Osbert de Lincoln
E601138
Osbert de Lincoln was a medieval English cleric and royal administrator associated with the city of Lincoln.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Osbert de Lincoln canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6620134 — 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: Osbert de Lincoln Context triple: [Lincoln, hasNotableBearer, Osbert de Lincoln]
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A.
Geoffrey Clifton
Geoffrey Clifton is a fictional British explorer and husband of Katherine Clifton in Michael Ondaatje’s novel and its film adaptation, "The English Patient."
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B.
John Windsor
John Windsor was the engineer responsible for designing Dublin’s iconic cast-iron Ha'penny Bridge over the River Liffey.
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C.
Baron Heseltine
Baron Heseltine is the life peerage title in the House of Lords held by British Conservative politician and businessman Michael Heseltine.
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D.
Guy de Vere
Guy de Vere is a fictional nobleman and grieving lover who serves as the central speaker in Edgar Allan Poe’s poem "Lenore."
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E.
Alfred Atheling
Alfred Atheling was an English prince of the late Anglo-Saxon royal house, known primarily as one of the sons of King Æthelred the Unready during the turbulent period before the Norman Conquest.
- 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: Osbert de Lincoln Target entity description: Osbert de Lincoln was a medieval English cleric and royal administrator associated with the city of Lincoln.
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A.
Geoffrey Clifton
Geoffrey Clifton is a fictional British explorer and husband of Katherine Clifton in Michael Ondaatje’s novel and its film adaptation, "The English Patient."
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B.
John Windsor
John Windsor was the engineer responsible for designing Dublin’s iconic cast-iron Ha'penny Bridge over the River Liffey.
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C.
Baron Heseltine
Baron Heseltine is the life peerage title in the House of Lords held by British Conservative politician and businessman Michael Heseltine.
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D.
Guy de Vere
Guy de Vere is a fictional nobleman and grieving lover who serves as the central speaker in Edgar Allan Poe’s poem "Lenore."
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E.
Alfred Atheling
Alfred Atheling was an English prince of the late Anglo-Saxon royal house, known primarily as one of the sons of King Æthelred the Unready during the turbulent period before the Norman Conquest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (10)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
medieval English cleric
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royal administrator ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| familyName | de Lincoln NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Osbert NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| occupation |
cleric
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royal official ⓘ |
| positionHeld | royal administrator ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| workLocation | Lincoln NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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: Osbert de Lincoln Description of subject: Osbert de Lincoln was a medieval English cleric and royal administrator associated with the city of Lincoln.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.