William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster
E304615
William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, was a powerful 14th-century Anglo-Irish nobleman whose murder in 1333 triggered a major collapse of English authority in much of Ireland.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster | 3 |
| William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster canonical | 1 |
| her father William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2827277 — 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: William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster Context triple: [Elizabeth de Burgh, Queen of Scots, relative, William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster]
-
A.
Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster
Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster, was a powerful Anglo-Irish nobleman of the late 13th and early 14th centuries who dominated Irish politics and was a key ally of the English crown.
-
B.
Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell
Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, was an Irish Catholic nobleman and soldier who served as James II’s chief representative in Ireland and played a leading role in the events surrounding the Williamite War.
-
C.
Earl of Kildare
The Earl of Kildare is a historic Irish noble title most famously associated with the powerful FitzGerald family, who were major political figures in Ireland from the late medieval period onward.
-
D.
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, was a powerful and wealthy English colonial administrator and landowner in early 17th-century Ireland, noted for his extensive estates and political influence.
-
E.
Earl of Ormond
The Earl of Ormond is a historic Irish peerage title long associated with the powerful Butler family, prominent in Anglo-Irish politics and society from the late Middle Ages onward.
- 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: William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster Target entity description: William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, was a powerful 14th-century Anglo-Irish nobleman whose murder in 1333 triggered a major collapse of English authority in much of Ireland.
-
A.
Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster
Richard Óg de Burgh, 2nd Earl of Ulster, was a powerful Anglo-Irish nobleman of the late 13th and early 14th centuries who dominated Irish politics and was a key ally of the English crown.
-
B.
Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell
Richard Talbot, 1st Earl of Tyrconnell, was an Irish Catholic nobleman and soldier who served as James II’s chief representative in Ireland and played a leading role in the events surrounding the Williamite War.
-
C.
Earl of Kildare
The Earl of Kildare is a historic Irish noble title most famously associated with the powerful FitzGerald family, who were major political figures in Ireland from the late medieval period onward.
-
D.
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork, was a powerful and wealthy English colonial administrator and landowner in early 17th-century Ireland, noted for his extensive estates and political influence.
-
E.
Earl of Ormond
The Earl of Ormond is a historic Irish peerage title long associated with the powerful Butler family, prominent in Anglo-Irish politics and society from the late Middle Ages onward.
- 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: William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster Description of subject: William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster, was a powerful 14th-century Anglo-Irish nobleman whose murder in 1333 triggered a major collapse of English authority in much of Ireland.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster
this entity surface form:
William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster
this entity surface form:
William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster
Elizabeth de Burgh, 4th Countess of Ulster
→
titleInheritedFrom
→
William de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster
ⓘ
this entity surface form:
her father William Donn de Burgh, 3rd Earl of Ulster