Robert of Gloucester
E364073
Robert of Gloucester was a 12th-century English nobleman and military leader who played a central role in supporting Empress Matilda during the civil war known as The Anarchy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert of Gloucester canonical | 6 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3345617 — 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: Robert of Gloucester Context triple: [The Anarchy, significantPerson, Robert of Gloucester]
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A.
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester was a 15th-century English prince, statesman, and notable patron of humanist learning and literature.
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B.
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.
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C.
Prince John of Lancaster
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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D.
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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E.
Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York
Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York was the younger son of King Edward IV of England and one of the two "Princes in the Tower" whose mysterious disappearance has long intrigued historians.
- 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: Robert of Gloucester Target entity description: Robert of Gloucester was a 12th-century English nobleman and military leader who played a central role in supporting Empress Matilda during the civil war known as The Anarchy.
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A.
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester
Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester was a 15th-century English prince, statesman, and notable patron of humanist learning and literature.
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B.
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.
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C.
Prince John of Lancaster
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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D.
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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E.
Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York
Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York was the younger son of King Edward IV of England and one of the two "Princes in the Tower" whose mysterious disappearance has long intrigued historians.
- 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: Robert of Gloucester Description of subject: Robert of Gloucester was a 12th-century English nobleman and military leader who played a central role in supporting Empress Matilda during the civil war known as The Anarchy.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
The Anarchy