Prince John of Lancaster
E302853
Prince John of Lancaster is a historical English royal and military leader, notably depicted in Shakespeare’s history plays as a shrewd and disciplined son of King Henry IV.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Prince John | 1 |
| Prince John of Lancaster canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2853992 — 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: Prince John of Lancaster Context triple: [Henry IV, Part 2, principalCharacter, Prince John of Lancaster]
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Prince John
Prince John is the power-hungry royal antagonist in the Robin Hood legends, often depicted as the usurping ruler of England who exploits his subjects through oppressive taxation.
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Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence
Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, was a 14th-century English prince and nobleman whose lineage played a key role in the later Wars of the Roses through the Yorkist claim to the throne.
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Edmund of Lancaster
Edmund of Lancaster was a 13th-century English prince, son of King Henry III, who became a powerful nobleman and military leader as Earl of Lancaster and Leicester.
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John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall
John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, was a 14th-century English prince, the second son of King Edward II and Isabella of France, who played a notable military role in the early stages of the Hundred Years’ War before his early death.
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Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, was a prominent 14th-century English prince and political figure who played a leading role in opposition to the government of his nephew, King Richard II.
- 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: Prince John of Lancaster Target entity description: Prince John of Lancaster is a historical English royal and military leader, notably depicted in Shakespeare’s history plays as a shrewd and disciplined son of King Henry IV.
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A.
Prince John
Prince John is the power-hungry royal antagonist in the Robin Hood legends, often depicted as the usurping ruler of England who exploits his subjects through oppressive taxation.
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B.
Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence
Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, was a 14th-century English prince and nobleman whose lineage played a key role in the later Wars of the Roses through the Yorkist claim to the throne.
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C.
Edmund of Lancaster
Edmund of Lancaster was a 13th-century English prince, son of King Henry III, who became a powerful nobleman and military leader as Earl of Lancaster and Leicester.
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D.
John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall
John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall, was a 14th-century English prince, the second son of King Edward II and Isabella of France, who played a notable military role in the early stages of the Hundred Years’ War before his early death.
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E.
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester
Thomas of Woodstock, 1st Duke of Gloucester, was a prominent 14th-century English prince and political figure who played a leading role in opposition to the government of his nephew, King Richard II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: Prince John of Lancaster Description of subject: Prince John of Lancaster is a historical English royal and military leader, notably depicted in Shakespeare’s history plays as a shrewd and disciplined son of King Henry IV.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Prince John