William Adelin
E111231
William Adelin was the only legitimate son and heir of King Henry I of England whose death in the White Ship disaster of 1120 triggered a succession crisis and civil war.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William Adelin canonical | 9 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T914762 — 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: William Adelin Context triple: [Edith of Scotland, child, William Adelin]
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A.
Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall
Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall was a 13th-century English prince, wealthy magnate, and elected King of the Romans who played a significant role in European politics during the reigns of his brother Henry III and beyond.
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B.
Prince John
Prince John is the power-hungry royal antagonist in the Robin Hood legends, often depicted as the usurping ruler of England who exploits his subjects through oppressive taxation.
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C.
Count of Anjou
The Count of Anjou was a powerful medieval French noble title associated with the influential Angevin dynasty, whose holders, including future kings of England, controlled key territories in western France.
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D.
Prince Louis of France
Prince Louis of France (later King Louis VIII) was a Capetian prince who led a major French intervention in early 13th-century England, even being proclaimed king by rebel barons during the First Barons’ War.
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E.
Edgar Ætheling
Edgar Ætheling was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon prince and briefly proclaimed, though never crowned, king of England after the Norman Conquest.
- 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: William Adelin Target entity description: William Adelin was the only legitimate son and heir of King Henry I of England whose death in the White Ship disaster of 1120 triggered a succession crisis and civil war.
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A.
Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall
Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall was a 13th-century English prince, wealthy magnate, and elected King of the Romans who played a significant role in European politics during the reigns of his brother Henry III and beyond.
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B.
Prince John
Prince John is the power-hungry royal antagonist in the Robin Hood legends, often depicted as the usurping ruler of England who exploits his subjects through oppressive taxation.
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C.
Count of Anjou
The Count of Anjou was a powerful medieval French noble title associated with the influential Angevin dynasty, whose holders, including future kings of England, controlled key territories in western France.
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D.
Prince Louis of France
Prince Louis of France (later King Louis VIII) was a Capetian prince who led a major French intervention in early 13th-century England, even being proclaimed king by rebel barons during the First Barons’ War.
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E.
Edgar Ætheling
Edgar Ætheling was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon prince and briefly proclaimed, though never crowned, king of England after the Norman Conquest.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
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: William Adelin Description of subject: William Adelin was the only legitimate son and heir of King Henry I of England whose death in the White Ship disaster of 1120 triggered a succession crisis and civil war.
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Edith of Scotland