Late Middle Ages
E16288
The Late Middle Ages was the final phase of medieval European history, marked by social upheaval, the Black Death, the Hundred Years’ War, and the transition toward the Renaissance.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Late Middle Ages canonical | 804 |
| late Middle Ages | 19 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T135028 — 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: Late Middle Ages Context triple: [Middle Ages, hasPart, Late Middle Ages]
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High Middle Ages
The High Middle Ages was a period of European history, roughly from the 11th to the 13th century, marked by population growth, the rise of powerful monarchies, flourishing trade and towns, and significant cultural and intellectual revival.
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Middle Ages
The Middle Ages was a period of European history from roughly the 5th to the late 15th century, marked by feudalism, the rise of Christianity, and the formation of many modern European cultures and languages.
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Renaissance
The Renaissance was a transformative European cultural movement from the 14th to 17th centuries marked by a revival of classical learning, flourishing arts, and major advances in science and humanist thought.
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Early Modern period
The Early Modern period was a transformative era from roughly the late 15th to the late 18th century marked by global exploration, the rise of powerful nation-states, religious upheavals, and the beginnings of modern science and capitalism.
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Avignon Papacy
The Avignon Papacy was a period in the 14th century when the popes resided in Avignon rather than Rome, significantly shaping medieval church politics and contributing to later crises like the Western Schism.
- 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: Late Middle Ages Target entity description: The Late Middle Ages was the final phase of medieval European history, marked by social upheaval, the Black Death, the Hundred Years’ War, and the transition toward the Renaissance.
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A.
High Middle Ages
The High Middle Ages was a period of European history, roughly from the 11th to the 13th century, marked by population growth, the rise of powerful monarchies, flourishing trade and towns, and significant cultural and intellectual revival.
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B.
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages was a period of European history from roughly the 5th to the late 15th century, marked by feudalism, the rise of Christianity, and the formation of many modern European cultures and languages.
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C.
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a transformative European cultural movement from the 14th to 17th centuries marked by a revival of classical learning, flourishing arts, and major advances in science and humanist thought.
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D.
Early Modern period
The Early Modern period was a transformative era from roughly the late 15th to the late 18th century marked by global exploration, the rise of powerful nation-states, religious upheavals, and the beginnings of modern science and capitalism.
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E.
Avignon Papacy
The Avignon Papacy was a period in the 14th century when the popes resided in Avignon rather than Rome, significantly shaping medieval church politics and contributing to later crises like the Western Schism.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (99)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
historical period
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phase of Middle Ages ⓘ |
| continent | Europe ⓘ |
| country | various European states ⓘ |
| endTime | c. 1500 ⓘ |
| follows | High Middle Ages ⓘ |
| hasCharacteristic |
changes in agricultural practices
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crisis of medieval institutions ⓘ cultural innovation ⓘ decline of papal authority ⓘ demographic decline ⓘ development of banking and credit ⓘ economic contraction in many regions ⓘ emergence of early Renaissance humanism ⓘ expansion of European maritime exploration ⓘ growth of courtly culture ⓘ growth of literacy ⓘ increased contact with the Islamic world ⓘ increasing use of vernacular languages ⓘ intensification of class conflict ⓘ military transformation ⓘ political instability ⓘ religious conflict ⓘ rise of powerful territorial states ⓘ shifts in landholding patterns ⓘ widespread social upheaval ⓘ |
| hasMajorEvent |
Albigensian Crusade
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Avignon Papacy ⓘ Avignon Papacy ⓘ
surface form:
Avignon residency of the papacy
Battle of Agincourt ⓘ Battle of Crécy ⓘ Battle of Grunwald ⓘ Battle of Kosovo 1389 ⓘ Battle of Nicopolis ⓘ Battle of Crécy ⓘ
surface form:
Battle of Poitiers
Battle of Varna ⓘ Black Death ⓘ Burgundian Wars ⓘ Ciompi Revolt ⓘ Council of Basel ⓘ Council of Constance ⓘ Council of Florence ⓘ Council of Pisa ⓘ Fall of Constantinople 1453 AD ⓘ
surface form:
Fall of Constantinople
Reconquista ⓘ
surface form:
Fall of Granada
Great Famine of 1315–1317 ⓘ Western Schism ⓘ
surface form:
Great Schism
Hundred Years' War ⓘ Hussite movement ⓘ
surface form:
Hussite Wars
Jacquerie ⓘ Jewish expulsions from Western European kingdoms ⓘ Ottoman expansion into the Balkans ⓘ Peasants' Revolt of 1381 ⓘ Age of Exploration ⓘ
surface form:
Portuguese Age of Discovery
Reconquista ⓘ Wars of the Roses ⓘ Western Schism ⓘ centralization of royal administrations ⓘ codification of customary law ⓘ construction of Gothic cathedrals ⓘ crisis of the feudal system ⓘ decline of chivalric warfare ⓘ decline of knightly cavalry dominance ⓘ development of early Renaissance art ⓘ development of late Gothic architecture ⓘ development of longbow tactics ⓘ early witch persecutions ⓘ expansion of trade networks ⓘ fall of the Byzantine Empire ⓘ growth of merchant capitalism ⓘ growth of towns and cities ⓘ growth of universities in Europe ⓘ introduction of gunpowder weapons in Europe ⓘ invention of the printing press ⓘ mystical religious movements ⓘ papal–imperial conflicts ⓘ persecution of heretical movements ⓘ plague outbreaks in Europe ⓘ religious dissent ⓘ rise of Muscovy ⓘ rise of guilds ⓘ rise of humanism ⓘ rise of national identities in Europe ⓘ rise of powerful monarchies in Western Europe ⓘ rise of standing armies ⓘ rise of the Hanseatic League ⓘ rise of the Ottoman Empire ⓘ rise of the Swiss Confederacy ⓘ scholastic philosophy ⓘ social unrest among peasants ⓘ spread of the bubonic plague ⓘ spread of vernacular literature ⓘ transition toward the Renaissance ⓘ transition toward the early modern period ⓘ union of Poland and Lithuania ⓘ urban revolts in Flanders ⓘ voyages of Henry the Navigator ⓘ |
| partOf | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| startTime | c. 1300 ⓘ |
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: Late Middle Ages Description of subject: The Late Middle Ages was the final phase of medieval European history, marked by social upheaval, the Black Death, the Hundred Years’ War, and the transition toward the Renaissance.
Referenced by (823)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
subject surface form:
John of Montfort