Edmund the Martyr, king of East Anglia

E114843

Anglo-Saxon king Christian saint King of East Anglia martyr

Edmund the Martyr, king of East Anglia, was a 9th-century Anglo-Saxon ruler venerated as a Christian saint after being killed by Viking invaders.

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All labels observed (4)

Label	Occurrences
Saint Edmund	8
Edmund the Martyr	2
Saint Edmund the Martyr	2
Edmund the Martyr, king of East Anglia canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T975334 — 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: Edmund the Martyr, king of East Anglia
Context triple: [Edmund, historicallyBorneBy, Edmund the Martyr, king of East Anglia]

A. Saint Richard of Chichester
Saint Richard of Chichester was a 13th-century English bishop renowned for his piety, reform of clerical life, and the popular prayer attributed to him.
B. Edward the Exile
Edward the Exile was an Anglo-Saxon prince of the House of Wessex and heir to the English throne who spent most of his life in exile before briefly returning to England shortly before his death.
C. Saint Baldred of Tyninghame
Saint Baldred of Tyninghame was an early medieval Northumbrian hermit and missionary revered as a Christian saint and patron of the East Lothian coast in Scotland.
D. Edward the Confessor
Edward the Confessor was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon king of England whose pious reign and later canonization made him one of the last and most revered pre-Norman English monarchs.
E. Edmund Ironside
Edmund Ironside was a short-reigned but renowned English king in 1016, celebrated for his fierce resistance against Danish invasion under Cnut the Great.
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: Edmund the Martyr, king of East Anglia
Target entity description: Edmund the Martyr, king of East Anglia, was a 9th-century Anglo-Saxon ruler venerated as a Christian saint after being killed by Viking invaders.

A. Saint Richard of Chichester
Saint Richard of Chichester was a 13th-century English bishop renowned for his piety, reform of clerical life, and the popular prayer attributed to him.
B. Edward the Exile
Edward the Exile was an Anglo-Saxon prince of the House of Wessex and heir to the English throne who spent most of his life in exile before briefly returning to England shortly before his death.
C. Saint Baldred of Tyninghame
Saint Baldred of Tyninghame was an early medieval Northumbrian hermit and missionary revered as a Christian saint and patron of the East Lothian coast in Scotland.
D. Edward the Confessor
Edward the Confessor was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon king of England whose pious reign and later canonization made him one of the last and most revered pre-Norman English monarchs.
E. Edmund Ironside
Edmund Ironside was a short-reigned but renowned English king in 1016, celebrated for his fierce resistance against Danish invasion under Cnut the Great.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Anglo-Saxon king ⓘ Christian saint ⓘ King of East Anglia ⓘ martyr ⓘ
associatedWith	Bury St Edmunds ⓘ Bury St Edmunds Abbey ruins ⓘ surface form: Bury St Edmunds Abbey
burialPlace	Bury St Edmunds ⓘ England ⓘ Suffolk ⓘ
centuryOfActivity	9th century ⓘ
commemoratedBy	churches dedicated to Saint Edmund ⓘ
commemoratedIn	Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (as a historical figure) ⓘ medieval English hagiographies ⓘ
conflict	Viking invasions of England ⓘ
countryRuled	Kingdom of the East Angles ⓘ surface form: Kingdom of East Anglia
cultDeveloped	10th century ⓘ
culture	Anglo-Saxon ⓘ
deathCause	killed by Viking invaders ⓘ
deathDate	869 ⓘ circa 869 ⓘ
deathPlace	East Anglia ⓘ England ⓘ
denomination	Western Christianity ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Saxons ⓘ surface form: Anglo-Saxons
feastDay	20 November ⓘ
hasCultCentre	Bury St Edmunds ⓘ
hasLegend	being tied to a tree and shot with arrows ⓘ decapitation by Vikings ⓘ refusal to renounce Christianity before Vikings ⓘ
honorificTitle	Edmund the Martyr, king of East Anglia self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Saint Edmund
languageOfEnvironment	Old English ⓘ
mannerOfDeath	martyrdom ⓘ
notableFor	being killed by Vikings for his Christian faith ⓘ being venerated as a royal martyr ⓘ
partOf	Heptarchy ⓘ surface form: Heptarchy of Anglo-Saxon England
patronage	Anglo-Saxon England ⓘ surface form: England (medieval) kings ⓘ
positionHeld	King of East Anglia ⓘ
regionOfRule	East Anglia ⓘ
religion	Christianity ⓘ
successorAsRoyalPatronSaintOfEngland	Saint George of Lydda ⓘ surface form: Saint George
title	King and Martyr ⓘ
veneratedIn	Anglican Communion ⓘ Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ surface form: Eastern Orthodox Church Lutheranism ⓘ surface form: Lutheran Church Roman Catholicism ⓘ surface form: Roman Catholic Church

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (13)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Edmund → historicallyBorneBy → Edmund the Martyr, king of East Anglia ⓘ

Diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich → patronSaint → Edmund the Martyr, king of East Anglia ⓘ

this entity surface form: Saint Edmund the Martyr

Emneth → parishChurchDedication → Edmund the Martyr, king of East Anglia ⓘ