William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey
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William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, was a prominent Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader of the late 11th and early 12th centuries, closely associated with the English crown and extensive landholdings in England.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey canonical | 4 |
| William de Warenne | 2 |
| William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6793406 — 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 de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey Context triple: [Sandal Castle, builtBy, William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey]
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John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey
John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, was an English nobleman and military leader of the late 13th and early 14th centuries, noted for his prominent role in the early stages of the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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B.
William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury
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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C.
Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon
Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, was a prominent 16th-century English nobleman and courtier closely connected to the Tudor monarchy and involved in the political and religious affairs of Elizabeth I’s reign.
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D.
Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury
Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, was a powerful and notoriously ruthless Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader active in England and Normandy during the late 11th and early 12th centuries.
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E.
Simon de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton
Simon de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton, was an influential Anglo-Norman nobleman of the 11th–12th centuries who held major earldoms in England and played a significant role in the early development of Northampton.
- 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 de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey Target entity description: William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, was a prominent Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader of the late 11th and early 12th centuries, closely associated with the English crown and extensive landholdings in England.
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A.
John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey
John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey, was an English nobleman and military leader of the late 13th and early 14th centuries, noted for his prominent role in the early stages of the Wars of Scottish Independence.
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B.
William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury
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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C.
Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon
Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, was a prominent 16th-century English nobleman and courtier closely connected to the Tudor monarchy and involved in the political and religious affairs of Elizabeth I’s reign.
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D.
Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury
Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, was a powerful and notoriously ruthless Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader active in England and Normandy during the late 11th and early 12th centuries.
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E.
Simon de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton
Simon de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton, was an influential Anglo-Norman nobleman of the 11th–12th centuries who held major earldoms in England and played a significant role in the early development of Northampton.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
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: William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey Description of subject: William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, was a prominent Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader of the late 11th and early 12th centuries, closely associated with the English crown and extensive landholdings in England.
Referenced by (7)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey