Dorothy Percy
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Dorothy Percy was an English noblewoman of the early 17th century, a member of the influential Percy family who became Countess of Leicester through her marriage to Robert Sidney.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Dorothy Percy canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10507292 — 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: Dorothy Percy Context triple: [Henry Sidney, mother, Dorothy Percy]
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A.
Dorothy Fane
Dorothy Fane was an 18th-century British aristocrat best known as the wife of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, a prominent statesman in Georgian England.
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B.
Dorothy Fane
Dorothy Fane was an English aristocrat best known as the wife of John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich, and a member of the prominent Fane family.
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C.
Dorothy Neville
Dorothy Neville was an English noblewoman of the late 16th century, notable as a member of the influential Neville family and the mother of Elizabeth Cecil.
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D.
Elizabeth Poyntz
Elizabeth Poyntz was an English noblewoman best known as the wife of Thomas Butler, Viscount Thurles, and the mother of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond, a leading statesman in 17th-century Ireland.
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E.
Dorothy Cavendish
Dorothy Cavendish was a British aristocrat and political hostess, best known as the wife of Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and a member of the influential Cavendish/Devonshire family.
- 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: Dorothy Percy Target entity description: Dorothy Percy was an English noblewoman of the early 17th century, a member of the influential Percy family who became Countess of Leicester through her marriage to Robert Sidney.
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A.
Dorothy Fane
Dorothy Fane was an 18th-century British aristocrat best known as the wife of John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, a prominent statesman in Georgian England.
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B.
Dorothy Fane
Dorothy Fane was an English aristocrat best known as the wife of John Montagu, 5th Earl of Sandwich, and a member of the prominent Fane family.
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C.
Dorothy Neville
Dorothy Neville was an English noblewoman of the late 16th century, notable as a member of the influential Neville family and the mother of Elizabeth Cecil.
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D.
Elizabeth Poyntz
Elizabeth Poyntz was an English noblewoman best known as the wife of Thomas Butler, Viscount Thurles, and the mother of James Butler, 1st Duke of Ormond, a leading statesman in 17th-century Ireland.
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E.
Dorothy Cavendish
Dorothy Cavendish was a British aristocrat and political hostess, best known as the wife of Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and a member of the influential Cavendish/Devonshire family.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Countess
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English noblewoman ⓘ |
| birthCentury | 16th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| deathCentury | 17th century ⓘ |
| familyName | Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| floruit | early 17th century ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Dorothy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| languageOfUse | English ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| memberOf | Percy family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Dorothy Devereux NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleRank | countess ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Countess of Leicester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFamilyConnection |
Earl of Northumberland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
House of Percy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld | Countess of Leicester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sibling |
Algernon Percy, 10th Earl of Northumberland
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Lucy Percy, Countess of Carlisle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| spouse |
Dorothy Percy
NERFINISHED
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Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseTitle | Earl of Leicester 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: Dorothy Percy Description of subject: Dorothy Percy was an English noblewoman of the early 17th century, a member of the influential Percy family who became Countess of Leicester through her marriage to Robert Sidney.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.