Isabella le Despenser
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Isabella le Despenser was a 14th-century English noblewoman of the powerful Despenser family, closely connected to the turbulent politics of Edward II’s reign.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester and Warwick | 1 |
| Isabella le Despenser canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7869611 — 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: Isabella le Despenser Context triple: [Hugh Despenser the Younger, sibling, Isabella le Despenser]
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A.
Isabeau de La Touche
Isabeau de La Touche was a French noblewoman of the 16th century, known primarily as the wife of Gabriel de Montgomery, the Huguenot noble whose lance fatally wounded King Henry II of France in a jousting accident.
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B.
Elizabeth de Courtenay
Elizabeth de Courtenay was a French noblewoman of the Courtenay family, notable as the mother of Peter II of Courtenay, Latin Emperor of Constantinople.
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C.
Mary of Woodstock
Mary of Woodstock was an English princess, daughter of King Edward I, who became a nun at Amesbury Priory and was known for her prominent royal and religious status in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.
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D.
Margaret Mortimer
Margaret Mortimer was a medieval English noblewoman of the powerful Mortimer family, daughter of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, and a figure in the aristocratic networks surrounding the reign of Edward II and Edward III.
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E.
Philippa of Lancaster
Philippa of Lancaster was an English-born queen consort of Portugal from the House of Lancaster, whose marriage to King John I helped solidify the Anglo-Portuguese alliance and produced several influential royal children, including Henry the Navigator.
- 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: Isabella le Despenser Target entity description: Isabella le Despenser was a 14th-century English noblewoman of the powerful Despenser family, closely connected to the turbulent politics of Edward II’s reign.
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A.
Isabeau de La Touche
Isabeau de La Touche was a French noblewoman of the 16th century, known primarily as the wife of Gabriel de Montgomery, the Huguenot noble whose lance fatally wounded King Henry II of France in a jousting accident.
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B.
Elizabeth de Courtenay
Elizabeth de Courtenay was a French noblewoman of the Courtenay family, notable as the mother of Peter II of Courtenay, Latin Emperor of Constantinople.
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C.
Mary of Woodstock
Mary of Woodstock was an English princess, daughter of King Edward I, who became a nun at Amesbury Priory and was known for her prominent royal and religious status in the late 13th and early 14th centuries.
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D.
Margaret Mortimer
Margaret Mortimer was a medieval English noblewoman of the powerful Mortimer family, daughter of Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, and a figure in the aristocratic networks surrounding the reign of Edward II and Edward III.
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E.
Philippa of Lancaster
Philippa of Lancaster was an English-born queen consort of Portugal from the House of Lancaster, whose marriage to King John I helped solidify the Anglo-Portuguese alliance and produced several influential royal children, including Henry the Navigator.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (42)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English noblewoman
ⓘ
medieval noble ⓘ member of the Despenser family ⓘ |
| centuryOfBirth | 14th century ⓘ |
| centuryOfDeath | 14th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | c. 1312 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | c. 1356 ⓘ |
| era |
early reign of Edward III of England
ⓘ
reign of Edward II of England ⓘ |
| familyName | Despenser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Hugh Despenser the Younger NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruit | 14th century ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Isabella NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandparent | Edward I of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
Despenser War
NERFINISHED
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fall of Edward II of England ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Middle English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married more than once ⓘ |
| maternalGrandfather | Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| maternalGrandmother | Joan of Acre NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Eleanor de Clare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Despenser family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
Baroness
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Countess ⓘ |
| notableFamilyConnection | favorite of Edward II (through her father Hugh Despenser the Younger) ⓘ |
| paternalGrandfather | Hugh Despenser the Elder NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Kingdom of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Kingdom of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Baroness Hastings
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Countess of Arundel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| region | England ⓘ |
| relative |
Edward II of England
NERFINISHED
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Edward III of England NERFINISHED ⓘ Elizabeth de Clare NERFINISHED ⓘ Hugh Despenser (brother) NERFINISHED ⓘ Margaret de Clare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| socialClass | high nobility ⓘ |
| spouse |
John de Hastings, 2nd Baron Hastings
NERFINISHED
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Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel 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: Isabella le Despenser Description of subject: Isabella le Despenser was a 14th-century English noblewoman of the powerful Despenser family, closely connected to the turbulent politics of Edward II’s reign.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester and Warwick