Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester
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Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester, was a 14th-century English nobleman and soldier who rose to prominence through his marriage to Margaret de Clare and his involvement in the political upheavals of Edward II’s reign.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T11780956 — 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: Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester Context triple: [Audley family, notableMember, Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester]
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Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester
Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester was a powerful 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader, best known as a key supporter of Empress Matilda during the civil war known as The Anarchy.
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2nd Earl of Gloucester
The 2nd Earl of Gloucester was a prominent 12th-century English nobleman and feudal magnate, notable for his extensive landholdings and political influence during the reigns of King Stephen and Henry II.
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Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester
Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, was a powerful 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and magnate who played a key role in the politics of the reigns of Henry III and Edward I.
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Earl of Gloucester
The Earl of Gloucester was a prominent English noble title historically held by influential magnates closely connected to the royal family and the political affairs of medieval England.
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William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester
William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, was a prominent 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and feudal magnate who held extensive lands in England and Wales and played a significant role in the politics of the reigns of Kings Stephen and Henry II.
- 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: Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester Target entity description: Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester, was a 14th-century English nobleman and soldier who rose to prominence through his marriage to Margaret de Clare and his involvement in the political upheavals of Edward II’s reign.
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A.
Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester
Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester was a powerful 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and military leader, best known as a key supporter of Empress Matilda during the civil war known as The Anarchy.
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B.
2nd Earl of Gloucester
The 2nd Earl of Gloucester was a prominent 12th-century English nobleman and feudal magnate, notable for his extensive landholdings and political influence during the reigns of King Stephen and Henry II.
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C.
Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester
Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, was a powerful 13th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and magnate who played a key role in the politics of the reigns of Henry III and Edward I.
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D.
Earl of Gloucester
The Earl of Gloucester was a prominent English noble title historically held by influential magnates closely connected to the royal family and the political affairs of medieval England.
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E.
William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester
William FitzRobert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, was a prominent 12th-century Anglo-Norman nobleman and feudal magnate who held extensive lands in England and Wales and played a significant role in the politics of the reigns of Kings Stephen and Henry II.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Earl
ⓘ
English nobleman ⓘ medieval soldier ⓘ member of the English peerage ⓘ |
| acquiredTitleThrough | marriage to Margaret de Clare ⓘ |
| associatedWith | Gloucester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Tonbridge Priory NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| child | Margaret de Audley, 2nd Baroness Audley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | c. 1291 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 10 November 1347 ⓘ |
| deathCause | natural causes (presumed) ⓘ |
| era | 14th century ⓘ |
| familyName | de Audley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | Hugh de Audley, 1st Baron Audley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| givenName | Hugh ⓘ |
| heldOffice | royal councillor ⓘ |
| heldTitle |
1st Earl of Gloucester
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Baron Audley NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| imprisonedAt | Wallingford Castle NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| imprisonedDuring | reign of Edward II of England ⓘ |
| inheritedLandsFrom | the de Clare family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| language | Middle English ⓘ |
| militaryRole | commander in campaigns of Edward III ⓘ |
| monarchServed |
Edward II of England
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
Edward III of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Isolt de Mortimer NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Audley family NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Earl of Gloucester NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableFor |
rise to prominence through marriage to Margaret de Clare
ⓘ
role in baronial opposition to Edward II ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
Despenser War
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
political conflicts during the reign of Edward II ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | England ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | England ⓘ |
| rank | peer of the realm ⓘ |
| relatedByMarriageTo | House of Plantagenet NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| releasedBy | Queen Isabella of France NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| servedAs | English magnate in the Welsh Marches ⓘ |
| sonInLaw | Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouse | Margaret de Clare NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| spouseFamilyConnection | Margaret de Clare was granddaughter of King Edward I of England NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| style | Lord Audley before creation as Earl of Gloucester ⓘ |
| successorInLands | Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| supported | overthrow of Edward II of England ⓘ |
| titleCreated | Earl of Gloucester (created for him in 1337) 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: Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester Description of subject: Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester, was a 14th-century English nobleman and soldier who rose to prominence through his marriage to Margaret de Clare and his involvement in the political upheavals of Edward II’s reign.
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