Blanche Swynford
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Blanche Swynford was a medieval English noblewoman, known primarily as the daughter of Katherine Swynford, the influential mistress and later wife of John of Gaunt.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Blanche Swynford canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11648850 — 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: Blanche Swynford Context triple: [Katherine Swynford, child, Blanche Swynford]
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A.
Katherine Swynford
Katherine Swynford was the longtime mistress and later third wife of John of Gaunt, whose legitimized Beaufort children became influential ancestors of the English royal House of Tudor.
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B.
Margery Seymour
Margery Seymour was a member of the prominent Seymour family of Tudor England, related to the courtly circle that produced Jane Seymour, third wife of King Henry VIII.
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C.
Margery Spencer
Margery Spencer was the wife of British politician Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood, who served as Chief Secretary for Ireland during the Irish War of Independence.
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D.
Margery Durant
Margery Durant was an American author and socialite best known for her memoir about her father, General Motors founder William C. Durant, and for her involvement in early 20th-century automotive and aviation culture.
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E.
Rosamund Mortimer
Rosamund Mortimer is a member of the Mortimer family and the sister of British actress and screenwriter Emily Mortimer.
- 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: Blanche Swynford Target entity description: Blanche Swynford was a medieval English noblewoman, known primarily as the daughter of Katherine Swynford, the influential mistress and later wife of John of Gaunt.
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A.
Katherine Swynford
Katherine Swynford was the longtime mistress and later third wife of John of Gaunt, whose legitimized Beaufort children became influential ancestors of the English royal House of Tudor.
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B.
Margery Seymour
Margery Seymour was a member of the prominent Seymour family of Tudor England, related to the courtly circle that produced Jane Seymour, third wife of King Henry VIII.
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C.
Margery Spencer
Margery Spencer was the wife of British politician Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood, who served as Chief Secretary for Ireland during the Irish War of Independence.
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D.
Margery Durant
Margery Durant was an American author and socialite best known for her memoir about her father, General Motors founder William C. Durant, and for her involvement in early 20th-century automotive and aviation culture.
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E.
Rosamund Mortimer
Rosamund Mortimer is a member of the Mortimer family and the sister of British actress and screenwriter Emily Mortimer.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical person
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medieval English noblewoman ⓘ |
| associatedWith | House of Lancaster ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| era | 14th century ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Swynford ⓘ |
| father | unknown ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Blanche ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Middle English ⓘ |
| lifeStatus | deceased ⓘ |
| mother | Katherine Swynford ⓘ |
| motherOccupation |
duchess consort of Lancaster
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royal mistress ⓘ |
| motherSpouse | John of Gaunt ⓘ |
| motherTitle | Duchess of Lancaster ⓘ |
| notableFor |
association with the household of John of Gaunt
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being the daughter of Katherine Swynford ⓘ |
| region | England ⓘ |
| relative | John of Gaunt ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Middle Ages ⓘ |
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: Blanche Swynford Description of subject: Blanche Swynford was a medieval English noblewoman, known primarily as the daughter of Katherine Swynford, the influential mistress and later wife of John of Gaunt.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.