Robert de Vaux
E866800
Robert de Vaux was a medieval English nobleman known for his role as a landholder and religious patron in Norfolk.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert de Vaux canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10472167 — 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: Robert de Vaux Context triple: [Pentney Priory, foundedBy, Robert de Vaux]
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A.
Walter de Stapledon
Walter de Stapledon was a 14th-century English bishop of Exeter and royal administrator who played a significant role in both church and state during the reign of Edward II.
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B.
William de Tracy
William de Tracy was a 12th-century English knight best known as one of the four assassins of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.
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C.
William de Soulis
William de Soulis was a notorious 14th-century Scottish noble and alleged traitor, historically linked with dark legends and the ownership of Hermitage Castle in the Scottish Borders.
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D.
Ranulf Flambard
Ranulf Flambard was an influential Anglo-Norman royal administrator and Bishop of Durham under William II of England, known for his aggressive financial policies and role in strengthening royal authority.
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E.
Aymer de Valence
Aymer de Valence was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and military commander who played a key role in Edward I and Edward II’s campaigns in Scotland during the early 14th century.
- 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: Robert de Vaux Target entity description: Robert de Vaux was a medieval English nobleman known for his role as a landholder and religious patron in Norfolk.
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A.
Walter de Stapledon
Walter de Stapledon was a 14th-century English bishop of Exeter and royal administrator who played a significant role in both church and state during the reign of Edward II.
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B.
William de Tracy
William de Tracy was a 12th-century English knight best known as one of the four assassins of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170.
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C.
William de Soulis
William de Soulis was a notorious 14th-century Scottish noble and alleged traitor, historically linked with dark legends and the ownership of Hermitage Castle in the Scottish Borders.
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D.
Ranulf Flambard
Ranulf Flambard was an influential Anglo-Norman royal administrator and Bishop of Durham under William II of England, known for his aggressive financial policies and role in strengthening royal authority.
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E.
Aymer de Valence
Aymer de Valence was an Anglo-Norman nobleman and military commander who played a key role in Edward I and Edward II’s campaigns in Scotland during the early 14th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | medieval English nobleman ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| knownFor |
landholding in Norfolk
ⓘ
religious patronage in Norfolk ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | de Vaux family ⓘ |
| occupation |
landholder
ⓘ
nobleman ⓘ |
| religiousPatronageLocation | Norfolk ⓘ |
| residence | Norfolk ⓘ |
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: Robert de Vaux Description of subject: Robert de Vaux was a medieval English nobleman known for his role as a landholder and religious patron in Norfolk.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.