Fressenda
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Fressenda was an 11th-century Norman noblewoman of the Hauteville family, notable as the wife of Tancred of Hauteville and a matriarch of the Norman rulers in southern Italy and Sicily.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Fressenda canonical | 10 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T824834 — 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: Fressenda Context triple: [Roger I of Sicily, mother, Fressenda]
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A.
Neraudia
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B.
Agria
Agria is a coastal town in the Magnesia regional unit of Thessaly, Greece, near the city of Volos.
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C.
Crombach
Crombach is a village in the municipality of St. Vith in the German-speaking region of eastern Belgium.
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D.
Barellan
Barellan is a small rural town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia, known for its grain farming and association with tennis champion Evonne Goolagong-Cawley.
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E.
Spaeny
Spaeny is the surname of American actress and singer Cailee Spaeny, known for her roles in films like "Pacific Rim: Uprising" and "Priscilla."
- 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: Fressenda Target entity description: Fressenda was an 11th-century Norman noblewoman of the Hauteville family, notable as the wife of Tancred of Hauteville and a matriarch of the Norman rulers in southern Italy and Sicily.
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A.
Neraudia
Neraudia is a small genus of flowering plants in the hemp family Cannabaceae, native to Hawaii and known for its often rare and endemic shrub species.
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B.
Agria
Agria is a coastal town in the Magnesia regional unit of Thessaly, Greece, near the city of Volos.
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C.
Crombach
Crombach is a village in the municipality of St. Vith in the German-speaking region of eastern Belgium.
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D.
Barellan
Barellan is a small rural town in the Riverina region of New South Wales, Australia, known for its grain farming and association with tennis champion Evonne Goolagong-Cawley.
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E.
Spaeny
Spaeny is the surname of American actress and singer Cailee Spaeny, known for her roles in films like "Pacific Rim: Uprising" and "Priscilla."
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Norman noble
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medieval noble ⓘ member of the Hauteville family ⓘ noblewoman ⓘ |
| centuryOfActivity | 11th century ⓘ |
| childOf |
Fressenda
self-linksurface differs
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Fressenda self-linksurface differs ⓘ Fressenda self-linksurface differs ⓘ Fressenda self-linksurface differs ⓘ Fressenda self-linksurface differs ⓘ Fressenda self-linksurface differs ⓘ Fressenda self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Duchy of Normandy ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Norman ⓘ |
| familyName | Hauteville ⓘ |
| hasDescendant |
Bohemond I of Antioch
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Norman rulers of Sicily ⓘ Norman rulers of southern Italy ⓘ Roger II of Sicily ⓘ |
| hasRole |
dynastic matriarch
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noble consort ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being mother of Norman conquerors in Italy and Sicily
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being wife of Tancred of Hauteville ⓘ |
| languageSpoken | Old Norman ⓘ |
| livedIn | 11th-century Normandy ⓘ |
| motherOf |
Tancred of Hauteville
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surface form:
Alberic of Hauteville
Geoffrey of Hauteville ⓘ Humbert of Hauteville ⓘ Mauger of Hauteville ⓘ Robert Guiscard ⓘ Roger I of Sicily ⓘ William of the Principate ⓘ |
| nobleFamily |
Hauteville dynasty
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surface form:
Hauteville family
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| notableFor |
matriarch of the Norman rulers in Sicily
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matriarch of the Norman rulers in southern Italy ⓘ |
| partOf |
Norman expansion
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surface form:
Norman expansion in Sicily
Norman expansion ⓘ
surface form:
Norman expansion in southern Italy
|
| regionOfOrigin | Normandy ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
ⓘ
surface form:
Catholic Church
|
| residence | Normandy ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | female ⓘ |
| spouse |
Fressenda
self-linksurface differs
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Tancred of Hauteville ⓘ |
| spouseOfNobleHouse |
Hauteville dynasty
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surface form:
House of Hauteville
|
| timePeriod | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
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: Fressenda Description of subject: Fressenda was an 11th-century Norman noblewoman of the Hauteville family, notable as the wife of Tancred of Hauteville and a matriarch of the Norman rulers in southern Italy and Sicily.
Referenced by (10)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Tancred of Hauteville
subject surface form:
Mauger of Hauteville
subject surface form:
William of the Principate
subject surface form:
Alberic of Hauteville
subject surface form:
Geoffrey of Hauteville
subject surface form:
Humbert of Hauteville