Charles VI of France
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Charles VI of France was a late 14th- and early 15th-century French king whose reign was marked by bouts of mental illness and significant turmoil during the Hundred Years’ War.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Charles VI of France canonical | 25 |
| King Charles VI of France | 5 |
| Charles VI | 1 |
| Charles VI "the Mad" | 1 |
| Charles VI, King of France | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1570532 — 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: Charles VI of France Context triple: [House of Valois, notableMember, Charles VI of France]
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Charles V of France
Charles V of France was a 14th-century French king known for restoring royal authority, reorganizing the kingdom’s finances and administration, and successfully reversing many of the English gains in the Hundred Years’ War.
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Charles IV of France
Charles IV of France was the last Capetian king of France, whose death in 1328 ended the direct male line of the House of Capet and helped trigger the Hundred Years' War.
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Philippe de France
Philippe de France was a 17th-century French prince, the younger brother of King Louis XIV, who held the title Duke of Orléans and played a significant role in the politics and court life of the Ancien Régime.
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Louis de France
Louis de France, known as the Grand Dauphin, was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Louis XIV of France who predeceased his father and never ascended the throne.
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John II of France
John II of France was a 14th-century King of France whose troubled reign was marked by military defeats and his own capture during the early phases of the Hundred Years' War.
- 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: Charles VI of France Target entity description: Charles VI of France was a late 14th- and early 15th-century French king whose reign was marked by bouts of mental illness and significant turmoil during the Hundred Years’ War.
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A.
Charles V of France
Charles V of France was a 14th-century French king known for restoring royal authority, reorganizing the kingdom’s finances and administration, and successfully reversing many of the English gains in the Hundred Years’ War.
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B.
Charles IV of France
Charles IV of France was the last Capetian king of France, whose death in 1328 ended the direct male line of the House of Capet and helped trigger the Hundred Years' War.
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C.
Philippe de France
Philippe de France was a 17th-century French prince, the younger brother of King Louis XIV, who held the title Duke of Orléans and played a significant role in the politics and court life of the Ancien Régime.
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D.
Louis de France
Louis de France, known as the Grand Dauphin, was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Louis XIV of France who predeceased his father and never ascended the throne.
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E.
John II of France
John II of France was a 14th-century King of France whose troubled reign was marked by military defeats and his own capture during the early phases of the Hundred Years' War.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (51)
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: Charles VI of France Description of subject: Charles VI of France was a late 14th- and early 15th-century French king whose reign was marked by bouts of mental illness and significant turmoil during the Hundred Years’ War.
Referenced by (33)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
King Charles VI of France
subject surface form:
Louis I, Duke of Orléans
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Charles VI of France
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this entity surface form:
King Charles VI of France
this entity surface form:
King Charles VI of France
this entity surface form:
King Charles VI of France
this entity surface form:
Charles VI
this entity surface form:
Charles VI, King of France
this entity surface form:
Charles VI "the Mad"
this entity surface form:
King Charles VI of France