Joan FitzAlan
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Joan FitzAlan was an English noblewoman of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, a member of the powerful FitzAlan family closely connected to the English royal court.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Joan FitzAlan canonical | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T12838130 — 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: Joan FitzAlan Context triple: [Eleanor de Bohun, mother, Joan FitzAlan]
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A.
Alice FitzAlan
Alice FitzAlan was an English noblewoman of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, a member of the influential FitzAlan family connected to the Earls of Arundel.
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B.
Margaret de Clare
Margaret de Clare was an English noblewoman of the late 13th and early 14th centuries, notable as a member of the powerful de Clare family and through her politically significant marriages into the English aristocracy.
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C.
Elizabeth de Clare
Elizabeth de Clare was a 14th-century English noblewoman and wealthy heiress whose endowment helped found and shape Clare College at the University of Cambridge.
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D.
Eleanor de Clare
Eleanor de Clare was a prominent 14th-century English noblewoman and heiress, granddaughter of King Edward I, whose marriages and estates made her a significant figure in the politics of Edward II’s reign.
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E.
Maud de Lacy, Countess of Gloucester
Maud de Lacy, Countess of Gloucester, was a prominent 13th-century English noblewoman from the powerful de Lacy family, noted for her extensive estates, influential marriages, and role in the politics of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy.
- 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: Joan FitzAlan Target entity description: Joan FitzAlan was an English noblewoman of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, a member of the powerful FitzAlan family closely connected to the English royal court.
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A.
Alice FitzAlan
Alice FitzAlan was an English noblewoman of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, a member of the influential FitzAlan family connected to the Earls of Arundel.
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B.
Margaret de Clare
Margaret de Clare was an English noblewoman of the late 13th and early 14th centuries, notable as a member of the powerful de Clare family and through her politically significant marriages into the English aristocracy.
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C.
Elizabeth de Clare
Elizabeth de Clare was a 14th-century English noblewoman and wealthy heiress whose endowment helped found and shape Clare College at the University of Cambridge.
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D.
Eleanor de Clare
Eleanor de Clare was a prominent 14th-century English noblewoman and heiress, granddaughter of King Edward I, whose marriages and estates made her a significant figure in the politics of Edward II’s reign.
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E.
Maud de Lacy, Countess of Gloucester
Maud de Lacy, Countess of Gloucester, was a prominent 13th-century English noblewoman from the powerful de Lacy family, noted for her extensive estates, influential marriages, and role in the politics of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English noblewoman
ⓘ
medieval noble ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
early 15th century
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late 14th century ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Walden Abbey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child |
Anne de Bohun
NERFINISHED
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Eleanor de Bohun, Duchess of Gloucester NERFINISHED ⓘ Humphrey de Bohun (son of Joan FitzAlan) NERFINISHED ⓘ Isabel de Bohun NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary de Bohun NERFINISHED ⓘ William de Bohun (died young) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| connectedTo | English royal court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | circa 1347 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 7 April 1419 ⓘ |
| era | Late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | FitzAlan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Joan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | Middle English ⓘ |
| memberOf | FitzAlan family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Eleanor of Lancaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | FitzAlan NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Countess of Essex
NERFINISHED
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Countess of Hereford NERFINISHED ⓘ Countess of Northampton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFamilyConnection |
House of Bohun
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
House of Lancaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Arundel, Sussex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Pleshey, Essex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Countess of Essex
NERFINISHED
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Countess of Hereford NERFINISHED ⓘ Countess of Northampton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Henry Bolingbroke
NERFINISHED
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Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford NERFINISHED ⓘ King Henry IV of England NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Arundel Castle
NERFINISHED
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Pleshey Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| sibling |
Alice FitzAlan, Countess of Kent
NERFINISHED
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John FitzAlan, 1st Baron Arundel NERFINISHED ⓘ Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | high nobility ⓘ |
| spouse | Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Joan FitzAlan Description of subject: Joan FitzAlan was an English noblewoman of the late 14th and early 15th centuries, a member of the powerful FitzAlan family closely connected to the English royal court.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.