William the Conqueror
E19075
William the Conqueror was the 11th-century Duke of Normandy who became the first Norman king of England after his victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
All labels observed (9)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| William the Conqueror canonical | 111 |
| William I of England | 41 |
| William the Bastard | 2 |
| Guillaume le Conquérant | 1 |
| Norman kings of England | 1 |
| William I of Normandy | 1 |
| William I, Duke of Normandy | 1 |
| William, Duke of Normandy | 1 |
| statue of William the Conqueror | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T81055 — 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 the Conqueror Context triple: [Westminster Abbey, firstCoronationHeld, William the Conqueror]
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A.
Duke of Normandy
The Duke of Normandy is the feudal title held by the British monarch in respect of the Channel Islands, reflecting their historic status separate from the United Kingdom.
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Edward the Confessor
Edward the Confessor was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon king of England whose pious reign and later canonization made him one of the last and most revered pre-Norman English monarchs.
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C.
Edward I of England
Edward I of England was a 13th–14th century English king known for his military campaigns in Wales and Scotland, legal and administrative reforms, and consolidation of royal authority.
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D.
Edward the Exile
Edward the Exile was an Anglo-Saxon prince of the House of Wessex and heir to the English throne who spent most of his life in exile before briefly returning to England shortly before his death.
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E.
King John of England
King John of England was the early 13th-century English monarch whose reign was marked by military failures, heavy taxation, and baronial rebellion that led to the sealing of Magna Carta in 1215.
- 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 the Conqueror Target entity description: William the Conqueror was the 11th-century Duke of Normandy who became the first Norman king of England after his victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
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A.
Duke of Normandy
The Duke of Normandy is the feudal title held by the British monarch in respect of the Channel Islands, reflecting their historic status separate from the United Kingdom.
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B.
Edward the Confessor
Edward the Confessor was an 11th-century Anglo-Saxon king of England whose pious reign and later canonization made him one of the last and most revered pre-Norman English monarchs.
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C.
Edward I of England
Edward I of England was a 13th–14th century English king known for his military campaigns in Wales and Scotland, legal and administrative reforms, and consolidation of royal authority.
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D.
Edward the Exile
Edward the Exile was an Anglo-Saxon prince of the House of Wessex and heir to the English throne who spent most of his life in exile before briefly returning to England shortly before his death.
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E.
King John of England
King John of England was the early 13th-century English monarch whose reign was marked by military failures, heavy taxation, and baronial rebellion that led to the sealing of Magna Carta in 1215.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
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 the Conqueror Description of subject: William the Conqueror was the 11th-century Duke of Normandy who became the first Norman king of England after his victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
Referenced by (160)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
William I of England
this entity surface form:
William I of England
this entity surface form:
William I of England
this entity surface form:
William I of England