Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh
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Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh, was an early 15th-century English nobleman and peer connected to the royal House of York through his mother, Constance of York.
All labels observed (1)
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| Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9440459 — 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: Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh Context triple: [Constance of York, child, Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh]
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A.
Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester
Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester, was an English nobleman and supporter of King Richard II who was later executed for his role in the Epiphany Rising against Henry IV.
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B.
Hugh le Despenser, Justiciar of England
Hugh le Despenser, Justiciar of England, was a prominent 13th-century royal official and supporter of King Henry III who served as chief justiciar before being slain during the Second Barons' War.
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C.
Hugh Despenser the Elder
Hugh Despenser the Elder was a powerful English nobleman and royal favorite of Edward II, whose influence and land acquisitions helped spark baronial opposition and ultimately led to his execution in 1326.
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D.
Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, was a prominent 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader who became one of the most powerful magnates in England and Ireland and famously rebelled against King Henry III.
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E.
Hugh Despenser the Younger
Hugh Despenser the Younger was a powerful and unpopular English nobleman whose dominance at the court of Edward II and ruthless pursuit of wealth helped provoke the baronial revolt that led to his execution in 1326.
- 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: Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh Target entity description: Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh, was an early 15th-century English nobleman and peer connected to the royal House of York through his mother, Constance of York.
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A.
Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester
Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester, was an English nobleman and supporter of King Richard II who was later executed for his role in the Epiphany Rising against Henry IV.
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B.
Hugh le Despenser, Justiciar of England
Hugh le Despenser, Justiciar of England, was a prominent 13th-century royal official and supporter of King Henry III who served as chief justiciar before being slain during the Second Barons' War.
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C.
Hugh Despenser the Elder
Hugh Despenser the Elder was a powerful English nobleman and royal favorite of Edward II, whose influence and land acquisitions helped spark baronial opposition and ultimately led to his execution in 1326.
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D.
Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke
Richard Marshal, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, was a prominent 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader who became one of the most powerful magnates in England and Ireland and famously rebelled against King Henry III.
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E.
Hugh Despenser the Younger
Hugh Despenser the Younger was a powerful and unpopular English nobleman whose dominance at the court of Edward II and ruthless pursuit of wealth helped provoke the baronial revolt that led to his execution in 1326.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
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: Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh Description of subject: Richard le Despenser, 4th Baron Burghersh, was an early 15th-century English nobleman and peer connected to the royal House of York through his mother, Constance of York.
Referenced by (1)
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