Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk
E441331
Duke of Norfolk
Earl Marshal of England
English nobleman
historical figure depicted in Shakespeare
medieval military leader
Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent English nobleman and military leader of the late 14th century, notable for his role in the politics of Richard II’s reign and his depiction in Shakespeare’s play "Richard II."
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk | 2 |
| Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4152360 — 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 Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk Context triple: [Marshal of England, positionHeldBy, Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk]
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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 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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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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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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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.
- 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 Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk Target entity description: Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent English nobleman and military leader of the late 14th century, notable for his role in the politics of Richard II’s reign and his depiction in Shakespeare’s play "Richard II."
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A.
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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B.
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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C.
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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D.
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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E.
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.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk Description of subject: Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent English nobleman and military leader of the late 14th century, notable for his role in the politics of Richard II’s reign and his depiction in Shakespeare’s play "Richard II."
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk
linked to: Thomas Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk