Maud Bigod
E142732
Maud Bigod was a 12th-century English noblewoman of the powerful Bigod family, notable as the mother of William d’Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Maud Bigod canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T963954 — 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: Maud Bigod Context triple: [William d’Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel, mother, Maud Bigod]
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Eleanor Bold
Eleanor Bold is a central character in Anthony Trollope's novel "Barchester Towers," known as a young, independent widow whose romantic choices and moral integrity drive much of the story's social and clerical drama.
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B.
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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C.
Eleanor of England, Countess of Pembroke
Eleanor of England, Countess of Pembroke, was a 13th-century English princess and noblewoman who, through her influential marriage to William Marshal the Younger, became a prominent figure in the politics and aristocracy of the Angevin realm.
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D.
Ermengarde de Beaumont
Ermengarde de Beaumont was a 13th-century Queen of Scotland as the wife of King William I and the mother of King Alexander II.
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E.
Mary of Waltham, Duchess of Brittany
Mary of Waltham, Duchess of Brittany, was a 14th-century English princess, daughter of King Edward III, who became duchess through her marriage to John IV, Duke of Brittany.
- 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: Maud Bigod Target entity description: Maud Bigod was a 12th-century English noblewoman of the powerful Bigod family, notable as the mother of William d’Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel.
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A.
Eleanor Bold
Eleanor Bold is a central character in Anthony Trollope's novel "Barchester Towers," known as a young, independent widow whose romantic choices and moral integrity drive much of the story's social and clerical drama.
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B.
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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C.
Eleanor of England, Countess of Pembroke
Eleanor of England, Countess of Pembroke, was a 13th-century English princess and noblewoman who, through her influential marriage to William Marshal the Younger, became a prominent figure in the politics and aristocracy of the Angevin realm.
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D.
Ermengarde de Beaumont
Ermengarde de Beaumont was a 13th-century Queen of Scotland as the wife of King William I and the mother of King Alexander II.
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E.
Mary of Waltham, Duchess of Brittany
Mary of Waltham, Duchess of Brittany, was a 14th-century English princess, daughter of King Edward III, who became duchess through her marriage to John IV, Duke of Brittany.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (24)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
medieval English noble
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noblewoman ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 12th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | Bigod ⓘ |
| floruit | 12th century ⓘ |
| givenName | Maud ⓘ |
| hasAncestor | Bigod family lineage ⓘ |
| historicalEra | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| languageUsed |
Latin
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Middle English ⓘ |
| memberOf | Bigod family ⓘ |
| motherOf | William d’Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel ⓘ |
| nobleRank | noblewoman ⓘ |
| notableFamily | Bigod family ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being the mother of William d’Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel
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belonging to the powerful Bigod family ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | England ⓘ |
| region | England ⓘ |
| relative | William d’Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| timePeriod | 12th century ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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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: Maud Bigod Description of subject: Maud Bigod was a 12th-century English noblewoman of the powerful Bigod family, notable as the mother of William d’Aubigny, 1st Earl of Arundel.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.