Theodora Tocco
E37092
Theodora Tocco was a 15th-century noblewoman from the influential Tocco family who became the first wife of Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine emperor.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Theodora Tocco canonical | 6 |
| Maddalena Tocco | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T284710 — 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: Theodora Tocco Context triple: [Constantine XI Palaiologos, spouse, Theodora Tocco]
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Helena Dragaš
Helena Dragaš was a Serbian-born Byzantine empress and regent, best known as the mother of the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos, and later revered as Saint Hypomone in the Orthodox Church.
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B.
Paola Ruffo di Calabria
Paola Ruffo di Calabria is the Italian-born former Queen of the Belgians, wife of King Albert II and mother of King Philippe.
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C.
Ludovica
Ludovica is an Italian feminine given name, traditionally associated with nobility and derived from the same Germanic roots as names like Louise and Ludwig.
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D.
Marie de Esy
Marie de Esy was the birth name of Marie Mosquini, an American silent film actress best known for her work in Hal Roach comedies.
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E.
Eleonore d’Esmier d’Olbreuse
Eleonore d’Esmier d’Olbreuse was a French Huguenot noblewoman who became Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg and is remembered as the mother of Sophia Dorothea of Celle, the repudiated wife of King George I of Great Britain.
- 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: Theodora Tocco Target entity description: Theodora Tocco was a 15th-century noblewoman from the influential Tocco family who became the first wife of Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine emperor.
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A.
Helena Dragaš
Helena Dragaš was a Serbian-born Byzantine empress and regent, best known as the mother of the last Byzantine emperor, Constantine XI Palaiologos, and later revered as Saint Hypomone in the Orthodox Church.
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B.
Paola Ruffo di Calabria
Paola Ruffo di Calabria is the Italian-born former Queen of the Belgians, wife of King Albert II and mother of King Philippe.
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C.
Ludovica
Ludovica is an Italian feminine given name, traditionally associated with nobility and derived from the same Germanic roots as names like Louise and Ludwig.
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D.
Marie de Esy
Marie de Esy was the birth name of Marie Mosquini, an American silent film actress best known for her work in Hal Roach comedies.
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E.
Eleonore d’Esmier d’Olbreuse
Eleonore d’Esmier d’Olbreuse was a French Huguenot noblewoman who became Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg and is remembered as the mother of Sophia Dorothea of Celle, the repudiated wife of King George I of Great Britain.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (28)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Byzantine noble
ⓘ
historical figure ⓘ noblewoman ⓘ |
| century | 15th century ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Byzantine Empire ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1429 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Greek ⓘ |
| familyName | Tocco ⓘ |
| father | Leonardo II Tocco ⓘ |
| givenName | Theodora ⓘ |
| historicalEra | Late Byzantine period ⓘ |
| maritalStatus | married ⓘ |
| marriageTo | Constantine XI Palaiologos ⓘ |
| memberOf | Tocco family ⓘ |
| nobleFamily | Tocco ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Despoina of the Morea ⓘ |
| notableFor |
being first wife of Constantine XI Palaiologos
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connection between Tocco family and Palaiologos dynasty ⓘ |
| placeOfBurial | Mystras ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Mistra ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Helena Palaiologina
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surface form:
Despoina of the Morea
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| regionAssociatedWith |
Epirus
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Morea ⓘ |
| relative | Carlo I Tocco ⓘ |
| relativeByMarriage | Palaiologos dynasty ⓘ |
| religion |
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
ⓘ
surface form:
Eastern Orthodox Church
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| spouse | Constantine XI Palaiologos ⓘ |
| spouseOfTitle | last Byzantine emperor ⓘ |
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: Theodora Tocco Description of subject: Theodora Tocco was a 15th-century noblewoman from the influential Tocco family who became the first wife of Constantine XI Palaiologos, the last Byzantine emperor.
Referenced by (8)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Maddalena Tocco
this entity surface form:
Maddalena Tocco