John de la Pole
E304818
John de la Pole was a 15th-century English nobleman of the influential de la Pole family, connected by marriage to the Lancastrian royal line.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln | 3 |
| John de la Pole canonical | 1 |
| John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln | 1 |
| John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2847204 — 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: John de la Pole Context triple: [Margaret Beaufort, spouse, John de la Pole]
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A.
John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset
John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, was an English nobleman and legitimized son of John of Gaunt whose descendants played a key role in the Wars of the Roses and the rise of the Tudor dynasty.
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B.
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, was an English nobleman, soldier, and patron of learning in the late 15th century, noted for his influence at the Yorkist court and his role in the turbulent politics surrounding the Wars of the Roses.
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C.
Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset
Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset, was a short-lived English prince of the early Tudor dynasty, known primarily as the younger son of King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York.
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D.
Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter
Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, was an early 15th-century English nobleman, military commander, and half-uncle of King Henry V who played a prominent role in the Hundred Years’ War and royal government.
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E.
Sir John Woodville
Sir John Woodville was an English nobleman of the influential Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses in the 15th century.
- 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: John de la Pole Target entity description: John de la Pole was a 15th-century English nobleman of the influential de la Pole family, connected by marriage to the Lancastrian royal line.
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A.
John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset
John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, was an English nobleman and legitimized son of John of Gaunt whose descendants played a key role in the Wars of the Roses and the rise of the Tudor dynasty.
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B.
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers
Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, was an English nobleman, soldier, and patron of learning in the late 15th century, noted for his influence at the Yorkist court and his role in the turbulent politics surrounding the Wars of the Roses.
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C.
Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset
Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset, was a short-lived English prince of the early Tudor dynasty, known primarily as the younger son of King Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York.
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D.
Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter
Thomas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter, was an early 15th-century English nobleman, military commander, and half-uncle of King Henry V who played a prominent role in the Hundred Years’ War and royal government.
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E.
Sir John Woodville
Sir John Woodville was an English nobleman of the influential Woodville family during the Wars of the Roses in the 15th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English nobleman
ⓘ
human ⓘ |
| aristocraticTitle | Earl ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
English aristocracy
ⓘ
Wars of the Roses ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 15th century ⓘ |
| connectedTo |
House of Lancaster
ⓘ
House of Lancaster ⓘ
surface form:
Lancastrian royal line
|
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English ⓘ |
| familyName | de la Pole ⓘ |
| givenName | John ⓘ |
| hasHeritage | noble lineage ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Middle English ⓘ |
| memberOf |
House of de la Pole
ⓘ
surface form:
de la Pole family
|
| nobleFamily |
House of de la Pole
ⓘ
surface form:
de la Pole family
|
| notableFamilyConnection | English royal family ⓘ |
| partOf | English peerage ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Earl of Suffolk ⓘ |
| region | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| socialStatus | high nobility ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Late Middle Ages ⓘ |
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: John de la Pole Description of subject: John de la Pole was a 15th-century English nobleman of the influential de la Pole family, connected by marriage to the Lancastrian royal line.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln
this entity surface form:
John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln
this entity surface form:
John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln
this entity surface form:
John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk
this entity surface form:
John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln