Edward II of England
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Edward II of England was a 14th-century King of England whose troubled reign was marked by military failures, baronial conflicts, and his eventual deposition and mysterious death.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Edward II of England canonical | 102 |
| Edward II | 9 |
| King Edward II of England | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T258511 — 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: Edward II of England Context triple: [Edward, notableBearer, Edward II of England]
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Edward III of England
Edward III of England was a 14th-century English king whose long reign was marked by military campaigns in the Hundred Years’ War, the strengthening of royal authority, and a flourishing of chivalric culture.
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B.
Edward I of England
Edward I of England was a 13th–14th century English king known for his military campaigns in Wales and Scotland, legal and administrative reforms, and consolidation of royal authority.
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C.
Henry III of England
Henry III of England was a 13th-century Plantagenet king whose long and often turbulent reign was marked by baronial conflicts, administrative reforms, and the reaffirmation of royal obligations to the nobility and Church.
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D.
King John of England
King John of England was the early 13th-century English monarch whose reign was marked by military failures, heavy taxation, and baronial rebellion that led to the sealing of Magna Carta in 1215.
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E.
Edward
Edward is a masculine given name of English origin, historically associated with kings of England and notable figures such as U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
- 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: Edward II of England Target entity description: Edward II of England was a 14th-century King of England whose troubled reign was marked by military failures, baronial conflicts, and his eventual deposition and mysterious death.
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A.
Edward III of England
Edward III of England was a 14th-century English king whose long reign was marked by military campaigns in the Hundred Years’ War, the strengthening of royal authority, and a flourishing of chivalric culture.
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B.
Edward I of England
Edward I of England was a 13th–14th century English king known for his military campaigns in Wales and Scotland, legal and administrative reforms, and consolidation of royal authority.
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C.
Henry III of England
Henry III of England was a 13th-century Plantagenet king whose long and often turbulent reign was marked by baronial conflicts, administrative reforms, and the reaffirmation of royal obligations to the nobility and Church.
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D.
King John of England
King John of England was the early 13th-century English monarch whose reign was marked by military failures, heavy taxation, and baronial rebellion that led to the sealing of Magna Carta in 1215.
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E.
Edward
Edward is a masculine given name of English origin, historically associated with kings of England and notable figures such as U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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: Edward II of England Description of subject: Edward II of England was a 14th-century King of England whose troubled reign was marked by military failures, baronial conflicts, and his eventual deposition and mysterious death.
Referenced by (116)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Edward II
subject surface form:
Joan of the Tower
subject surface form:
Joan of the Tower
subject surface form:
Edward of Caernarfon
this entity surface form:
Edward II
subject surface form:
Edward of Caernarfon
this entity surface form:
Edward II