House of Woodville
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The House of Woodville was a prominent English noble family of the 15th century, best known for producing Elizabeth Woodville, queen consort to King Edward IV during the Wars of the Roses.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| House of Woodville canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5151822 — 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: House of Woodville Context triple: [Elizabeth Woodville, house, House of Woodville]
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A.
House of York
The House of York was a prominent late medieval English royal dynasty that contested the throne during the Wars of the Roses and produced kings such as Edward IV and Richard III.
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B.
House of Lancaster
The House of Lancaster was a cadet branch of the English royal Plantagenet dynasty that produced several medieval kings and played a central role in the Wars of the Roses.
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C.
House of Boleyn
The House of Boleyn was an English noble family of the Tudor period, most famous for producing Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII and mother of Queen Elizabeth I.
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D.
House of Stanley
The House of Stanley was a powerful English noble family from Lancashire that rose to prominence in the late Middle Ages and played a decisive role in the Wars of the Roses and the early Tudor period.
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E.
House of Gloucester
The House of Gloucester was a medieval English noble lineage associated with the Earldom of Gloucester and influential in the politics of the Anglo-Norman and Plantagenet periods.
- 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: House of Woodville Target entity description: The House of Woodville was a prominent English noble family of the 15th century, best known for producing Elizabeth Woodville, queen consort to King Edward IV during the Wars of the Roses.
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A.
House of York
The House of York was a prominent late medieval English royal dynasty that contested the throne during the Wars of the Roses and produced kings such as Edward IV and Richard III.
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B.
House of Lancaster
The House of Lancaster was a cadet branch of the English royal Plantagenet dynasty that produced several medieval kings and played a central role in the Wars of the Roses.
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C.
House of Boleyn
The House of Boleyn was an English noble family of the Tudor period, most famous for producing Anne Boleyn, the second wife of King Henry VIII and mother of Queen Elizabeth I.
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D.
House of Stanley
The House of Stanley was a powerful English noble family from Lancashire that rose to prominence in the late Middle Ages and played a decisive role in the Wars of the Roses and the early Tudor period.
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E.
House of Gloucester
The House of Gloucester was a medieval English noble lineage associated with the Earldom of Gloucester and influential in the politics of the Anglo-Norman and Plantagenet periods.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (46)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English noble family
ⓘ
late medieval English dynasty ⓘ |
| activePeriod | 15th century ⓘ |
| associatedConflict | Wars of the Roses ⓘ |
| coatOfArmsFeature | a fess between three cinquefoils ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| declinePeriod | late 1480s ⓘ |
| familyPatriarch | Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers ⓘ |
| gainedInfluenceThrough | marriage alliance with King Edward IV ⓘ |
| historicalReputation | controversial due to rapid rise and political influence ⓘ |
| influencedSuccessionOf | English throne in late 15th century ⓘ |
| knownFor | producing Elizabeth Woodville, queen consort of Edward IV ⓘ |
| language | Middle English ⓘ |
| lostPowerAfter | accession of Richard III ⓘ |
| maritalAlliance |
House of Buckingham through Katherine Woodville
ⓘ
linked to:
Catherine Woodville
House of Grey through Elizabeth Woodville’s first marriage ⓘ House of York through Elizabeth Woodville ⓘ |
| matriarch | Jacquetta of Luxembourg ⓘ |
| memberExecutedBy | Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick ⓘ |
| memberExecutedDuring | Wars of the Roses ⓘ |
| memberHeldOffice |
Lord Great Chamberlain of England
ⓘ
linked to:
Lord Great Chamberlain of the United Kingdom
Lord High Treasurer of England ⓘ
linked to:
Lord High Treasurer
|
| memberHeldTitle |
Bishop of Salisbury
ⓘ
Earl Rivers ⓘ
linked to:
Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers
Queen consort of England ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Anne Woodville
ⓘ
linked to:
Catherine Woodville
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers ⓘ Elizabeth Woodville ⓘ Jacquetta of Luxembourg ⓘ John Woodville ⓘ
linked to:
Sir John Woodville
Katherine Woodville ⓘ
linked to:
Catherine Woodville
Lionel Woodville ⓘ Mary Woodville ⓘ Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick
ⓘ
some Yorkist nobility ⓘ |
| originRegion | Northamptonshire ⓘ |
| perceivedByRivalsAs | upstart family of relatively modest origins ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Yorkist faction during the Wars of the Roses ⓘ |
| principalSeat |
Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire
ⓘ
linked to:
Grafton Regis
|
| producedQueenConsortOf | Edward IV of England ⓘ |
| relatedHouse |
House of Lancaster
ⓘ
House of Tudor ⓘ
linked to:
Tudor dynasty
House of York ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| socialRise | rose rapidly in status after Elizabeth Woodville’s marriage to Edward IV ⓘ |
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: House of Woodville Description of subject: The House of Woodville was a prominent English noble family of the 15th century, best known for producing Elizabeth Woodville, queen consort to King Edward IV during the Wars of the Roses.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.