Katherine Broughton
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Katherine Broughton was an English noblewoman of the Tudor period, best known as the wife of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, and a member of the extended Howard family circle.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Katherine Broughton canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9887262 — 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: Katherine Broughton Context triple: [William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, spouse, Katherine Broughton]
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A.
Catherine Melville
Catherine Melville was a 19th-century American woman best known as a sister of the novelist Herman Melville.
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B.
Catherine Gordon
Catherine Gordon was a Scottish heiress and the mother of the Romantic poet Lord Byron, whose troubled marriage and financial difficulties influenced his early life.
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C.
Katherine Carey
Katherine Carey was an English noblewoman of the late 16th century, a member of the influential Carey family closely connected to the Tudor court.
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D.
Anne Stirling
Anne Stirling is known primarily as the mother of the renowned Scottish mathematician and architect James Stirling.
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E.
Catherine Mompesson
Catherine Mompesson was the wife of Eyam’s rector during the 1665–1666 plague outbreak, remembered for her selfless care of the sick and her death from the disease.
- 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: Katherine Broughton Target entity description: Katherine Broughton was an English noblewoman of the Tudor period, best known as the wife of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, and a member of the extended Howard family circle.
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A.
Catherine Melville
Catherine Melville was a 19th-century American woman best known as a sister of the novelist Herman Melville.
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B.
Catherine Gordon
Catherine Gordon was a Scottish heiress and the mother of the Romantic poet Lord Byron, whose troubled marriage and financial difficulties influenced his early life.
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C.
Katherine Carey
Katherine Carey was an English noblewoman of the late 16th century, a member of the influential Carey family closely connected to the Tudor court.
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D.
Anne Stirling
Anne Stirling is known primarily as the mother of the renowned Scottish mathematician and architect James Stirling.
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E.
Catherine Mompesson
Catherine Mompesson was the wife of Eyam’s rector during the 1665–1666 plague outbreak, remembered for her selfless care of the sick and her death from the disease.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (18)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English noble family
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English nobleman ⓘ English noblewoman ⓘ Tudor-period noblewoman ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| memberOf | Howard family circle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily |
Howard family
NERFINISHED
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Howard family (by marriage) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | being wife of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham ⓘ |
| residence | Kingdom of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialStatus | nobility ⓘ |
| spouse |
Katherine Broughton
NERFINISHED
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William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Tudor period 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: Katherine Broughton Description of subject: Katherine Broughton was an English noblewoman of the Tudor period, best known as the wife of William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, and a member of the extended Howard family circle.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.