Robert Wintour
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Robert Wintour 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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| Robert Wintour canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5454216 — 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 Wintour Context triple: [Gunpowder Plot, participant, Robert Wintour]
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A.
Thomas Wintour
Thomas Wintour was an English conspirator best known as one of the key Catholic plotters involved in the 1605 attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament and assassinate King James I.
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B.
Roy Jenkins
Roy Jenkins was a prominent British politician and statesman, known for serving as Home Secretary, President of the European Commission, and later as a leading figure in the breakaway centrist movement that reshaped UK politics in the early 1980s.
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C.
Jeremy Beadle
Jeremy Beadle was a British television presenter and producer best known for his practical joke shows such as "Beadle's About" and "You've Been Framed!"
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D.
Charles Wintour
Charles Wintour was a prominent British newspaper editor best known for modernizing London’s Evening Standard and for being the father of Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.
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E.
Graham Baldwin
Graham Baldwin is a British academic and university leader who serves as the vice-chancellor of the University of Central Lancashire.
- 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 Wintour Target entity description: Robert Wintour 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.
Thomas Wintour
Thomas Wintour was an English conspirator best known as one of the key Catholic plotters involved in the 1605 attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament and assassinate King James I.
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B.
Roy Jenkins
Roy Jenkins was a prominent British politician and statesman, known for serving as Home Secretary, President of the European Commission, and later as a leading figure in the breakaway centrist movement that reshaped UK politics in the early 1980s.
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C.
Jeremy Beadle
Jeremy Beadle was a British television presenter and producer best known for his practical joke shows such as "Beadle's About" and "You've Been Framed!"
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D.
Charles Wintour
Charles Wintour was a prominent British newspaper editor best known for modernizing London’s Evening Standard and for being the father of Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.
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E.
Graham Baldwin
Graham Baldwin is a British academic and university leader who serves as the vice-chancellor of the University of Central Lancashire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English Catholic conspirator
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Gunpowder Plot conspirator ⓘ historical figure ⓘ |
| arrestedFor | Gunpowder Plot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | unmarked grave (as a traitor) ⓘ |
| capturedAt | Huddington, Worcestershire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity |
16th century
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17th century ⓘ |
| coConspirator |
Ambrose Rookwood
NERFINISHED
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Everard Digby NERFINISHED ⓘ Francis Tresham NERFINISHED ⓘ Guy Fawkes NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry Garnet NERFINISHED ⓘ John Grant NERFINISHED ⓘ Robert Catesby NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Wintour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| confession | Roman Catholic ⓘ |
| convictedOf | high treason ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| dateOfArrest | January 1606 ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | c. 1568 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 30 January 1606 ⓘ |
| familyResidence | Huddington Court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | George Wintour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| goal |
assassination of King James I
ⓘ
restoration of a Catholic monarchy in England ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
Elizabethan era
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Jacobean era NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor | attempt to overthrow the Protestant establishment in England ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution by hanging, drawing and quartering ⓘ |
| memberOf | Wintour family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | Gunpowder Plot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| opposedPoliticalSystem | Protestant rule in England ⓘ |
| opposedTo | King James I of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Gunpowder Plot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| penalty | death ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Huddington, Worcestershire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | London, England ⓘ |
| placeOfExecution | Old Palace Yard, Westminster, London NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | pro-Catholic ⓘ |
| reasonForNotability | involvement in attempt to blow up the House of Lords in 1605 ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| sibling | Thomas Wintour NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | gentry ⓘ |
| spouse | Gertrude Talbot NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| triedBy | English authorities ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
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Input
Subject: Robert Wintour Description of subject: Robert Wintour 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