Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester
E81286
Duke of Gloucester
English prince
Lord Appellant
medieval English nobleman
member of the House of Plantagenet
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, was a prominent 14th-century English prince and political figure who played a leading role in opposition to the government of his nephew, King Richard II.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester canonical | 25 |
| Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester | 3 |
| Thomas of Woodstock | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T520528 — 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: Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester Context triple: [Edward III of England, child, Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester]
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A.
Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence
Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, was a 14th-century English prince and nobleman whose lineage played a key role in the later Wars of the Roses through the Yorkist claim to the throne.
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B.
Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester
Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester was the youngest son of King Charles I of England, a royal prince whose life was marked by the turmoil of the English Civil War and who died young during the Restoration period.
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C.
Prince William of Gloucester
Prince William of Gloucester was a British royal, the adventurous and popular eldest son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, who served as a diplomat and pilot before dying in a plane crash in 1972.
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D.
Edward the Black Prince
Edward the Black Prince was a renowned 14th-century English military leader and heir apparent to the throne, celebrated for his victories in the Hundred Years' War, particularly at the Battle of Crécy and Poitiers.
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E.
Duke of Buckingham
The Duke of Buckingham is a powerful and romantic English nobleman whose secret love affair with Queen Anne drives much of the political intrigue in Alexandre Dumas’s novel *The Three Musketeers*.
- 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: Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester Target entity description: Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, was a prominent 14th-century English prince and political figure who played a leading role in opposition to the government of his nephew, King Richard II.
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A.
Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence
Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, was a 14th-century English prince and nobleman whose lineage played a key role in the later Wars of the Roses through the Yorkist claim to the throne.
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B.
Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester
Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester was the youngest son of King Charles I of England, a royal prince whose life was marked by the turmoil of the English Civil War and who died young during the Restoration period.
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C.
Prince William of Gloucester
Prince William of Gloucester was a British royal, the adventurous and popular eldest son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, who served as a diplomat and pilot before dying in a plane crash in 1972.
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D.
Edward the Black Prince
Edward the Black Prince was a renowned 14th-century English military leader and heir apparent to the throne, celebrated for his victories in the Hundred Years' War, particularly at the Battle of Crécy and Poitiers.
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E.
Duke of Buckingham
The Duke of Buckingham is a powerful and romantic English nobleman whose secret love affair with Queen Anne drives much of the political intrigue in Alexandre Dumas’s novel *The Three Musketeers*.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Duke of Gloucester
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English prince ⓘ Lord Appellant ⓘ medieval English nobleman ⓘ member of the House of Plantagenet ⓘ |
| allegiance | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| arrestDate | 1397 ⓘ |
| arrestOrderedBy |
King Richard II of England
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surface form:
Richard II of England
|
| birthDate | 7 January 1355 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Oxfordshire
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Woodstock Palace ⓘ |
| burialPlace |
Westminster Abbey, London
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surface form:
Westminster Abbey
|
| causeOfDeath | likely suffocation or strangulation ⓘ |
| coatOfArms | Royal arms of England differenced by a label of three points ermine ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| dateOfDukedom | 1385 ⓘ |
| deathContext |
King Richard II of England
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surface form:
ordered by or on behalf of Richard II of England
|
| deathDate | 8 or 9 September 1397 ⓘ |
| deathManner | murdered ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Calais ⓘ |
| era | 14th century ⓘ |
| father | Edward III of England ⓘ |
| fullName |
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Thomas of Woodstock
|
| house | House of Plantagenet ⓘ |
| issue |
Anne of Gloucester
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Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester ⓘ
surface form:
Humphrey of Gloucester
Joan of Gloucester ⓘ |
| language | Middle English ⓘ |
| marriageDate | circa 1374 ⓘ |
| militaryInvolvement | Hundred Years' War ⓘ |
| militaryRank | commander in English forces ⓘ |
| mother |
Queen Philippa of Hainault
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surface form:
Philippa of Hainault
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| nobleTitle |
Duke of Gloucester
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Earl of Buckingham ⓘ Earl of Buckingham ⓘ
surface form:
Earl of Essex
|
| notableEvent | Merciless Parliament ⓘ |
| politicalRole |
leader of opposition to Richard II
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one of the Lords Appellant ⓘ |
| reignContext | reign of Richard II of England ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| roleInEvent | leading Lord Appellant in the Merciless Parliament ⓘ |
| sibling |
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York
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Edward the Black Prince ⓘ
surface form:
Edward, the Black Prince
John of Gaunt ⓘ
surface form:
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster
Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence ⓘ |
| spouse | Eleanor de Bohun ⓘ |
| spouseFamily | de Bohun family ⓘ |
| titleGrantedBy |
King Richard II of England
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surface form:
Richard II of England
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| uncleOf |
King Richard II of England
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surface form:
Richard II of England
|
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: Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester Description of subject: Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, was a prominent 14th-century English prince and political figure who played a leading role in opposition to the government of his nephew, King Richard II.
Referenced by (29)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Philippa of Hainault
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester
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fullName
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Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester
self-linksurface differs
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this entity surface form:
Thomas of Woodstock
subject surface form:
Dukedom of Gloucester (1385 creation)
subject surface form:
Philippa of Hainault
subject surface form:
Philippa of Hainault
this entity surface form:
Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester
this entity surface form:
Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester
subject surface form:
Mary of Waltham
Isabella of England, Countess of Bedford
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notableRelative
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Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester
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this entity surface form:
Thomas of Woodstock, Duke of Gloucester