Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
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Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, was a 19th-century German ruler of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the father of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse canonical | 20 |
| Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine | 4 |
| Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse | 1 |
| Ludwig IV. Großherzog von Hessen und bei Rhein | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T291575 — 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: Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse Context triple: [Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, father, Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse]
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Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria
Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria was a 19th-century Bavarian royal who effectively ruled the Kingdom of Bavaria as regent from 1886 to 1912, overseeing a period of political stability and cultural flourishing.
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Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick
Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick was an 18th-century Prussian field marshal renowned for leading Allied forces against the French in Western Germany during the Seven Years' War.
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Bernhard Leopold Friedrich Eberhard Julius Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter Prinz zur Lippe-Biesterfeld
Bernhard Leopold Friedrich Eberhard Julius Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter Prinz zur Lippe-Biesterfeld, better known as Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, was the German-born consort of Queen Juliana and a prominent, though sometimes controversial, figure in Dutch public life during the mid-20th century.
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Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, is the reigning monarch of Luxembourg who has served as the country's constitutional sovereign since 2000.
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Duke of Reichstadt
The Duke of Reichstadt was the title held by Napoleon II, the only legitimate son of Napoleon Bonaparte, who lived in exile at the Austrian court and became a symbolic figure for Bonapartist hopes in post-Napoleonic Europe.
- 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: Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse Target entity description: Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, was a 19th-century German ruler of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the father of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia.
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A.
Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria
Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria was a 19th-century Bavarian royal who effectively ruled the Kingdom of Bavaria as regent from 1886 to 1912, overseeing a period of political stability and cultural flourishing.
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B.
Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick
Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick was an 18th-century Prussian field marshal renowned for leading Allied forces against the French in Western Germany during the Seven Years' War.
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C.
Bernhard Leopold Friedrich Eberhard Julius Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter Prinz zur Lippe-Biesterfeld
Bernhard Leopold Friedrich Eberhard Julius Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter Prinz zur Lippe-Biesterfeld, better known as Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, was the German-born consort of Queen Juliana and a prominent, though sometimes controversial, figure in Dutch public life during the mid-20th century.
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D.
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, is the reigning monarch of Luxembourg who has served as the country's constitutional sovereign since 2000.
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E.
Duke of Reichstadt
The Duke of Reichstadt was the title held by Napoleon II, the only legitimate son of Napoleon Bonaparte, who lived in exile at the Austrian court and became a symbolic figure for Bonapartist hopes in post-Napoleonic Europe.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
How these facts were elicited
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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: Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse Description of subject: Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, was a 19th-century German ruler of the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the father of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia.
Referenced by (26)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Ludwig IV. Großherzog von Hessen und bei Rhein
this entity surface form:
Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
this entity surface form:
Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
this entity surface form:
Grand Duke Louis IV of Hesse
this entity surface form:
Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine
this entity surface form:
Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine