Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester
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Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, was an 18th-century British aristocrat, politician, and prominent art and manuscript collector whose name is associated with Leonardo da Vinci’s famed Codex Leicester.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Thomas Coke of Holkham | 1 |
| Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester canonical | 1 |
| Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T5735144 — 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 Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester Context triple: [Codex Leicester, namedAfter, Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester]
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A.
Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester
Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, was a 17th-century English nobleman, diplomat, and politician who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and held significant influence at the court of Charles I.
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B.
Sir Thomas Osborne
Sir Thomas Osborne was a prominent 17th-century English statesman who served as a leading minister under Charles II and later became the 1st Duke of Leeds.
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C.
Viscount Coke
Viscount Coke is a hereditary noble title in the British peerage associated with the prominent aristocratic Coke family.
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D.
Robert Cecil
Robert Cecil was a British statesman and key architect of the League of Nations, known for his influential work in promoting international peace and cooperation after World War I.
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E.
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, was a prominent early 18th-century English statesman and Tory leader who served as Queen Anne’s chief minister and played a key role in negotiating the Peace of Utrecht.
- 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 Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester Target entity description: Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, was an 18th-century British aristocrat, politician, and prominent art and manuscript collector whose name is associated with Leonardo da Vinci’s famed Codex Leicester.
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A.
Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester
Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester, was a 17th-century English nobleman, diplomat, and politician who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and held significant influence at the court of Charles I.
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B.
Sir Thomas Osborne
Sir Thomas Osborne was a prominent 17th-century English statesman who served as a leading minister under Charles II and later became the 1st Duke of Leeds.
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C.
Viscount Coke
Viscount Coke is a hereditary noble title in the British peerage associated with the prominent aristocratic Coke family.
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D.
Robert Cecil
Robert Cecil was a British statesman and key architect of the League of Nations, known for his influential work in promoting international peace and cooperation after World War I.
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E.
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Robert Harley, 1st Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, was a prominent early 18th-century English statesman and Tory leader who served as Queen Anne’s chief minister and played a key role in negotiating the Peace of Utrecht.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British aristocrat
ⓘ
British politician ⓘ art collector ⓘ human ⓘ manuscript collector ⓘ |
| architecturalPatronage | construction of Holkham Hall ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Leonardo da Vinci NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1697-05-17 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Holkham, Norfolk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Holkham, Norfolk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| collectionContains |
Italian Renaissance paintings
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classical antiquities ⓘ rare manuscripts ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Great Britain ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1759-04-20 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Holkham, Norfolk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Inner Temple
NERFINISHED
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Trinity College, Cambridge ⓘ Westminster School ⓘ |
| employer | British royal household NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Coke NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Edward Coke of Holkham NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Thomas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| inceptionOfTitle | 1744 (creation of the Earldom of Leicester for Thomas Coke) ⓘ |
| knownFor |
Grand Tour collecting activities
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ownership of Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester ⓘ patronage of the arts ⓘ |
| memberOfNobleFamily | Coke family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| monarchServed | George II of Great Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Carey Newton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Baron Lovel
NERFINISHED
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Earl of Leicester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableWork |
art collection at Holkham Hall
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development of Holkham Hall ⓘ manuscript collection including the Codex Leicester ⓘ |
| owned | Codex Leicester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parliamentaryBody |
House of Commons of Great Britain
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
House of Lords NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Grand Tour in Europe NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Whig NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk
NERFINISHED
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Lord of the Bedchamber NERFINISHED ⓘ Member of Parliament for Norfolk ⓘ Vice-Chamberlain of the Household NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity |
London
NERFINISHED
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Norfolk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| residence | Holkham Hall NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse |
Lady Margaret Tufton
NERFINISHED
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Margaret Tufton, 19th Baroness de Clifford 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: Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester Description of subject: Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester, was an 18th-century British aristocrat, politician, and prominent art and manuscript collector whose name is associated with Leonardo da Vinci’s famed Codex Leicester.
Referenced by (3)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Thomas Coke of Holkham
this entity surface form:
Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester of Holkham