Lord Poynings
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Lord Poynings is an English noble title historically associated with the medieval Poynings family and later held by prominent aristocratic houses such as the Percys.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lord Poynings canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T13340667 — 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: Lord Poynings Context triple: [Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, heldTitle, Lord Poynings]
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A.
Edward Poynings
Edward Poynings was a late 15th-century English statesman and Lord Deputy of Ireland best known for initiating Poynings' Law, which placed the Irish Parliament under tighter English control.
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B.
Richard de la Pole
Richard de la Pole was a Yorkist pretender to the English throne and the last serious claimant of the House of York, who spent much of his life in exile seeking foreign support against the Tudor monarchy.
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C.
Humphrey de la Pole
Humphrey de la Pole was a lesser-known English nobleman of the late 15th century, notable primarily as a younger son of the influential Yorkist noble family headed by Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk.
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D.
Robert Cromwell
Robert Cromwell was an English country gentleman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, best known as the father of Oliver Cromwell, the future Lord Protector of England.
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E.
Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham
Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, was a powerful 15th-century English nobleman and military leader who played a prominent role in the early stages of the Wars of the Roses.
- 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: Lord Poynings Target entity description: Lord Poynings is an English noble title historically associated with the medieval Poynings family and later held by prominent aristocratic houses such as the Percys.
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A.
Edward Poynings
Edward Poynings was a late 15th-century English statesman and Lord Deputy of Ireland best known for initiating Poynings' Law, which placed the Irish Parliament under tighter English control.
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B.
Richard de la Pole
Richard de la Pole was a Yorkist pretender to the English throne and the last serious claimant of the House of York, who spent much of his life in exile seeking foreign support against the Tudor monarchy.
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C.
Humphrey de la Pole
Humphrey de la Pole was a lesser-known English nobleman of the late 15th century, notable primarily as a younger son of the influential Yorkist noble family headed by Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk.
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D.
Robert Cromwell
Robert Cromwell was an English country gentleman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, best known as the father of Oliver Cromwell, the future Lord Protector of England.
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E.
Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham
Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, was a powerful 15th-century English nobleman and military leader who played a prominent role in the early stages of the Wars of the Roses.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (15)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English noble title
ⓘ
peerage title ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Percy family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Poynings family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| heldBy |
Percy family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Poynings family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod | Middle Ages NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| laterHeldBy | Percy family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily |
Percy family
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Poynings family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originallyHeldBy | Poynings family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | England ⓘ |
| titleHolderClass | English nobility ⓘ |
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: Lord Poynings Description of subject: Lord Poynings is an English noble title historically associated with the medieval Poynings family and later held by prominent aristocratic houses such as the Percys.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.