Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk
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Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, was an early 17th-century English nobleman and courtier who held high offices under King James I and King Charles I.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4152370 — 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: Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk Context triple: [Marshal of England, positionHeldBy, Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk]
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A.
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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B.
Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel
Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel, was a prominent English nobleman and Catholic martyr under Elizabeth I, later canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent 16th-century English nobleman and politician who became entangled in plots surrounding Mary, Queen of Scots, ultimately leading to his execution for treason under Queen Elizabeth I.
- 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: Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk Target entity description: Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, was an early 17th-century English nobleman and courtier who held high offices under King James I and King Charles I.
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A.
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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B.
Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel
Philip Howard, 13th Earl of Arundel, was a prominent English nobleman and Catholic martyr under Elizabeth I, later canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church.
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C.
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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D.
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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E.
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk
Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, was a prominent 16th-century English nobleman and politician who became entangled in plots surrounding Mary, Queen of Scots, ultimately leading to his execution for treason under Queen Elizabeth I.
- 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: Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk Description of subject: Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, was an early 17th-century English nobleman and courtier who held high offices under King James I and King Charles I.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.