Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland
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Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, was a prominent 15th-century English nobleman and leading Lancastrian military commander during the early stages of the Wars of the Roses.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7820677 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland Context triple: [First Battle of St Albans, killed, Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland]
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Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland
Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, was a prominent English nobleman of the late 15th century whose shifting loyalties during the Wars of the Roses significantly influenced the balance of power between the houses of York and Lancaster.
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Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland
Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, was a prominent English nobleman of the early 16th century, closely involved in northern governance and Tudor court politics.
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Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland
Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, was an 18th-century British nobleman, soldier, and politician who became a prominent peer and influential figure in Georgian England.
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Duke of Northumberland
The Duke of Northumberland is a hereditary British noble title held by the head of the Percy family, historically one of England’s most powerful aristocratic dynasties and major landowners.
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Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland
Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland, was an 18th-century British peer, soldier, and politician who notably served as a general in the American Revolutionary War and held significant influence in British aristocratic and political circles.
- 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: Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland Target entity description: Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, was a prominent 15th-century English nobleman and leading Lancastrian military commander during the early stages of the Wars of the Roses.
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A.
Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland
Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, was a prominent English nobleman of the late 15th century whose shifting loyalties during the Wars of the Roses significantly influenced the balance of power between the houses of York and Lancaster.
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B.
Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland
Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland, was a prominent English nobleman of the early 16th century, closely involved in northern governance and Tudor court politics.
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C.
Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland
Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland, was an 18th-century British nobleman, soldier, and politician who became a prominent peer and influential figure in Georgian England.
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D.
Duke of Northumberland
The Duke of Northumberland is a hereditary British noble title held by the head of the Percy family, historically one of England’s most powerful aristocratic dynasties and major landowners.
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E.
Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland
Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland, was an 18th-century British peer, soldier, and politician who notably served as a general in the American Revolutionary War and held significant influence in British aristocratic and political circles.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
15th-century English person
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Earl ⓘ English nobleman ⓘ Lancastrian military commander ⓘ |
| allegiance | House of Lancaster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithPlace |
Northern England
NERFINISHED
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Northumberland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Kingdom of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthYear | 1393 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | St Albans Abbey (traditional attribution) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | killed in battle ⓘ |
| child |
Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland
NERFINISHED
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Thomas Percy, Baron Egremont NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| conflict |
First Battle of St Albans
NERFINISHED
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Wars of the Roses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| deathPlace | St Albans, Hertfordshire, Kingdom of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| deathYear | 1455 ⓘ |
| era | Late Middle Ages ⓘ |
| familyName | Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fatherInLaw | Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldTitleFrom | 1416 ⓘ |
| heldTitleUntil | 1455 ⓘ |
| language | Middle English ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | killed in action ⓘ |
| militaryRank | commander ⓘ |
| monarchServed |
Henry IV of England
NERFINISHED
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Henry V of England NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry VI of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Margaret Neville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motherInLaw | Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | House of Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Earl of Northumberland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
leading Lancastrian commander in early Wars of the Roses
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service on the northern English border ⓘ |
| ordinalInTitle | 2nd Earl of Northumberland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Earl of Northumberland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| predecessor | Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholic ⓘ |
| restorationYear | 1416 ⓘ |
| socialClass | peerage of England ⓘ |
| spouse | Eleanor Neville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| successor | Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleRestored | Earl of Northumberland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleRestoredBy | Henry V of England 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: Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland Description of subject: Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland, was a prominent 15th-century English nobleman and leading Lancastrian military commander during the early stages of the Wars of the Roses.
Referenced by (2)
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