Alan of Walsingham
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Alan of Walsingham was a 14th-century English monk and master mason best known for designing the innovative octagonal lantern and rebuilding work at Ely Cathedral after the collapse of its central tower.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Alan of Walsingham canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8017313 — 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: Alan of Walsingham Context triple: [Octagon Tower, architect, Alan of Walsingham]
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A.
Richard of Dover
Richard of Dover was a 12th-century English Benedictine monk who became Archbishop of Canterbury following the martyrdom of Thomas Becket.
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B.
Nicholas of Guildford
Nicholas of Guildford is a medieval English writer believed by some scholars to be the author of the Middle English debate poem *The Owl and the Nightingale*.
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C.
John of Cornwall
John of Cornwall was a 13th-century English nobleman, the son of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, and a member of the Plantagenet royal family.
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D.
Walter Cromwell
Walter Cromwell was an English brewer, blacksmith, and innkeeper of Putney, best known as the father of Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to King Henry VIII.
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E.
William of Hatfield
William of Hatfield was a short-lived English prince of the 14th century, one of the younger sons of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault.
- 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: Alan of Walsingham Target entity description: Alan of Walsingham was a 14th-century English monk and master mason best known for designing the innovative octagonal lantern and rebuilding work at Ely Cathedral after the collapse of its central tower.
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A.
Richard of Dover
Richard of Dover was a 12th-century English Benedictine monk who became Archbishop of Canterbury following the martyrdom of Thomas Becket.
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B.
Nicholas of Guildford
Nicholas of Guildford is a medieval English writer believed by some scholars to be the author of the Middle English debate poem *The Owl and the Nightingale*.
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C.
John of Cornwall
John of Cornwall was a 13th-century English nobleman, the son of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, and a member of the Plantagenet royal family.
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D.
Walter Cromwell
Walter Cromwell was an English brewer, blacksmith, and innkeeper of Putney, best known as the father of Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to King Henry VIII.
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E.
William of Hatfield
William of Hatfield was a short-lived English prince of the 14th century, one of the younger sons of King Edward III and Philippa of Hainault.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English monk
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architect ⓘ human ⓘ master mason ⓘ |
| architecturalStyle | Decorated Gothic NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedIn | Ely NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| era |
14th-century England
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Middle Ages ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
ecclesiastical architecture
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stone masonry ⓘ |
| floruit | 14th century ⓘ |
| genre | Gothic architecture NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
designing the octagon and lantern at Ely Cathedral
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rebuilding work at Ely Cathedral after the collapse of its central tower ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Latin
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Middle English ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Ely Cathedral lantern
NERFINISHED
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Ely Cathedral octagon NERFINISHED ⓘ reconstruction of the central crossing of Ely Cathedral ⓘ |
| occupation |
architect
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master mason ⓘ monk ⓘ |
| partOf | community of Ely Cathedral ⓘ |
| placeOfWork | Ely Cathedral NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | sacrist of Ely Cathedral ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| religiousOrder | Benedictines NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| workLocation |
Ely Cathedral
NERFINISHED
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Ely, Cambridgeshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Alan of Walsingham Description of subject: Alan of Walsingham was a 14th-century English monk and master mason best known for designing the innovative octagonal lantern and rebuilding work at Ely Cathedral after the collapse of its central tower.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.