de Warenne family
E451905
The de Warenne family was a powerful Anglo-Norman noble dynasty that held the Earldom of Surrey and extensive lands in medieval England.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| de Warenne family canonical | 4 |
| House of Warenne | 1 |
| de Warenne | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T4551779 — 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: de Warenne family Context triple: [Reigate Castle ruins, builtFor, de Warenne family]
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A.
FitzWalter family
The FitzWalter family is a prominent English noble lineage best known for its medieval barons, including Robert Fitzwalter, a leading opponent of King John and a key figure in the events surrounding Magna Carta.
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B.
House of Courtenay
The House of Courtenay was a prominent medieval French noble family that produced Latin emperors of Constantinople and held significant influence in European aristocratic and crusader politics.
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C.
Warwick family
The Warwick family is a familial lineage or household to which Mancel Warrick belongs.
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D.
Doukas dynasty
The Doukas dynasty was a Byzantine imperial family that ruled the Eastern Roman Empire in the 11th century, noted for its role in the empire’s political and military decline before the Komnenian restoration.
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E.
House of Normandy
The House of Normandy was a medieval European royal dynasty of Norman origin that ruled England and parts of France following the Norman Conquest of 1066.
- 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: de Warenne family Target entity description: The de Warenne family was a powerful Anglo-Norman noble dynasty that held the Earldom of Surrey and extensive lands in medieval England.
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A.
FitzWalter family
The FitzWalter family is a prominent English noble lineage best known for its medieval barons, including Robert Fitzwalter, a leading opponent of King John and a key figure in the events surrounding Magna Carta.
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B.
House of Courtenay
The House of Courtenay was a prominent medieval French noble family that produced Latin emperors of Constantinople and held significant influence in European aristocratic and crusader politics.
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C.
Warwick family
The Warwick family is a familial lineage or household to which Mancel Warrick belongs.
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D.
Doukas dynasty
The Doukas dynasty was a Byzantine imperial family that ruled the Eastern Roman Empire in the 11th century, noted for its role in the empire’s political and military decline before the Komnenian restoration.
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E.
House of Normandy
The House of Normandy was a medieval European royal dynasty of Norman origin that ruled England and parts of France following the Norman Conquest of 1066.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Anglo-Norman dynasty
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noble family ⓘ |
| activeInPeriod |
11th century
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12th century ⓘ 13th century ⓘ 14th century ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Battle of Lewes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| builtOrControlled |
Conisbrough Castle
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lewes Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ Reigate Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coatOfArms | Checky or and azure ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ethnicComposition | Norman ⓘ |
| feudalStatus | tenant-in-chief of the Crown ⓘ |
| founder | William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldEarldom | Earldom of Surrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldLandsIn |
Conisbrough
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Kent NERFINISHED ⓘ Lewes NERFINISHED ⓘ Norfolk NERFINISHED ⓘ Reigate NERFINISHED ⓘ Suffolk NERFINISHED ⓘ Surrey NERFINISHED ⓘ Sussex NERFINISHED ⓘ Yorkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| influencedRegion |
Surrey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Sussex NERFINISHED ⓘ Yorkshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfFamily | Norman French NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| laterIntegratedInto | English nobility ⓘ |
| lostMaleLine | 14th century ⓘ |
| nobleRank | earl ⓘ |
| notableMember |
Isabel de Warenne, Countess of Surrey
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
John de Warenne, 6th Earl of Surrey NERFINISHED ⓘ William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey NERFINISHED ⓘ William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey NERFINISHED ⓘ William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableTitleHeld | Earl of Surrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| originToponym | Varenne (Seine-Maritime) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Norman Conquest of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| receivedLandsFrom | William the Conqueror NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
England
NERFINISHED
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Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religiousPatronage |
Lewes Priory
NERFINISHED
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St Pancras Priory, Lewes NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | high nobility ⓘ |
| supportedRuler | William the Conqueror NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleExtinguishedOrMerged | Earldom of Surrey NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| vassalOf | King of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: de Warenne family Description of subject: The de Warenne family was a powerful Anglo-Norman noble dynasty that held the Earldom of Surrey and extensive lands in medieval England.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
de Warenne
this entity surface form:
House of Warenne