Ursula Stawell
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Ursula Stawell was an English noblewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who became Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby through her marriage to John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Ursula Stawell canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3463644 — 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: Ursula Stawell Context triple: [John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby, spouse, Ursula Stawell]
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A.
Ursula Howells
Ursula Howells was a British actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre during the mid-20th century.
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B.
Patricia Dainton
Patricia Dainton was a British film and television actress known for her roles in 1950s and 1960s thrillers and dramas.
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C.
Stella Oleson
Stella Oleson is a resilient survivor and vampire hunter who battles the undead during a month-long polar night in the horror franchise "30 Days of Night."
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D.
Carol Stevens
Carol Stevens is best known as one of the former wives of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer.
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E.
Ursula Wood
Ursula Wood was an English poet and writer best known as the second wife and later biographer of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
- 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: Ursula Stawell Target entity description: Ursula Stawell was an English noblewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who became Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby through her marriage to John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby.
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A.
Ursula Howells
Ursula Howells was a British actress known for her work in film, television, and theatre during the mid-20th century.
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B.
Patricia Dainton
Patricia Dainton was a British film and television actress known for her roles in 1950s and 1960s thrillers and dramas.
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C.
Stella Oleson
Stella Oleson is a resilient survivor and vampire hunter who battles the undead during a month-long polar night in the horror franchise "30 Days of Night."
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D.
Carol Stevens
Carol Stevens is best known as one of the former wives of American novelist and journalist Norman Mailer.
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E.
Ursula Wood
Ursula Wood was an English poet and writer best known as the second wife and later biographer of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English noblewoman
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duchess ⓘ |
| aristocraticContext | English peerage ⓘ |
| aristocraticStatus | peeress of England ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| familyName | Stawell ⓘ |
| givenName | Ursula ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| languageOfExpression | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| nobleRank | duchess ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Duchess of Buckingham
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Duchess of Normanby ⓘ |
| notableFor | being Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| spouse | John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby ⓘ |
| spouseCountryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| spouseNobleRank | duke ⓘ |
| spouseTitle |
John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
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surface form:
1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby
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| timePeriod |
early 18th century
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late 17th century ⓘ |
| titleHeldThrough | marriage to John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby ⓘ |
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: Ursula Stawell Description of subject: Ursula Stawell was an English noblewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries who became Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby through her marriage to John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.