Everard Digby
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Everard Digby was an English Catholic conspirator best known for his role in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarchy.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Everard Digby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5454221 — 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: Everard Digby Context triple: [Gunpowder Plot, participant, Everard Digby]
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A.
Richard Bellingham
Richard Bellingham was a 17th-century colonial magistrate and politician who served multiple terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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B.
Edward Hyde
Edward Hyde is the violent, malevolent alter ego who embodies the dark side of Dr. Henry Jekyll’s personality in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde."
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C.
George Lumley
George Lumley is a character in Alfred Hitchcock’s darkly comic thriller "Family Plot," involved in the film’s intertwined mystery and crime plotlines.
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D.
Thomas Rainsborough
Thomas Rainsborough was a prominent English Civil War officer and leading Leveller figure known for advocating radical democratic reforms and greater political rights for common people.
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E.
William Orlamond
William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
- 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: Everard Digby Target entity description: Everard Digby was an English Catholic conspirator best known for his role in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarchy.
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A.
Richard Bellingham
Richard Bellingham was a 17th-century colonial magistrate and politician who served multiple terms as governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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B.
Edward Hyde
Edward Hyde is the violent, malevolent alter ego who embodies the dark side of Dr. Henry Jekyll’s personality in Robert Louis Stevenson’s novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde."
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C.
George Lumley
George Lumley is a character in Alfred Hitchcock’s darkly comic thriller "Family Plot," involved in the film’s intertwined mystery and crime plotlines.
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D.
Thomas Rainsborough
Thomas Rainsborough was a prominent English Civil War officer and leading Leveller figure known for advocating radical democratic reforms and greater political rights for common people.
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E.
William Orlamond
William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic conspirator
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English nobleman ⓘ person ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Catholic recusancy in England
NERFINISHED
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English Reformation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | c. 1578 ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| coConspirator |
Ambrose Rookwood
NERFINISHED
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Everard Digby (the younger is not applicable; this is the conspirator himself) NERFINISHED ⓘ Francis Tresham NERFINISHED ⓘ Guy Fawkes NERFINISHED ⓘ John Grant NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Catesby NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Wintour NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Bates NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Wintour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| convictedOf | high treason ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | England ⓘ |
| deathDate | 30 January 1606 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
London, England
ⓘ
surface form:
London
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| educatedAt | St John’s College, Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| executedBy | Kingdom of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Digby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Everard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| goal |
assassination of King James I of England
ⓘ
restoration of a Catholic monarchy in England ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Elizabethan era
NERFINISHED
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Jacobean era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| legacy | remembered as one of the principal Gunpowder Plot conspirators ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | hanged, drawn and quartered ⓘ |
| memberOf | English Catholic gentry ⓘ |
| monarchTargeted | James I of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Everard Digby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableEvent | Gunpowder Plot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | participation in the Gunpowder Plot ⓘ |
| occupation | landowner ⓘ |
| participantIn | Gunpowder Plot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotObjective | blow up the House of Lords ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| socialStatus | gentleman ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Mulshaw NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | knight ⓘ |
| trialLocation | Westminster Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Everard Digby Description of subject: Everard Digby was an English Catholic conspirator best known for his role in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot to assassinate King James I and restore a Catholic monarchy.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Gunpowder Plot