Lord Scales
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Lord Scales is the noble title by which Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers—an influential English courtier, soldier, and patron of literature during the Wars of the Roses—is also known.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Baron Scales | 1 |
| Lord Scales canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9901163 — 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: Lord Scales Context triple: [Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers, alsoKnownAs, Lord Scales]
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A.
Lord Sanquhar
Lord Sanquhar was a Scottish noble title held by a branch of the Crichton family, associated with the peerage of Scotland in the late medieval and early modern periods.
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B.
Lord Rooker
Lord Rooker is a British Labour politician and life peer who served in various ministerial roles, including in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, during the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
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C.
Lord Almoner
The Lord Almoner was a senior royal ecclesiastical official in England responsible for overseeing the distribution of alms and charitable funds on behalf of the monarch.
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D.
Lord Slynn of Hadley
Lord Slynn of Hadley was a prominent British judge and Law Lord known for his influential work in European Union law and service on the House of Lords’ Judicial Committee.
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E.
Lord Fawn
Lord Fawn is a cautious, socially ambitious British nobleman in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Eustace Diamonds," whose engagement to Lizzie Eustace entangles him in scandal and moral compromise.
- 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: Lord Scales Target entity description: Lord Scales is the noble title by which Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers—an influential English courtier, soldier, and patron of literature during the Wars of the Roses—is also known.
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A.
Lord Sanquhar
Lord Sanquhar was a Scottish noble title held by a branch of the Crichton family, associated with the peerage of Scotland in the late medieval and early modern periods.
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B.
Lord Rooker
Lord Rooker is a British Labour politician and life peer who served in various ministerial roles, including in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, during the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
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C.
Lord Almoner
The Lord Almoner was a senior royal ecclesiastical official in England responsible for overseeing the distribution of alms and charitable funds on behalf of the monarch.
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D.
Lord Slynn of Hadley
Lord Slynn of Hadley was a prominent British judge and Law Lord known for his influential work in European Union law and service on the House of Lords’ Judicial Committee.
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E.
Lord Fawn
Lord Fawn is a cautious, socially ambitious British nobleman in Anthony Trollope’s novel "The Eustace Diamonds," whose engagement to Lizzie Eustace entangles him in scandal and moral compromise.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English nobleman
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courtesy title ⓘ courtier ⓘ noble title ⓘ patron of literature ⓘ soldier ⓘ |
| allegiance | House of York NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs | Lord Scales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| associatedWithMonarch |
Edward IV of England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edward V of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Pontefract, Yorkshire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | c. 1440 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 25 June 1483 ⓘ |
| era | Wars of the Roses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| familyName | Woodville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Anthony ⓘ |
| guardianOf | Edward V of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| heldTitleFrom | Lord Scales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| killedBy | supporters of Richard, Duke of Gloucester ⓘ |
| language |
English
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French ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | execution ⓘ |
| memberOfFamily | Woodville family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Jacquetta of Luxembourg NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleRank | earl ⓘ |
| nobleTitle |
2nd Earl Rivers
NERFINISHED
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Lord Scales NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableAs | one of the earliest books printed in English ⓘ |
| notableFor |
influence at the court of Edward IV
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patronage of printing and literature ⓘ |
| occupation |
courtier
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soldier ⓘ statesman ⓘ |
| participatedIn | Wars of the Roses NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| patronOf | William Caxton NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Pontefract, Yorkshire, England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalFaction | Woodville affinity ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholic ⓘ |
| sibling | Elizabeth Woodville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| siblingOfQueenConsort | Elizabeth Woodville NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | King Edward IV of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supported | early English printing ⓘ |
| translatedWork | The Dictes and Sayings of the Philosophers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| translator | Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usedBy | Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers 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: Lord Scales Description of subject: Lord Scales is the noble title by which Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers—an influential English courtier, soldier, and patron of literature during the Wars of the Roses—is also known.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Baron Scales