Reginald of Durham
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Reginald of Durham was a 12th-century English Benedictine monk and hagiographer best known for writing the Latin Life of Saint Godric of Finchale.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Reginald of Durham canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10728007 — 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: Reginald of Durham Context triple: [Godric, hasCharacter, Reginald of Durham]
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A.
Walter of Durham
Walter of Durham was a 13th-century English royal painter and craftsman known for his work on the decoration of Westminster Palace and Westminster Abbey.
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B.
Earl Gospatric
Earl Gospatric was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon noble and Earl of Northumbria who resisted William the Conqueror’s rule in northern England.
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C.
Alan Rufus
Alan Rufus, also known as Alan the Red, was an 11th-century Breton nobleman and companion of William the Conqueror who became one of the wealthiest landholders in Norman England.
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D.
Aldhun of Durham
Aldhun of Durham was an early medieval English bishop who oversaw the transfer of the Northumbrian see from Chester-le-Street to Durham and helped establish Durham as a major ecclesiastical center.
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E.
William of Durham
William of Durham was a 13th-century English cleric and benefactor best known for endowing the funds that led to the creation of University College, Oxford, one of the university’s oldest colleges.
- 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: Reginald of Durham Target entity description: Reginald of Durham was a 12th-century English Benedictine monk and hagiographer best known for writing the Latin Life of Saint Godric of Finchale.
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A.
Walter of Durham
Walter of Durham was a 13th-century English royal painter and craftsman known for his work on the decoration of Westminster Palace and Westminster Abbey.
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B.
Earl Gospatric
Earl Gospatric was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon noble and Earl of Northumbria who resisted William the Conqueror’s rule in northern England.
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C.
Alan Rufus
Alan Rufus, also known as Alan the Red, was an 11th-century Breton nobleman and companion of William the Conqueror who became one of the wealthiest landholders in Norman England.
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D.
Aldhun of Durham
Aldhun of Durham was an early medieval English bishop who oversaw the transfer of the Northumbrian see from Chester-le-Street to Durham and helped establish Durham as a major ecclesiastical center.
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E.
William of Durham
William of Durham was a 13th-century English cleric and benefactor best known for endowing the funds that led to the creation of University College, Oxford, one of the university’s oldest colleges.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (26)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
12th-century English person
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Benedictine monk ⓘ hagiographer ⓘ medieval writer ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Durham Cathedral
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Finchale Priory ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 12th century ⓘ |
| clergyStatus | monk ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| employer |
Durham Cathedral Priory
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linked to:
Durham Cathedral
|
| era | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| genre |
hagiography
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religious biography ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Latin
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Middle English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
Benedictine Order
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linked to:
Benedictines
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| notableWork |
Life of Saint Godric of Finchale
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Vita S. Godrici ⓘ |
| occupation |
Benedictine monk
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author ⓘ hagiographer ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | County Durham ⓘ |
| religion | Christianity ⓘ |
| religiousOrder | Benedictines ⓘ |
| workLocation | Durham ⓘ |
| wroteAbout | Godric of Finchale ⓘ |
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: Reginald of Durham Description of subject: Reginald of Durham was a 12th-century English Benedictine monk and hagiographer best known for writing the Latin Life of Saint Godric of Finchale.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.