FitzAlan family
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The FitzAlan family was a powerful Anglo-Norman noble dynasty that held the Earldom of Arundel and played a major role in medieval English politics and aristocracy.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| FitzAlan family canonical | 11 |
| FitzAlan | 4 |
| FitzAlan-Howard | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8317642 — 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: FitzAlan family Context triple: [de Montgomery, relatedFamily, FitzAlan family]
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FitzWalter family
The FitzWalter family is a prominent English noble lineage best known for its medieval barons, including Robert Fitzwalter, a leading opponent of King John and a key figure in the events surrounding Magna Carta.
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Lannan family
The Lannan family is a philanthropic family best known for establishing the Lannan Foundation, which supports contemporary literature, poetry, and social justice through prestigious cultural and literary awards.
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House Frey
House Frey is a prominent noble family in George R. R. Martin’s "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, notorious for its treacherous role in the Red Wedding and its control of the strategically vital Twins crossing.
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House Tully
House Tully is a prominent noble family in the world of "A Song of Ice and Fire" and "Game of Thrones," ruling the riverlands from their ancestral seat at Riverrun.
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Brienne dynasty
The Brienne dynasty was a medieval French noble house that gained prominence through its crusader activities and briefly held power over territories such as the Duchy of Athens.
- 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: FitzAlan family Target entity description: The FitzAlan family was a powerful Anglo-Norman noble dynasty that held the Earldom of Arundel and played a major role in medieval English politics and aristocracy.
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A.
FitzWalter family
The FitzWalter family is a prominent English noble lineage best known for its medieval barons, including Robert Fitzwalter, a leading opponent of King John and a key figure in the events surrounding Magna Carta.
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B.
Lannan family
The Lannan family is a philanthropic family best known for establishing the Lannan Foundation, which supports contemporary literature, poetry, and social justice through prestigious cultural and literary awards.
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C.
House Frey
House Frey is a prominent noble family in George R. R. Martin’s "A Song of Ice and Fire" series, notorious for its treacherous role in the Red Wedding and its control of the strategically vital Twins crossing.
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D.
House Tully
House Tully is a prominent noble family in the world of "A Song of Ice and Fire" and "Game of Thrones," ruling the riverlands from their ancestral seat at Riverrun.
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E.
Brienne dynasty
The Brienne dynasty was a medieval French noble house that gained prominence through its crusader activities and briefly held power over territories such as the Duchy of Athens.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: FitzAlan family Description of subject: The FitzAlan family was a powerful Anglo-Norman noble dynasty that held the Earldom of Arundel and played a major role in medieval English politics and aristocracy.
Referenced by (16)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.