Yorkist forces
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Yorkist forces were the military troops loyal to the House of York during England’s Wars of the Roses.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Yorkists | 8 |
| Yorkist forces canonical | 6 |
| Yorkist faction | 4 |
| Yorkist | 2 |
| House of York supporters | 1 |
| Yorkist leadership | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6072861 — 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: Yorkist forces Context triple: [Carreg Cennen Castle, demolishedBy, Yorkist forces]
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Lancastrian forces
The Lancastrian forces were the military supporters of the House of Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses, fighting to uphold its claim to the English throne against the rival House of York.
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Henry Tudor’s forces
Henry Tudor’s forces were the army that defeated King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, leading to the founding of the Tudor dynasty in England.
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Catholic League army
The Catholic League army was the military force of a coalition of Catholic states in the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War, known for its major role in fighting Protestant powers.
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D.
Army of England
The Army of England was the principal land force of the English state before the formation of the unified British Army, responsible for the kingdom’s military operations and defense.
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E.
Saxon Army
The Saxon Army was the military force of the Kingdom of Saxony, later integrated into the unified German military structure of the Imperial German Army.
- 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: Yorkist forces Target entity description: Yorkist forces were the military troops loyal to the House of York during England’s Wars of the Roses.
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A.
Lancastrian forces
The Lancastrian forces were the military supporters of the House of Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses, fighting to uphold its claim to the English throne against the rival House of York.
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B.
Henry Tudor’s forces
Henry Tudor’s forces were the army that defeated King Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field in 1485, leading to the founding of the Tudor dynasty in England.
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C.
Catholic League army
The Catholic League army was the military force of a coalition of Catholic states in the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War, known for its major role in fighting Protestant powers.
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D.
Army of England
The Army of England was the principal land force of the English state before the formation of the unified British Army, responsible for the kingdom’s military operations and defense.
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E.
Saxon Army
The Saxon Army was the military force of the Kingdom of Saxony, later integrated into the unified German military structure of the Imperial German Army.
- 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: Yorkist forces Description of subject: Yorkist forces were the military troops loyal to the House of York during England’s Wars of the Roses.
Referenced by (22)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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white rose of York
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subject linked to:
Thomas Courtenay
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