Hildegard
E147610
Hildegard is a Germanic female given name, historically borne by several notable medieval figures, most famously the mystic and polymath Hildegard of Bingen.
All labels observed (10)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1299625 — 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: Hildegard Context triple: [Hilda, relatedToName, Hildegard]
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A.
Hildegard Hamm-Brücher
Hildegard Hamm-Brücher was a prominent German liberal politician and long-serving member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), known for her advocacy of democratic reforms and education policy in postwar Germany.
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B.
Saint Elizabeth
Saint Elizabeth is a biblical figure known as the mother of John the Baptist and a relative of the Virgin Mary, revered for her faith and role in the events preceding Jesus’s birth.
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C.
Judith of Évreux
Judith of Évreux was a Norman noblewoman of the House of Évreux who became Countess of Sicily through her marriage into the ruling Hauteville dynasty.
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D.
Matilda of Tuscany
Matilda of Tuscany was an influential 11th-century Italian noblewoman and military leader who played a key role in supporting the papacy against the Holy Roman Emperors during the Investiture Controversy.
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E.
Maud du Puy
Maud du Puy was an American-born socialite who became part of the prominent Darwin family through her marriage to the English astronomer and mathematician George Howard Darwin.
- 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: Hildegard Target entity description: Hildegard is a Germanic female given name, historically borne by several notable medieval figures, most famously the mystic and polymath Hildegard of Bingen.
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A.
Hildegard Hamm-Brücher
Hildegard Hamm-Brücher was a prominent German liberal politician and long-serving member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP), known for her advocacy of democratic reforms and education policy in postwar Germany.
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B.
Saint Elizabeth
Saint Elizabeth is a biblical figure known as the mother of John the Baptist and a relative of the Virgin Mary, revered for her faith and role in the events preceding Jesus’s birth.
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C.
Judith of Évreux
Judith of Évreux was a Norman noblewoman of the House of Évreux who became Countess of Sicily through her marriage into the ruling Hauteville dynasty.
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D.
Matilda of Tuscany
Matilda of Tuscany was an influential 11th-century Italian noblewoman and military leader who played a key role in supporting the papacy against the Holy Roman Emperors during the Investiture Controversy.
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E.
Maud du Puy
Maud du Puy was an American-born socialite who became part of the prominent Darwin family through her marriage to the English astronomer and mathematician George Howard Darwin.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (39)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Germanic given name
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female given name ⓘ given name ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
German medieval nobility
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medieval Christian mysticism ⓘ |
| category |
Feminine given names
ⓘ
German feminine given names ⓘ |
| cognate |
Hildegard
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Hildegarda
Hildegard self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hildegardis
|
| culturalAssociation |
mysticism
ⓘ
piety ⓘ scholarship ⓘ |
| etymologyFrom |
Old High German "gard" (enclosure, protection)
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Old High German "hiltja" (battle) ⓘ |
| gender | feminine ⓘ |
| hasPartEtymology |
gard
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hild ⓘ |
| historicalPopularity | medieval Europe ⓘ |
| languageOfOrigin | Germanic languages ⓘ |
| languageOfUse | German ⓘ |
| meaning |
battle enclosure
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battle guard ⓘ protection in battle ⓘ |
| nameDay | varies by country ⓘ |
| notableBearer |
Hildegard
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Hildegard of Bingen (Saint Hildegard)
Hildegard of Vinzgouw ⓘ |
| notableBearerDescription |
Hildegard
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Hildegard of Bingen was a 12th-century German Benedictine abbess, mystic, composer, and polymath
Hildegard of Vinzgouw ⓘ
surface form:
Hildegard of Vinzgouw was the wife of Charlemagne
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| regionOfUsage |
Austria
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Germany ⓘ Switzerland ⓘ |
| script | Latin alphabet ⓘ |
| shortForm | Hilde ⓘ |
| usagePeriod | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| usageTrend | less common in contemporary naming ⓘ |
| variantForm |
Hildegard
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Hildegarde
Hildegard self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Ildegarda
Hildegard self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Ildegardis
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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: Hildegard Description of subject: Hildegard is a Germanic female given name, historically borne by several notable medieval figures, most famously the mystic and polymath Hildegard of Bingen.
Referenced by (18)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Hildegard of the Vinzgau
this entity surface form:
Hildegard of Bingen
this entity surface form:
Hildegarde
this entity surface form:
Ildegarda
this entity surface form:
Ildegardis
this entity surface form:
Hildegard of Bingen
this entity surface form:
Hildegard of Bingen was a 12th-century German Benedictine abbess, mystic, composer, and polymath
this entity surface form:
Hildegard of Bingen (Saint Hildegard)
subject surface form:
Hildegard Hamm-Brücher