Walter Devereux
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Walter Devereux was a 15th-century English nobleman and Yorkist military leader who played a prominent role in the Wars of the Roses.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford | 3 |
| Walter Devereux canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10271375 — 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: Walter Devereux Context triple: [Siege of Harlech (1461–1468), commanderYorkist, Walter Devereux]
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Walter Devereux
Walter Devereux was an English officer in the service of the Holy Roman Empire, best known for assassinating the imperial general Albrecht von Wallenstein during the Thirty Years' War.
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B.
John Mordaunt
John Mordaunt is a relative of British Conservative politician Penny Mordaunt, who has served as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council.
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C.
Walter Montagu
Walter Montagu was a 17th-century English courtier, diplomat, and writer who became a Catholic priest and abbot, known for his political influence and religious conversions during the reigns of Charles I and Charles II.
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D.
George Talbot
George Talbot is a notable member of the historically prominent Talbot family, an English noble lineage influential in medieval and early modern Britain.
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E.
Sir Arthur Wardour
Sir Arthur Wardour is a proud, antiquarian Scottish baronet in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Antiquary," known for his stubbornness, social pretensions, and financial imprudence.
- 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: Walter Devereux Target entity description: Walter Devereux was a 15th-century English nobleman and Yorkist military leader who played a prominent role in the Wars of the Roses.
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A.
Walter Devereux
Walter Devereux was an English officer in the service of the Holy Roman Empire, best known for assassinating the imperial general Albrecht von Wallenstein during the Thirty Years' War.
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B.
John Mordaunt
John Mordaunt is a relative of British Conservative politician Penny Mordaunt, who has served as Leader of the House of Commons and Lord President of the Council.
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C.
Walter Montagu
Walter Montagu was a 17th-century English courtier, diplomat, and writer who became a Catholic priest and abbot, known for his political influence and religious conversions during the reigns of Charles I and Charles II.
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D.
George Talbot
George Talbot is a notable member of the historically prominent Talbot family, an English noble lineage influential in medieval and early modern Britain.
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E.
Sir Arthur Wardour
Sir Arthur Wardour is a proud, antiquarian Scottish baronet in Sir Walter Scott’s novel "The Antiquary," known for his stubbornness, social pretensions, and financial imprudence.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
15th-century English person
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English nobleman ⓘ Yorkist military leader ⓘ |
| allegiance | House of York ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Devereux ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | Walter ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Yorkist forces ⓘ |
| notableFor |
role in the Wars of the Roses
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service as a Yorkist military leader ⓘ |
| participantIn | Wars of the Roses ⓘ |
| positionHeld | nobleman in the Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 15th century ⓘ |
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: Walter Devereux Description of subject: Walter Devereux was a 15th-century English nobleman and Yorkist military leader who played a prominent role in the Wars of the Roses.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
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linked to: Walter Devereux