Thomas Wintour
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Thomas Wintour was an English conspirator best known as one of the key Catholic plotters involved in the 1605 attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament and assassinate King James I.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Wintour canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5454215 — 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 Wintour Context triple: [Gunpowder Plot, participant, Thomas Wintour]
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A.
Charles Wintour
Charles Wintour was a prominent British newspaper editor best known for modernizing London’s Evening Standard and for being the father of Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.
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B.
Ricky Wintour
Ricky Wintour is a central fictional character in the manga and anime series "Pose," around whom much of the story’s drama and character dynamics revolve.
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C.
Duncan Rice
Duncan Rice is a Scottish academic and former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, honored by having the university’s main library named after him.
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D.
Graham Baldwin
Graham Baldwin is a British academic and university leader who serves as the vice-chancellor of the University of Central Lancashire.
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E.
Roy Jenkins
Roy Jenkins was a prominent British politician and statesman, known for serving as Home Secretary, President of the European Commission, and later as a leading figure in the breakaway centrist movement that reshaped UK politics in the early 1980s.
- 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 Wintour Target entity description: Thomas Wintour was an English conspirator best known as one of the key Catholic plotters involved in the 1605 attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament and assassinate King James I.
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A.
Charles Wintour
Charles Wintour was a prominent British newspaper editor best known for modernizing London’s Evening Standard and for being the father of Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.
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B.
Ricky Wintour
Ricky Wintour is a central fictional character in the manga and anime series "Pose," around whom much of the story’s drama and character dynamics revolve.
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C.
Duncan Rice
Duncan Rice is a Scottish academic and former Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen, honored by having the university’s main library named after him.
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D.
Graham Baldwin
Graham Baldwin is a British academic and university leader who serves as the vice-chancellor of the University of Central Lancashire.
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E.
Roy Jenkins
Roy Jenkins was a prominent British politician and statesman, known for serving as Home Secretary, President of the European Commission, and later as a leading figure in the breakaway centrist movement that reshaped UK politics in the early 1980s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic
ⓘ
English person ⓘ conspirator ⓘ person ⓘ |
| alternateName | Thomas Winter NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Houses of Parliament
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
King James I of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1571 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | hanging, drawing and quartering ⓘ |
| coConspirator |
Ambrose Rookwood
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Christopher Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ Everard Digby NERFINISHED ⓘ Francis Tresham NERFINISHED ⓘ Guy Fawkes NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Garnet NERFINISHED ⓘ John Grant NERFINISHED ⓘ John Wright NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Catesby NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Keyes NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Wintour NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Bates NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| convictedOf | high treason ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1606-01-31 ⓘ |
| deathYear | 1606 ⓘ |
| detainedBy | Tower of London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Elizabethan era
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jacobean era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
attempt to assassinate King James I
ⓘ
attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605 ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| movement | English Catholic recusancy ⓘ |
| name | Thomas Wintour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | Gunpowder Plot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation | conspirator ⓘ |
| opposedTo | rule of King James I ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Gunpowder Plot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | England ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
Old Palace Yard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | pro-Catholic ⓘ |
| relative | Robert Catesby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sibling | Robert Wintour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| wrote | confession of involvement in the Gunpowder Plot ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Thomas Wintour Description of subject: Thomas Wintour was an English conspirator best known as one of the key Catholic plotters involved in the 1605 attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament and assassinate King James I.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Gunpowder Plot