Frances Walsingham
E435351
Frances Walsingham was an English noblewoman, daughter of Queen Elizabeth I’s spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and widow of Sir Philip Sidney, who later married Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frances Walsingham canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4352346 — 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: Frances Walsingham Context triple: [Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex, mother, Frances Walsingham]
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A.
Elizabeth Popham
Elizabeth Popham was an English gentlewoman of the 18th century best known as the mother of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, a prominent British statesman.
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B.
Sir Francis Walsingham
Sir Francis Walsingham was Queen Elizabeth I’s principal secretary and spymaster, renowned for building an extensive intelligence network that protected England from internal and external threats.
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C.
Frances Howard
Frances Howard was an American stage and film actress of the early 20th century who later became known as the wife of producer Samuel Goldwyn and the mother of film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
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D.
Frances Howard, Countess of Essex
Frances Howard, Countess of Essex, was a prominent early 17th-century English noblewoman best known for her scandalous annulment from the Earl of Essex and subsequent marriage to King James I’s favorite, Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset.
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E.
Mary Walsingham
Mary Walsingham was an English gentlewoman of the 16th century, known primarily as the wife of statesman and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Walter Mildmay.
- 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: Frances Walsingham Target entity description: Frances Walsingham was an English noblewoman, daughter of Queen Elizabeth I’s spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and widow of Sir Philip Sidney, who later married Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.
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A.
Elizabeth Popham
Elizabeth Popham was an English gentlewoman of the 18th century best known as the mother of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, a prominent British statesman.
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B.
Sir Francis Walsingham
Sir Francis Walsingham was Queen Elizabeth I’s principal secretary and spymaster, renowned for building an extensive intelligence network that protected England from internal and external threats.
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C.
Frances Howard
Frances Howard was an American stage and film actress of the early 20th century who later became known as the wife of producer Samuel Goldwyn and the mother of film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
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D.
Frances Howard, Countess of Essex
Frances Howard, Countess of Essex, was a prominent early 17th-century English noblewoman best known for her scandalous annulment from the Earl of Essex and subsequent marriage to King James I’s favorite, Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset.
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E.
Mary Walsingham
Mary Walsingham was an English gentlewoman of the 16th century, known primarily as the wife of statesman and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Walter Mildmay.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English noblewoman
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Burke (de Burgh) family of Clanricarde
NERFINISHED
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Devereux family NERFINISHED ⓘ Francis Walsingham’s intelligence and political network ⓘ Sidney family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Westminster Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Dorothy Devereux (daughter of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex and Frances)
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Dorothy Sidney NERFINISHED ⓘ Frances Devereux NERFINISHED ⓘ Honora Burke NERFINISHED ⓘ Lettice Devereux NERFINISHED ⓘ Penelope Rich (through marriage to Philip Sidney, step‑relation noted in some sources) NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex NERFINISHED ⓘ Ulick Burke, 1st Marquess of Clanricarde NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | circa 1567 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 17 February 1631 ⓘ |
| era |
Elizabethan era
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jacobean era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Walsingham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Francis Walsingham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruit |
early 17th century
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late 16th century ⓘ |
| givenName | Frances NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| mother | Ursula St Barbe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Countess of Clanricarde
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Countess of Essex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent |
lived through the Essex Rebellion of 1601 and execution of her husband Robert Devereux
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marriage to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, a favorite of Elizabeth I ⓘ widowhood after death of Sir Philip Sidney in 1586 ⓘ |
| notableRelative |
Elizabeth I of England
NERFINISHED
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Henry Sidney NERFINISHED ⓘ Lettice Knollys NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary Dudley NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester NERFINISHED ⓘ Ulick Burke, 3rd Earl of Clanricarde NERFINISHED ⓘ Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | England ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | England ⓘ |
| religion |
Protestant Christianity
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surface form:
Protestantism
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| residence |
Court of Elizabeth I
NERFINISHED
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England ⓘ Essex House, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| spouse |
Philip Sidney
NERFINISHED
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Richard Burke, 4th Earl of Clanricarde NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Frances Walsingham Description of subject: Frances Walsingham was an English noblewoman, daughter of Queen Elizabeth I’s spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and widow of Sir Philip Sidney, who later married Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.