Henry IV of France
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Henry IV of France was the first Bourbon king of France, known for ending the French Wars of Religion, converting to Catholicism for political unity, and issuing the Edict of Nantes to grant limited rights to Protestants.
All labels observed (11)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Henry IV of France canonical | 119 |
| Henry of Navarre | 20 |
| Henri IV | 4 |
| Henri IV of France | 2 |
| Henri de Navarre | 2 |
| King Henry IV of France | 2 |
| Henri Quatre | 1 |
| Henry IV of France as a tolerant ruler | 1 |
| Henry IV, King of France and Navarre | 1 |
| Henry, King of Navarre | 1 |
| King of France and Navarre | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T243624 — 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: Henry IV of France Context triple: [Histoire des guerres civiles de France, describesReignOf, Henry IV of France]
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A.
Philip II of France
Philip II of France was the Capetian king who greatly expanded French royal power and territory in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, notably at the expense of the English crown.
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B.
King Louis XIII
King Louis XIII was the early 17th-century King of France whose reign, marked by the influence of Cardinal Richelieu and the consolidation of royal power, provides the political backdrop for Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers.
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C.
Henry III of France
Henry III of France was a 16th-century French king whose turbulent reign was marked by the Wars of Religion, intense conflict between Catholics and Huguenots, and his eventual assassination.
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D.
Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV of France was the long-reigning “Sun King” who centralized absolute monarchy, expanded French influence in Europe, and made his court at Versailles a model of royal splendor.
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E.
Louis XVI of France
Louis XVI of France was the last Bourbon king before the French Revolution, whose reign saw France’s crucial support for the American Revolution and ended with his execution in 1793.
- 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: Henry IV of France Target entity description: Henry IV of France was the first Bourbon king of France, known for ending the French Wars of Religion, converting to Catholicism for political unity, and issuing the Edict of Nantes to grant limited rights to Protestants.
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A.
Philip II of France
Philip II of France was the Capetian king who greatly expanded French royal power and territory in the late 12th and early 13th centuries, notably at the expense of the English crown.
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B.
King Louis XIII
King Louis XIII was the early 17th-century King of France whose reign, marked by the influence of Cardinal Richelieu and the consolidation of royal power, provides the political backdrop for Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers.
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C.
Henry III of France
Henry III of France was a 16th-century French king whose turbulent reign was marked by the Wars of Religion, intense conflict between Catholics and Huguenots, and his eventual assassination.
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D.
Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV of France was the long-reigning “Sun King” who centralized absolute monarchy, expanded French influence in Europe, and made his court at Versailles a model of royal splendor.
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E.
Louis XVI of France
Louis XVI of France was the last Bourbon king before the French Revolution, whose reign saw France’s crucial support for the American Revolution and ended with his execution in 1793.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (55)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Bourbon monarch
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King of France ⓘ human ⓘ monarch ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Good King Henry
ⓘ
Henry IV of France ⓘ
surface form:
Henri IV
Antoine of Navarre ⓘ
surface form:
Henri de Bourbon
Henry IV of France ⓘ
surface form:
Henri de Navarre
Henry IV of France ⓘ
surface form:
Henry of Navarre
Good King Henry ⓘ
surface form:
le bon roi Henri
|
| birthDate | 1553-12-13 ⓘ |
| birthPlace |
Pau
ⓘ
surface form:
Pau, Kingdom of Navarre
|
| burialPlace | Basilica of Saint-Denis ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | assassination ⓘ |
| child |
Christine of France
ⓘ
Elisabeth of France ⓘ Gaston, Duke of Orléans ⓘ Henrietta Maria of France ⓘ King Louis XIII ⓘ
surface form:
Louis XIII of France
|
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of France
ⓘ
Kingdom of Navarre ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1610-05-14 ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Paris
ⓘ
surface form:
Paris, Kingdom of France
|
| dynastyFounded |
House of Bourbon
ⓘ
surface form:
Bourbon dynasty of France
|
| era |
Early Modern period
ⓘ
surface form:
Early modern period
|
| event |
French Wars of Religion
ⓘ
War of the Three Henrys ⓘ |
| father | Antoine of Navarre ⓘ |
| givenName | Henry ⓘ |
| killer | François Ravaillac ⓘ |
| knownFor |
converting to Catholicism for political unity
ⓘ
economic reconstruction of France ⓘ ending the French Wars of Religion ⓘ issuing the Edict of Nantes ⓘ promoting religious toleration for Protestants ⓘ restoring royal authority in France ⓘ |
| languageSpoken |
French
ⓘ
Occitan ⓘ |
| mannerOfDeath | murdered ⓘ |
| mother |
Jeanne d’Albret
ⓘ
surface form:
Jeanne d'Albret
|
| nobleFamily | House of Bourbon ⓘ |
| notableQuote | Paris is well worth a Mass ⓘ |
| notableWork | Edict of Nantes ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
King of France
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King of Navarre ⓘ |
| predecessor | Henry III of France ⓘ |
| reignEnd | 1610-05-14 ⓘ |
| reignStart | 1589-08-02 ⓘ |
| religion |
Calvinism
ⓘ
Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| spouse |
Margaret of Valois
ⓘ
Marie de’ Medici ⓘ
surface form:
Marie de' Medici
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| successor |
King Louis XIII
ⓘ
surface form:
Louis XIII of France
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| title |
Henry IV of France
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Henry IV, King of France and Navarre
Henry IV of France self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Henry, King of Navarre
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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: Henry IV of France Description of subject: Henry IV of France was the first Bourbon king of France, known for ending the French Wars of Religion, converting to Catholicism for political unity, and issuing the Edict of Nantes to grant limited rights to Protestants.
Referenced by (154)
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this entity surface form:
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this entity surface form:
Henri Quatre
this entity surface form:
Henry of Navarre
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Maximilien de Béthune
subject surface form:
Maximilien de Béthune
subject surface form:
Maximilien de Béthune
subject surface form:
Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne
subject surface form:
Jeanne d’Albret
this entity surface form:
Henri IV of France
this entity surface form:
Henry of Navarre
this entity surface form:
Henry of Navarre
this entity surface form:
Henry of Navarre
subject surface form:
Château Gaillard
this entity surface form:
Henry of Navarre
subject surface form:
House of Bourbon
this entity surface form:
Henri IV
this entity surface form:
Henry of Navarre
this entity surface form:
Henri de Navarre