Robert II of Leicester
E489712
Robert II of Leicester was a 12th-century English nobleman and military leader who played a prominent role in the Third Crusade under King Richard I.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert II of Leicester canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5058937 — 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 II of Leicester Context triple: [Battle of Arsuf (1191), commander, Robert II of Leicester]
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A.
Guy de Balliol
Guy de Balliol was a medieval Anglo-Norman nobleman of the Balliol family, known primarily as an early member of the dynasty that later produced King John Balliol of Scotland.
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B.
Richard of Dover
Richard of Dover was a 12th-century English Benedictine monk who became Archbishop of Canterbury following the martyrdom of Thomas Becket.
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C.
Hugh de Balliol
Hugh de Balliol was a 13th-century Anglo-Scottish nobleman of the influential Balliol family, known for his role in the turbulent politics between England and Scotland.
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D.
Hugh of Lincoln
Hugh of Lincoln was a 12th-century Carthusian monk and Bishop of Lincoln renowned for his piety, reforming zeal, and later veneration as a saint in the Catholic Church.
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E.
John of Cornwall
John of Cornwall was a 13th-century English nobleman, the son of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, and a member of the Plantagenet royal family.
- 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 II of Leicester Target entity description: Robert II of Leicester was a 12th-century English nobleman and military leader who played a prominent role in the Third Crusade under King Richard I.
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A.
Guy de Balliol
Guy de Balliol was a medieval Anglo-Norman nobleman of the Balliol family, known primarily as an early member of the dynasty that later produced King John Balliol of Scotland.
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B.
Richard of Dover
Richard of Dover was a 12th-century English Benedictine monk who became Archbishop of Canterbury following the martyrdom of Thomas Becket.
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C.
Hugh de Balliol
Hugh de Balliol was a 13th-century Anglo-Scottish nobleman of the influential Balliol family, known for his role in the turbulent politics between England and Scotland.
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D.
Hugh of Lincoln
Hugh of Lincoln was a 12th-century Carthusian monk and Bishop of Lincoln renowned for his piety, reforming zeal, and later veneration as a saint in the Catholic Church.
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E.
John of Cornwall
John of Cornwall was a 13th-century English nobleman, the son of Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, and a member of the Plantagenet royal family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English nobleman
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military leader ⓘ nobleman ⓘ |
| aristocraticTitle | peer of the realm ⓘ |
| category | 12th-century English nobility ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 12th century ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| era | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| givenName | Robert ⓘ |
| historicalRegion | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Middle English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryAllegiance | Richard I of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| militaryRole | crusader leader ⓘ |
| monarchServed | Richard I of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Beaumont NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleRank | earl ⓘ |
| notableFor | role in the Third Crusade ⓘ |
| occupation |
military commander
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nobleman ⓘ |
| ordinal | II ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Third Crusade NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Earl of Leicester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholicism
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| residence | Leicester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Earl of Leicester 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: Robert II of Leicester Description of subject: Robert II of Leicester was a 12th-century English nobleman and military leader who played a prominent role in the Third Crusade under King Richard I.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.