Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester
E403981
Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester was a powerful 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader, best known as a key supporter of Empress Matilda during the civil war known as The Anarchy.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester canonical | 8 |
| 1st Earl of Gloucester | 1 |
| Robert, Earl of Gloucester | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3990119 — 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, 1st Earl of Gloucester Context triple: [Sybil, illegitimate daughter of Henry I of England, relative, Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester]
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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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B.
William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester
William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, was a prominent 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and feudal magnate who held extensive lands in England and Wales and played a significant role in the politics of the reigns of Kings Stephen and Henry II.
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C.
William Douglas, 2nd Earl of March
William Douglas, 2nd Earl of March, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician from the influential Douglas family, whose titles and estates later passed to his son, the 4th Duke of Queensberry.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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, 1st Earl of Gloucester Target entity description: Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester was a powerful 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader, best known as a key supporter of Empress Matilda during the civil war known as The Anarchy.
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A.
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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B.
William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester
William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, was a prominent 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and feudal magnate who held extensive lands in England and Wales and played a significant role in the politics of the reigns of Kings Stephen and Henry II.
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C.
William Douglas, 2nd Earl of March
William Douglas, 2nd Earl of March, was an 18th-century Scottish nobleman and politician from the influential Douglas family, whose titles and estates later passed to his son, the 4th Duke of Queensberry.
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D.
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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E.
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.
- 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, 1st Earl of Gloucester Description of subject: Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester was a powerful 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader, best known as a key supporter of Empress Matilda during the civil war known as The Anarchy.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Robert, Earl of Gloucester
this entity surface form:
1st Earl of Gloucester