Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk
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Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent English nobleman and military commander of the late 15th and early 16th centuries who played a key role in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk canonical | 18 |
| Thomas Howard (marriage later annulled) | 1 |
| Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (3rd creation) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4152308 — 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: Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk Context triple: [House of Howard, notableMember, Thomas Howard, 2nd 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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John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk
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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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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D.
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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E.
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, was an English nobleman, soldier, and patron of learning in the late 15th century, noted for his influence at the Yorkist court and his role in the turbulent politics surrounding the Wars of the Roses.
- 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: Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk Target entity description: Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent English nobleman and military commander of the late 15th and early 16th centuries who played a key role in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII.
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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.
John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk
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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C.
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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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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E.
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, was an English nobleman, soldier, and patron of learning in the late 15th century, noted for his influence at the Yorkist court and his role in the turbulent politics surrounding the Wars of the Roses.
- 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: Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk Description of subject: Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent English nobleman and military commander of the late 15th and early 16th centuries who played a key role in the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII.
Referenced by (20)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk
linked to: Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk