Custos Rotulorum of the West Riding of Yorkshire
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The Custos Rotulorum of the West Riding of Yorkshire was the chief civil officer and keeper of the county records for the West Riding of Yorkshire, typically held by a leading local nobleman.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Custos Rotulorum of the West Riding of Yorkshire canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5189172 — 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: Custos Rotulorum of the West Riding of Yorkshire Context triple: [Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, positionHeld, Custos Rotulorum of the West Riding of Yorkshire]
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Custos Rotulorum of the North Riding of Yorkshire
The Custos Rotulorum of the North Riding of Yorkshire was the senior civil officer in that historic subdivision of Yorkshire, traditionally responsible for the county’s records and often held by the same person as the Lord Lieutenant.
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B.
Newspaper and Stamp Duties Act 1819
The Newspaper and Stamp Duties Act 1819 was a British law that increased taxes and restrictions on newspapers and pamphlets as part of the repressive Six Acts aimed at curbing radical political expression after the Peterloo Massacre.
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Lancaster palatine courts
The Lancaster palatine courts were special judicial bodies in the historic County Palatine of Lancaster that exercised many of the legal and administrative powers normally reserved to the royal courts.
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Consistory Court of York
The Consistory Court of York is an ecclesiastical court of the Church of England, historically responsible for church discipline, faculty jurisdiction over church property, and certain moral and matrimonial matters within the Province of York.
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E.
Regents of the Old Men’s Almshouse
Regents of the Old Men’s Almshouse is a 17th-century group portrait painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Frans Hals depicting the governors of a charitable institution for elderly men in Haarlem.
- 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: Custos Rotulorum of the West Riding of Yorkshire Target entity description: The Custos Rotulorum of the West Riding of Yorkshire was the chief civil officer and keeper of the county records for the West Riding of Yorkshire, typically held by a leading local nobleman.
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A.
Custos Rotulorum of the North Riding of Yorkshire
The Custos Rotulorum of the North Riding of Yorkshire was the senior civil officer in that historic subdivision of Yorkshire, traditionally responsible for the county’s records and often held by the same person as the Lord Lieutenant.
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B.
Newspaper and Stamp Duties Act 1819
The Newspaper and Stamp Duties Act 1819 was a British law that increased taxes and restrictions on newspapers and pamphlets as part of the repressive Six Acts aimed at curbing radical political expression after the Peterloo Massacre.
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C.
Lancaster palatine courts
The Lancaster palatine courts were special judicial bodies in the historic County Palatine of Lancaster that exercised many of the legal and administrative powers normally reserved to the royal courts.
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D.
Consistory Court of York
The Consistory Court of York is an ecclesiastical court of the Church of England, historically responsible for church discipline, faculty jurisdiction over church property, and certain moral and matrimonial matters within the Province of York.
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E.
Regents of the Old Men’s Almshouse
Regents of the Old Men’s Almshouse is a 17th-century group portrait painting by Dutch Golden Age artist Frans Hals depicting the governors of a charitable institution for elderly men in Haarlem.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (35)
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: Custos Rotulorum of the West Riding of Yorkshire Description of subject: The Custos Rotulorum of the West Riding of Yorkshire was the chief civil officer and keeper of the county records for the West Riding of Yorkshire, typically held by a leading local nobleman.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington
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positionHeld
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Custos Rotulorum of the West Riding of Yorkshire
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