Percy family
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The Percy family is a historic English noble lineage, traditionally holding the title of Duke of Northumberland and playing a prominent role in British medieval and early modern politics.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Percy family canonical | 65 |
| Houses of the Percy family | 1 |
| Percy family of Northumberland | 1 |
| Percy family titles | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2548280 — 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: Percy family Context triple: [Alnwick Castle grounds, ownedBy, Percy family]
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A.
Fitzpatrick dynasty
The Fitzpatrick dynasty is an Irish noble lineage of Gaelic origin that historically ruled the kingdom of Ossory and later became prominent landowners and peers under English and British rule.
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B.
Clive family
The Clive family is a prominent British aristocratic lineage best known for producing influential political and colonial figures, including Robert Clive, key to establishing British rule in India.
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C.
Hall family
The Hall family is a familial group or lineage to which Sylvia Hall belongs.
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D.
Godfrey family
The Godfrey family was a prominent colonial-era family associated with the Goose Creek area in the former Province of South Carolina.
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E.
Liddell family
The Liddell family is a British noble lineage historically associated with the peerage and landed gentry.
- 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: Percy family Target entity description: The Percy family is a historic English noble lineage, traditionally holding the title of Duke of Northumberland and playing a prominent role in British medieval and early modern politics.
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A.
Fitzpatrick dynasty
The Fitzpatrick dynasty is an Irish noble lineage of Gaelic origin that historically ruled the kingdom of Ossory and later became prominent landowners and peers under English and British rule.
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B.
Clive family
The Clive family is a prominent British aristocratic lineage best known for producing influential political and colonial figures, including Robert Clive, key to establishing British rule in India.
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C.
Hall family
The Hall family is a familial group or lineage to which Sylvia Hall belongs.
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D.
Godfrey family
The Godfrey family was a prominent colonial-era family associated with the Goose Creek area in the former Province of South Carolina.
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E.
Liddell family
The Liddell family is a British noble lineage historically associated with the peerage and landed gentry.
- 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: Percy family Description of subject: The Percy family is a historic English noble lineage, traditionally holding the title of Duke of Northumberland and playing a prominent role in British medieval and early modern politics.
Referenced by (68)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Algernon Seymour, 7th Duke of Somerset (as holder of Percy estates)
subject linked to:
Baron Prudhoe
linked to: Percy family
linked to: Percy family
subject linked to:
4th Earl of Northumberland