Sybilla of Salisbury
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Sybilla of Salisbury was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman best known as the mother of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, one of medieval England’s most celebrated knights and statesmen.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Sybilla of Salisbury canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4054584 — 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: Sybilla of Salisbury Context triple: [William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, mother, Sybilla of Salisbury]
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A.
Blanche of the Tower
Blanche of the Tower was a short-lived medieval English princess, the daughter of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault.
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B.
Sibylla of Burgundy
Sibylla of Burgundy was a 12th-century noblewoman who became Queen of Sicily through her marriage to King Roger II.
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C.
Maud Bigod
Maud Bigod was a 12th-century English noblewoman of the powerful Bigod family, notable as the mother of William d’Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel.
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D.
Eleanor de Bohun
Eleanor de Bohun was a 14th-century English noblewoman, granddaughter of King Edward I, who became Countess of Ormond and played a notable role in the high aristocracy of medieval England.
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E.
Maud of Wales
Maud of Wales was a British princess who became Queen of Norway as the wife of King Haakon VII.
- 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: Sybilla of Salisbury Target entity description: Sybilla of Salisbury was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman best known as the mother of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, one of medieval England’s most celebrated knights and statesmen.
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A.
Blanche of the Tower
Blanche of the Tower was a short-lived medieval English princess, the daughter of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault.
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B.
Sibylla of Burgundy
Sibylla of Burgundy was a 12th-century noblewoman who became Queen of Sicily through her marriage to King Roger II.
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C.
Maud Bigod
Maud Bigod was a 12th-century English noblewoman of the powerful Bigod family, notable as the mother of William d’Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel.
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D.
Eleanor de Bohun
Eleanor de Bohun was a 14th-century English noblewoman, granddaughter of King Edward I, who became Countess of Ormond and played a notable role in the high aristocracy of medieval England.
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E.
Maud of Wales
Maud of Wales was a British princess who became Queen of Norway as the wife of King Haakon VII.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglo-Norman noble
ⓘ
noblewoman ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| era | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
English
ⓘ
Norman ⓘ |
| familyName | of Salisbury ⓘ |
| hasChild |
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke
ⓘ
other children of John Marshal (the elder) ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
Anglo-Norman French
ⓘ
Latin ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| motherOf | William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke ⓘ |
| nobleFamily |
the Marshal family
ⓘ
surface form:
Marshal family
Salisbury family ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the mother of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke ⓘ |
| partOf |
Anglo-Normans
ⓘ
surface form:
Anglo-Norman aristocracy
|
| placeOfActivity | England ⓘ |
| positionHeld | lady of an Anglo-Norman noble household ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholicism
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| residence | England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialClass | high nobility ⓘ |
| spouse |
John Marshal
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surface form:
John Marshal (the elder)
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| timePeriod | 12th century ⓘ |
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: Sybilla of Salisbury Description of subject: Sybilla of Salisbury was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman best known as the mother of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, one of medieval England’s most celebrated knights and statesmen.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke