Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York
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Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York was an English nobleman, military commander, and prominent figure in the late 14th and early 15th centuries who was killed fighting for the Lancastrians at the Battle of Agincourt.
All labels observed (1)
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| Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York canonical | 8 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3353346 — 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: Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York Context triple: [Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, child, Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York]
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A.
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, was a 14th-century English prince and nobleman who founded the House of York, a key dynasty in the Wars of the Roses.
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B.
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York was a key 15th-century English noble and claimant to the throne whose dynastic struggle with the Lancastrians helped ignite the Wars of the Roses and paved the way for the Yorkist kings.
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C.
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.
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D.
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Bedford
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Bedford, was a short-lived English royal prince of the House of York, born posthumously to George, Duke of Clarence, and thus a nephew of King Edward IV and cousin to Edward V.
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E.
Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster
Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster was a prominent 14th-century English nobleman and royal cousin who played a key role in the politics of Edward II and Edward III’s reigns, notably in the opposition to Edward II and the early governance of Edward III.
- 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: Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York Target entity description: Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York was an English nobleman, military commander, and prominent figure in the late 14th and early 15th centuries who was killed fighting for the Lancastrians at the Battle of Agincourt.
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A.
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York
Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, was a 14th-century English prince and nobleman who founded the House of York, a key dynasty in the Wars of the Roses.
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B.
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York
Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York was a key 15th-century English noble and claimant to the throne whose dynastic struggle with the Lancastrians helped ignite the Wars of the Roses and paved the way for the Yorkist kings.
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C.
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.
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D.
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Bedford
George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Bedford, was a short-lived English royal prince of the House of York, born posthumously to George, Duke of Clarence, and thus a nephew of King Edward IV and cousin to Edward V.
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E.
Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster
Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster was a prominent 14th-century English nobleman and royal cousin who played a key role in the politics of Edward II and Edward III’s reigns, notably in the opposition to Edward II and the early governance of Edward III.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
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: Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York Description of subject: Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York was an English nobleman, military commander, and prominent figure in the late 14th and early 15th centuries who was killed fighting for the Lancastrians at the Battle of Agincourt.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.