James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton
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James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton, was a 17th-century English nobleman and politician who served as a Royalist military commander during the English Civil War.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T8761161 — 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: James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton Context triple: [Spencer Compton, Earl of Wilmington, father, James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton]
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William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton
William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, was an English nobleman and courtier, brother of Queen Catherine Parr, who rose to prominence during the reign of Henry VIII and Edward VI.
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B.
George North, 3rd Earl of Guilford
George North, 3rd Earl of Guilford was a British peer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries who inherited the Guilford earldom from his father, the former Prime Minister Lord North.
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C.
1st Marquess of Northampton
The 1st Marquess of Northampton was an English nobleman of the Tudor period, notably the brother of Queen Catherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII.
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D.
James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk
James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk was a prominent early 17th-century English nobleman and courtier who rose to high military and ceremonial authority under the Stuart monarchy.
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E.
James Cecil, 7th Earl of Salisbury
James Cecil, 7th Earl of Salisbury, was a British Conservative politician and aristocrat who was elevated to the peerage as Marquess of Salisbury in the late 18th century.
- 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: James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton Target entity description: James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton, was a 17th-century English nobleman and politician who served as a Royalist military commander during the English Civil War.
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A.
William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton
William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, was an English nobleman and courtier, brother of Queen Catherine Parr, who rose to prominence during the reign of Henry VIII and Edward VI.
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B.
George North, 3rd Earl of Guilford
George North, 3rd Earl of Guilford was a British peer and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries who inherited the Guilford earldom from his father, the former Prime Minister Lord North.
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C.
1st Marquess of Northampton
The 1st Marquess of Northampton was an English nobleman of the Tudor period, notably the brother of Queen Catherine Parr, the sixth wife of King Henry VIII.
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D.
James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk
James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk was a prominent early 17th-century English nobleman and courtier who rose to high military and ceremonial authority under the Stuart monarchy.
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E.
James Cecil, 7th Earl of Salisbury
James Cecil, 7th Earl of Salisbury, was a British Conservative politician and aristocrat who was elevated to the peerage as Marquess of Salisbury in the late 18th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (41)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
British politician
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English nobleman ⓘ Royalist military commander ⓘ member of the peerage of England ⓘ |
| allegiance |
Charles I of England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Royalists ⓘ |
| associatedWithEvent | Wars of the Three Kingdoms NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1622 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | England ⓘ |
| child |
George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Mary Compton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1681 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | England ⓘ |
| era | 17th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Compton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | male ⓘ |
| givenName | James ⓘ |
| honorificPrefix | The Right Honourable ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | English ⓘ |
| militaryBranch | Royalist army ⓘ |
| monarchServed |
Charles I of England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Charles II of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Mary Beaumont, Countess of Northampton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Compton family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleRank | Earl ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Earl of Northampton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor | service as a Royalist commander in the English Civil War ⓘ |
| ordinalOfTitle | 3rd Earl of Northampton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parliamentaryFaction | Royalist supporters in Parliament ⓘ |
| participatedIn | English Civil War NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | Royalist ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Member of Parliament of England
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member of the House of Commons of England ⓘ member of the House of Lords ⓘ |
| religion | Church of England ⓘ |
| socialClass | aristocracy ⓘ |
| spouse | Mary Noel NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| succession | succeeded by George Compton, 4th Earl of Northampton ⓘ |
| titleInheritedFrom | Spencer Compton, 2nd Earl of Northampton 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: James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton Description of subject: James Compton, 3rd Earl of Northampton, was a 17th-century English nobleman and politician who served as a Royalist military commander during the English Civil War.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Henry Compton