Robert the Old
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Robert the Old was an 11th-century French nobleman who became a prominent early duke of Burgundy and a key figure in the Capetian dynasty’s consolidation of power.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Robert II | 1 |
| Robert the Old canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1811393 — 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: Robert the Old Context triple: [Duke of Burgundy, firstHolder, Robert the Old]
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A.
William II of Scotland
William II of Scotland, better known as William III of England, was the Dutch-born Protestant prince who came to the British throne in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and ruled jointly with his wife Mary II.
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B.
David I of Scotland
David I of Scotland was a 12th-century King of Scots whose reign is noted for extensive ecclesiastical reform, feudal modernization, and the founding of numerous monasteries that reshaped medieval Scottish society.
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C.
Stephen of England
Stephen of England was a 12th-century King of England whose contested reign during the civil war known as The Anarchy pitted him against Empress Matilda in a struggle for the English crown.
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D.
William I of Scotland
William I of Scotland, also known as William the Lion, was a 12th–13th century King of Scots whose long reign was marked by efforts to assert Scottish independence from English overlordship.
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E.
Geoffrey V Plantagenet
Geoffrey V Plantagenet was a 12th-century French nobleman, husband of Empress Matilda and father of King Henry II of England, whose marriage helped lay the foundations of the Angevin Empire.
- 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: Robert the Old Target entity description: Robert the Old was an 11th-century French nobleman who became a prominent early duke of Burgundy and a key figure in the Capetian dynasty’s consolidation of power.
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A.
William II of Scotland
William II of Scotland, better known as William III of England, was the Dutch-born Protestant prince who came to the British throne in the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and ruled jointly with his wife Mary II.
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B.
David I of Scotland
David I of Scotland was a 12th-century King of Scots whose reign is noted for extensive ecclesiastical reform, feudal modernization, and the founding of numerous monasteries that reshaped medieval Scottish society.
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C.
Stephen of England
Stephen of England was a 12th-century King of England whose contested reign during the civil war known as The Anarchy pitted him against Empress Matilda in a struggle for the English crown.
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D.
William I of Scotland
William I of Scotland, also known as William the Lion, was a 12th–13th century King of Scots whose long reign was marked by efforts to assert Scottish independence from English overlordship.
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E.
Geoffrey V Plantagenet
Geoffrey V Plantagenet was a 12th-century French nobleman, husband of Empress Matilda and father of King Henry II of England, whose marriage helped lay the foundations of the Angevin Empire.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (36)
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: Robert the Old Description of subject: Robert the Old was an 11th-century French nobleman who became a prominent early duke of Burgundy and a key figure in the Capetian dynasty’s consolidation of power.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Robert II