
Referenced by (28)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Lady Grey of Groby
linked to: Cecily of York
linked to: Cecily of York
subject linked to:
“Old” St Mary’s Church, Hatfield
subject linked to:
“Old” St Mary’s Church, Hatfield
linked to: Cecily of York