John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk
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John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent 15th-century English nobleman, soldier, and staunch supporter of King Richard III who became the first Howard to hold the dukedom of Norfolk.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk canonical | 7 |
| 1st Duke of Norfolk | 1 |
| Duke of Norfolk | 1 |
| John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk (3rd creation) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4152307 — 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: John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk Context triple: [House of Howard, notableMember, John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk]
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Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, was a powerful English nobleman and statesman of the Tudor period, prominent as a military commander and influential courtier under Henry VIII.
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Duke of Norfolk
The Duke of Norfolk is the premier duke in the peerage of England, traditionally serving as Earl Marshal and holding chief responsibility for state ceremonial occasions.
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Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk
Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, was a younger son of King Edward I of England who became a prominent nobleman and ancestor of later English royal lines in the early 14th century.
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Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk
Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, was an influential early 17th-century English nobleman, courtier, and statesman who served as Lord Chamberlain and Lord High Treasurer under King James I.
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John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick
John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick, was an English nobleman and soldier of the mid-16th century, known as the son and heir of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, and for his role in the political and military affairs of Edward VI’s reign.
- 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: John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk Target entity description: John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent 15th-century English nobleman, soldier, and staunch supporter of King Richard III who became the first Howard to hold the dukedom of Norfolk.
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A.
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, was a powerful English nobleman and statesman of the Tudor period, prominent as a military commander and influential courtier under Henry VIII.
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B.
Duke of Norfolk
The Duke of Norfolk is the premier duke in the peerage of England, traditionally serving as Earl Marshal and holding chief responsibility for state ceremonial occasions.
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Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk
Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, was a younger son of King Edward I of England who became a prominent nobleman and ancestor of later English royal lines in the early 14th century.
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Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk
Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, was an influential early 17th-century English nobleman, courtier, and statesman who served as Lord Chamberlain and Lord High Treasurer under King James I.
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John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick
John Dudley, 2nd Earl of Warwick, was an English nobleman and soldier of the mid-16th century, known as the son and heir of John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, and for his role in the political and military affairs of Edward VI’s reign.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk Description of subject: John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent 15th-century English nobleman, soldier, and staunch supporter of King Richard III who became the first Howard to hold the dukedom of Norfolk.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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