Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk
E431762
Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent early 19th-century British peer and leading Roman Catholic nobleman who played a significant role in the period surrounding Catholic Emancipation.
All labels observed (1)
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| Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk canonical | 5 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4152315 — 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: Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk Context triple: [House of Howard, notableMember, Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk]
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Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk
Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent 17th-century English nobleman and politician who served as Earl Marshal and played a key role in the restoration of his family’s titles and estates after the English Civil War.
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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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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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D.
Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset
Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, was an 18th-century British nobleman and politician who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and held several high offices under Kings George I and George II.
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E.
Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford
Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford, was an English nobleman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who held one of the most prominent dukedoms in the peerage of England.
- 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: Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk Target entity description: Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent early 19th-century British peer and leading Roman Catholic nobleman who played a significant role in the period surrounding Catholic Emancipation.
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A.
Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk
Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent 17th-century English nobleman and politician who served as Earl Marshal and played a key role in the restoration of his family’s titles and estates after the English Civil War.
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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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C.
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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D.
Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset
Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, was an 18th-century British nobleman and politician who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and held several high offices under Kings George I and George II.
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E.
Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford
Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford, was an English nobleman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who held one of the most prominent dukedoms in the peerage of England.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
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: Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk Description of subject: Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent early 19th-century British peer and leading Roman Catholic nobleman who played a significant role in the period surrounding Catholic Emancipation.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.