William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury
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William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, was an illegitimate son of King Henry II of England who became a prominent Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader in the early 13th century.
All labels observed (1)
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| William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4653457 — 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: William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury Context triple: [Battle of Bouvines, commander, William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury]
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Ranulf de Blondeville
Ranulf de Blondeville was a powerful Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader of the late 12th and early 13th centuries, best known as the 6th Earl of Chester and a key supporter of the English crown during the reigns of Richard I and John.
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B.
William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, was a 13th-century English nobleman and magnate who inherited his famous father's titles and estates and played a role in the politics of the early reign of Henry III.
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C.
Henry de Montfort
Henry de Montfort was the eldest son of Simon de Montfort, a prominent supporter of the baronial cause against King Henry III during the Second Barons' War in 13th-century England.
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D.
Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester
Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, was a powerful 13th-century English nobleman and military leader who played a pivotal role in the conflicts between the crown and the barons, particularly during the reign of Henry III and Edward I.
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E.
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, was a renowned Anglo-Norman knight and statesman who served multiple English kings and became one of medieval England’s most powerful and respected magnates.
- 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: William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury Target entity description: William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, was an illegitimate son of King Henry II of England who became a prominent Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader in the early 13th century.
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A.
Ranulf de Blondeville
Ranulf de Blondeville was a powerful Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader of the late 12th and early 13th centuries, best known as the 6th Earl of Chester and a key supporter of the English crown during the reigns of Richard I and John.
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B.
William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke
William Marshal, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, was a 13th-century English nobleman and magnate who inherited his famous father's titles and estates and played a role in the politics of the early reign of Henry III.
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C.
Henry de Montfort
Henry de Montfort was the eldest son of Simon de Montfort, a prominent supporter of the baronial cause against King Henry III during the Second Barons' War in 13th-century England.
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D.
Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester
Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester, was a powerful 13th-century English nobleman and military leader who played a pivotal role in the conflicts between the crown and the barons, particularly during the reign of Henry III and Edward I.
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E.
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke
William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, was a renowned Anglo-Norman knight and statesman who served multiple English kings and became one of medieval England’s most powerful and respected magnates.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
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: William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury Description of subject: William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, was an illegitimate son of King Henry II of England who became a prominent Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader in the early 13th century.
Referenced by (2)
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