Agnes Tilney
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Agnes Tilney was an English noblewoman of the Tudor court, best known as the second wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, and step-grandmother to queens Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Agnes Tilney canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9887260 — 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: Agnes Tilney Context triple: [William Howard, 1st Baron Howard of Effingham, mother, Agnes Tilney]
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A.
Eleanor Tilney
Eleanor Tilney is a kind, sensible, and refined young woman in Jane Austen’s novel "Northanger Abbey," known for her friendship with the heroine and her role as Henry Tilney’s supportive sister.
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B.
Mrs. Reed
Mrs. Reed is Jane Eyre’s cruel and resentful aunt by marriage who raises her harshly at Gateshead Hall in Charlotte Brontë’s novel.
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C.
Agnes
Agnes is the devout young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Agnes of Sorrento," set in Renaissance Italy.
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D.
Agnes
Agnes is a feminine given name of Greek origin meaning "pure" or "chaste," historically popular in various European cultures and Christian traditions.
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E.
Agnes
Agnes is a character from Matthew Gregory Lewis's Gothic novel "The Monk," known for her tragic storyline involving forbidden love and persecution.
- 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: Agnes Tilney Target entity description: Agnes Tilney was an English noblewoman of the Tudor court, best known as the second wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, and step-grandmother to queens Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.
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A.
Eleanor Tilney
Eleanor Tilney is a kind, sensible, and refined young woman in Jane Austen’s novel "Northanger Abbey," known for her friendship with the heroine and her role as Henry Tilney’s supportive sister.
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B.
Mrs. Reed
Mrs. Reed is Jane Eyre’s cruel and resentful aunt by marriage who raises her harshly at Gateshead Hall in Charlotte Brontë’s novel.
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C.
Agnes
Agnes is the devout young heroine of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel "Agnes of Sorrento," set in Renaissance Italy.
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D.
Agnes
Agnes is a feminine given name of Greek origin meaning "pure" or "chaste," historically popular in various European cultures and Christian traditions.
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E.
Agnes
Agnes is a character from Matthew Gregory Lewis's Gothic novel "The Monk," known for her tragic storyline involving forbidden love and persecution.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (30)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English noblewoman
ⓘ
Tudor-period noble ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Anne Boleyn
NERFINISHED
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Catherine Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| court | Tudor court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dynasticConnection | House of Tudor NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| era | Tudor period NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| marriedInto | Howard family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| monarchDuringLifetime |
Henry VII of England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Henry VIII of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Howard family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being second wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk
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being step-grandmother of Queen Anne Boleyn ⓘ being step-grandmother of Queen Catherine Howard ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Duchess of Norfolk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage |
Edmund Howard
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Elizabeth Boleyn, Countess of Wiltshire NERFINISHED ⓘ Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence | England ⓘ |
| socialClass | aristocracy ⓘ |
| sphereOfActivity | English royal court ⓘ |
| spouse | Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stepGrandmotherOf |
Anne Boleyn
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Catherine Howard NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| title | Duchess of Norfolk 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: Agnes Tilney Description of subject: Agnes Tilney was an English noblewoman of the Tudor court, best known as the second wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk, and step-grandmother to queens Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.