Barbara Zápolya
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Barbara Zápolya was a Polish queen consort of Hungarian noble origin, best known as the first wife of King Sigismund I the Old of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Barbara Zápolya canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T3727745 — 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: Barbara Zápolya Context triple: [Sigismund I the Old, spouse, Barbara Zápolya]
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A.
Mary of Hungary
Mary of Hungary was a 16th-century Habsburg archduchess who served as Queen of Hungary and later as the influential governor of the Habsburg Netherlands.
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B.
Kinga of Hungary
Kinga of Hungary was a 13th-century Hungarian princess who became Duchess of Kraków and Sandomierz, renowned for her piety, charitable works, and later canonization as a Catholic saint.
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C.
Mary, Queen of Hungary
Mary, Queen of Hungary was a 14th-century monarch of Hungary and Croatia from the Angevin dynasty who ruled in her own right and played a key role in Central European dynastic politics.
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D.
Barbara of Cilli
Barbara of Cilli was a 15th-century queen consort of Hungary and Holy Roman Empress known for her political influence, substantial wealth, and later reputation as a powerful and controversial noblewoman in Central Europe.
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E.
Constance of Hungary
Constance of Hungary was a 13th-century Hungarian princess of the Árpád dynasty who became Queen consort of Galicia–Volhynia through her marriage to Leo I of Galicia.
- 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: Barbara Zápolya Target entity description: Barbara Zápolya was a Polish queen consort of Hungarian noble origin, best known as the first wife of King Sigismund I the Old of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
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A.
Mary of Hungary
Mary of Hungary was a 16th-century Habsburg archduchess who served as Queen of Hungary and later as the influential governor of the Habsburg Netherlands.
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B.
Kinga of Hungary
Kinga of Hungary was a 13th-century Hungarian princess who became Duchess of Kraków and Sandomierz, renowned for her piety, charitable works, and later canonization as a Catholic saint.
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C.
Mary, Queen of Hungary
Mary, Queen of Hungary was a 14th-century monarch of Hungary and Croatia from the Angevin dynasty who ruled in her own right and played a key role in Central European dynastic politics.
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D.
Barbara of Cilli
Barbara of Cilli was a 15th-century queen consort of Hungary and Holy Roman Empress known for her political influence, substantial wealth, and later reputation as a powerful and controversial noblewoman in Central Europe.
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E.
Constance of Hungary
Constance of Hungary was a 13th-century Hungarian princess of the Árpád dynasty who became Queen consort of Galicia–Volhynia through her marriage to Leo I of Galicia.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hungarian noble
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Polish queen consort ⓘ noblewoman ⓘ queen consort ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Polish–Lithuanian union
ⓘ
surface form:
Polish–Lithuanian monarchy
|
| birthPlace |
Kingdom of Hungary
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Trencsén County ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Wawel Cathedral ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Kingdom of Hungary ⓘ |
| deathPlace |
Kingdom of Poland
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Kraków ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Hungarian ⓘ |
| father | Stephen Zápolya ⓘ |
| givenName | Barbara ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
Hungarian
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Polish ⓘ |
| memberOf | House of Zápolya ⓘ |
| mother |
Hedwig of Silesia
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surface form:
Hedwig of Cieszyn
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| nobleFamily | Zápolya family ⓘ |
| nobleTitle | Countess ⓘ |
| notableFor | being the first wife of Sigismund I the Old ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Grand Duchess consort of Lithuania
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Queen consort of Poland ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| residence |
Kraków
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Wawel Royal Castle ⓘ
surface form:
Wawel Castle
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| spouse | Sigismund I the Old ⓘ |
| spouseOfMonarchTitle |
Grand Duke of Lithuania
ⓘ
King of Poland ⓘ |
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: Barbara Zápolya Description of subject: Barbara Zápolya was a Polish queen consort of Hungarian noble origin, best known as the first wife of King Sigismund I the Old of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.