Catherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby
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Catherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, was a prominent 16th-century English noblewoman and courtier, known as a close friend of Catherine Parr and an influential Protestant patron during the reign of Henry VIII and his successors.
All labels observed (1)
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| Catherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11165896 — 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.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Catherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby Context triple: [Lord Willoughby de Eresby, notableHolder, Catherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby]
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Cecily Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington
Cecily Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington, was a wealthy English noblewoman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, notable as one of the greatest heiresses of her time and a prominent figure in the Wars of the Roses’ aftermath.
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Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier
Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier, was an English noblewoman and heiress of the Tudor period whose scandalous separation from her husband, William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, became a notable court controversy.
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Elizabeth Hastings, 16th Baroness Hastings
Elizabeth Hastings, 16th Baroness Hastings, was an English noblewoman and peer who held the ancient barony of Hastings in her own right during the 18th century.
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D.
Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Derby
Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Derby, was an English noblewoman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the daughter of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and a prominent figure at the court of Queen Elizabeth I.
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E.
Elizabeth Belasyse
Elizabeth Belasyse was an English noblewoman of the Belasyse family, best known as the mother of George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Catherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby Target entity description: Catherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, was a prominent 16th-century English noblewoman and courtier, known as a close friend of Catherine Parr and an influential Protestant patron during the reign of Henry VIII and his successors.
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A.
Cecily Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington
Cecily Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington, was a wealthy English noblewoman of the late 15th and early 16th centuries, notable as one of the greatest heiresses of her time and a prominent figure in the Wars of the Roses’ aftermath.
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B.
Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier
Anne Bourchier, 7th Baroness Bourchier, was an English noblewoman and heiress of the Tudor period whose scandalous separation from her husband, William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, became a notable court controversy.
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C.
Elizabeth Hastings, 16th Baroness Hastings
Elizabeth Hastings, 16th Baroness Hastings, was an English noblewoman and peer who held the ancient barony of Hastings in her own right during the 18th century.
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D.
Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Derby
Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of Derby, was an English noblewoman of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the daughter of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, and a prominent figure at the court of Queen Elizabeth I.
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E.
Elizabeth Belasyse
Elizabeth Belasyse was an English noblewoman of the Belasyse family, best known as the mother of George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (44)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
16th-century English person
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English noblewoman ⓘ Protestant patron ⓘ baroness ⓘ courtier ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Edward VI of England
NERFINISHED
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Elizabeth I of England NERFINISHED ⓘ Henry VIII of England NERFINISHED ⓘ Mary I of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1519 ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Spilsby, Lincolnshire (disputed / traditionally given) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| closeFriend | Catherine Parr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| court | Tudor court NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| courtRole | lady-in-waiting to Catherine Parr ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1580 ⓘ |
| era | Tudor period ⓘ |
| familyName | Willoughby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | William Willoughby, 11th Baron Willoughby de Eresby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fledTo | exile in the Low Countries ⓘ |
| givenName | Catherine ⓘ |
| heldLandIn |
Lincolnshire
NERFINISHED
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Suffolk NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mother | Maria de Salinas NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleRank | peer of England ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being a leading Protestant patron at the Tudor court
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outspoken advocacy of Protestant doctrine ⓘ supporting the English Reformation ⓘ |
| notableWork | patronage of Protestant writers and preachers ⓘ |
| patronOf |
Protestant clergy
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Protestant scholars ⓘ |
| politicalAlignment | English Reformation supporters ⓘ |
| reasonForExile | persecution of Protestants under Mary I of England ⓘ |
| religiousBelief | Protestantism ⓘ |
| residence | Grimsthorpe Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| returnedTo | England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| socialClass | nobility ⓘ |
| spouse |
Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk
NERFINISHED
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Richard Bertie NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| stepdaughterInLawOf | Henry VIII of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| titleHeld | Baroness Willoughby de Eresby 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: Catherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby Description of subject: Catherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, was a prominent 16th-century English noblewoman and courtier, known as a close friend of Catherine Parr and an influential Protestant patron during the reign of Henry VIII and his successors.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
Lord Willoughby de Eresby
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notableHolder
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Catherine Willoughby, 12th Baroness Willoughby de Eresby
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