Lady Despenser
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Lady Despenser is the noble title held by Constance of York, an English medieval noblewoman of the royal House of York.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Lady Despenser canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9440461 — 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: Lady Despenser Context triple: [Constance of York, nobleTitle, Lady Despenser]
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A.
Isabella le Despenser
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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B.
Margery Seymour
Margery Seymour was a member of the prominent Seymour family of Tudor England, related to the courtly circle that produced Jane Seymour, third wife of King Henry VIII.
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C.
Hugh Despenser the Elder
Hugh Despenser the Elder was a powerful English nobleman and royal favorite of Edward II, whose influence and land acquisitions helped spark baronial opposition and ultimately led to his execution in 1326.
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D.
Lettice Knollys
Lettice Knollys was a prominent English noblewoman of the Tudor court, noted as a cousin of Queen Elizabeth I and the controversial second wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
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E.
Hugh Despenser the Younger
Hugh Despenser the Younger was a powerful and unpopular English nobleman whose dominance at the court of Edward II and ruthless pursuit of wealth helped provoke the baronial revolt that led to his execution in 1326.
- 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: Lady Despenser Target entity description: Lady Despenser is the noble title held by Constance of York, an English medieval noblewoman of the royal House of York.
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A.
Isabella le Despenser
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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B.
Margery Seymour
Margery Seymour was a member of the prominent Seymour family of Tudor England, related to the courtly circle that produced Jane Seymour, third wife of King Henry VIII.
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C.
Hugh Despenser the Elder
Hugh Despenser the Elder was a powerful English nobleman and royal favorite of Edward II, whose influence and land acquisitions helped spark baronial opposition and ultimately led to his execution in 1326.
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D.
Lettice Knollys
Lettice Knollys was a prominent English noblewoman of the Tudor court, noted as a cousin of Queen Elizabeth I and the controversial second wife of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.
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E.
Hugh Despenser the Younger
Hugh Despenser the Younger was a powerful and unpopular English nobleman whose dominance at the court of Edward II and ruthless pursuit of wealth helped provoke the baronial revolt that led to his execution in 1326.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English noble
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medieval English person ⓘ member of royalty ⓘ noble title ⓘ noblewoman ⓘ |
| associatedWithFamily |
House of Despenser
NERFINISHED
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House of York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Kingdom of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Kingdom of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | of York ⓘ |
| father | Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Constance NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| grandfather | Edward III of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldBy | Constance of York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memberOf | House of York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Lady Despenser NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFamily | English royal family ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Countess of Gloucester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relative |
Henry IV of England
NERFINISHED
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Richard II of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| royalHouse |
House of Plantagenet
NERFINISHED
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House of York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Edward of Norwich, 2nd Duke of York
NERFINISHED
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Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| timePeriod | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| titleHeld | Lady Despenser 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: Lady Despenser Description of subject: Lady Despenser is the noble title held by Constance of York, an English medieval noblewoman of the royal House of York.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.