Thomas Percy
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Thomas Percy was an English nobleman best known for his prominent role in leading the 1536–1537 Catholic uprising against Henry VIII known as the Pilgrimage of Grace.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Thomas Percy canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5642342 — 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: Thomas Percy Context triple: [Pilgrimage of Grace, leader, Thomas Percy]
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A.
Thomas Percy
Thomas Percy was an English Catholic conspirator and member of the Percy family who played a key role in organizing the 1605 Gunpowder Plot against King James I and Parliament.
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B.
Arthur Brooke
Arthur Brooke was a 16th-century English poet best known for writing the narrative poem that served as the primary source for Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet."
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C.
Thomas Lodge
Thomas Lodge was an English Renaissance writer, poet, and dramatist best known for his prose romance "Rosalynde," which inspired Shakespeare's play "As You Like It."
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D.
William Dunbar
William Dunbar was a prominent late 15th- to early 16th-century Scottish makar (poet) known for his richly inventive verse and significant contribution to early Scots literature.
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E.
Edward Barrett
Edward Barrett was a member of the prominent Barrett family of the 19th century and the brother of renowned English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
- 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: Thomas Percy Target entity description: Thomas Percy was an English nobleman best known for his prominent role in leading the 1536–1537 Catholic uprising against Henry VIII known as the Pilgrimage of Grace.
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A.
Thomas Percy
Thomas Percy was an English Catholic conspirator and member of the Percy family who played a key role in organizing the 1605 Gunpowder Plot against King James I and Parliament.
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B.
Arthur Brooke
Arthur Brooke was a 16th-century English poet best known for writing the narrative poem that served as the primary source for Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet."
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C.
Thomas Lodge
Thomas Lodge was an English Renaissance writer, poet, and dramatist best known for his prose romance "Rosalynde," which inspired Shakespeare's play "As You Like It."
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D.
William Dunbar
William Dunbar was a prominent late 15th- to early 16th-century Scottish makar (poet) known for his richly inventive verse and significant contribution to early Scots literature.
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E.
Edward Barrett
Edward Barrett was a member of the prominent Barrett family of the 19th century and the brother of renowned English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English nobleman
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human ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| conflict | English Reformation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1537 ⓘ |
| era | Tudor period ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | English NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasGender | male ⓘ |
| involvedIn | Northern rebellion against Henry VIII ⓘ |
| knownFor | leading 1536–1537 Catholic uprising against Henry VIII ⓘ |
| livedDuring | reign of Henry VIII ⓘ |
| movement | Catholic resistance to the English Reformation ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | leadership role in the Pilgrimage of Grace ⓘ |
| opposed |
Dissolution of the Monasteries
NERFINISHED
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Henry VIII of England NERFINISHED ⓘ Royal religious policies of Henry VIII ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Pilgrimage of Grace NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfActivity | Northern England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | pro-Catholic ⓘ |
| positionHeld | English peer ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholicism
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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: Thomas Percy Description of subject: Thomas Percy was an English nobleman best known for his prominent role in leading the 1536–1537 Catholic uprising against Henry VIII known as the Pilgrimage of Grace.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.